“CENOGRAFIA EPISTOLARNO DISCURSO CONSTITUINTE TEOLÓGICO DE PAULO A FILÊMON

Abstract

This master’s degree dissertation has as its theme the study of the epistolary scenography in the theological self-constituting discourse of Paul to Philemon. The Epistle of Paul to Philemon is one of the books of the New Testament and it follows the Epistle to Titus, also considered a Pauline writing. We aim to analyze the epistolary scenography and the linguistic-discursive strategies that organize the functioning of the discourse to Philemon. We also seek to verify how the scenography, the discursive ethos and authority regimes are constituted and to identify the linguistic-discursive strategies used in/by the discourse to inaugurate a debate about slavery in Roman society. For the investigation of the proposed theme, we mobilized the theoreticalmethodological framework of the French Discourse Analysis (AD), based on the enunciativediscursive perspective proposed by Maingueneau (1997, 1998, 2000, 2007, 2008a, 2008b, 2008c, 2010, 2013, 2015a, 2015b, 2016a, 2016b, 2016c, 2016d, 2020), mainly on the notion of self-constituting discourses. These discourses give meaning to the acts of the collectivity and form other discourses. Moreover, in order to legitimize themselves, they function in two ways, they authorize themselves and other discourses. We also dialogue with the proposal by Nascimento (2020), which inserts the theological discourse in the category of constituent and, with theological and historical aspects of Hale (1983). In the analysis process, we operationalized the socio-historical and cultural conditions of the production of the epistolary discourse and we explored the categories of self-constituting discourses, paratopia, scenography and discursive ethos. The obtained results show that Paul invests in the construction of an epistolary scenography and discursively organizes the presentation of his position in relation to the practice of slavery, breaks with institutional standards of the time when he produced his discourses. And contributes to the emergence to distinctive concepts and values of the theological self-constituting discourse.