CARACTERIZANDO O GÊNERO ORAL MINISTRAÇÃO DA PALAVRA

Abstract

In this article, we start from the hypothesis that the Ministration of the word oral genre is intrinsically linked, in its use, to the genres Preaching of the word, Sermon and Homily. In order to understand how the discursive act, the mechanisms, and the strategies used by the pastors of an evangelical church in Uberlândia (Brazil) are organized, at the moment of the production of the Ministration of words genre, in this research, we present the characteristics of this genre. The criteria adopted for our analysis are based on Travaglia's theory (2007), which proposes the characterization of a type, genre or type of text through the use of five parameters, namely: the thematic content; the compositional structure; sociocommunicative objectives and/or functions; the characteristics of the linguistic surface and the conditions of production. We based the work also on another scholar, Fairclough (2001), from Critical Analysis of the Discourse, because we notice that the notion of subject is central in the proposal of evangelical discourse as a social practice. Among other findings, we verified that the Ministration of the word genre is not just a distinct name given by a religious community, what differs it from the other genres is the informal language and the great intimacy of the pastors with the public, when utilizing this genre.