RELIGIOUS DISCOURSE IN THE EVANGELICAL CHRISTIAN CORDEL: A PARAPHRASTIC AND POLYSEMIC READING
Evangelical Christian Cordel; Evangelization; Discourse Analysis; Paraphrastic; Polysemic.
This dissertation, submitted to the Stricto Sensu Graduate Program in Linguistics at the State University of Mato Grosso, focuses on the area of Linguistic Process Studies, specifically in the research line of Discursive Process Studies. The explored theme is "Religious Discourse in Evangelical Christian Cordel: A Paraphrastic and Polysemic Reading." Grounded in the Discourse Analysis of Michel Pêcheux and Eni Orlandi, our study examines, in the Evangelical Christian Cordel, the ways in which meanings are produced in this language material that works with a discourse of oral tradition represented by writing, as an instrument of "pedagogization" of faith, of a community ideologically interpellated in its socio-historical context, pointing out how discursive functioning produces a given place as sacred, and another as profane, in the cordel narrative and in the text of the Bible. The research seeks to understand the relationship between language and society, aiming to discuss language, language memory, language variety and diversity, processes of signification, the study of text and discourse in language practices, and the importance of considering the notions of constitution, formulation, and circulation that are in the production of any discourse. Likewise, to understand how the circulation places of discourses alter their formulation and produce other effects, both for those who have access to these discourses, the interlocutor, and for the sender. Regarding the different ways of saying the same thing (polysemy), we observe the cordels and the ways in which they produce and mobilize meanings, as it is from the different circulation places that the formulation is also modified, such as the marks of orality present in the cordel, which do not appear in the text of the Bible.
Keywords: Evangelical Christian Cordel; Evangelization; Discourse Analysis; Paraphrastic; Polysemic.