Point of View and Topoi in 1 Corinthians 8
I Corinthians 8. Point of view. Modalities of PDV. Enunciative Postures. Topoi.
This paper studies the point of view (POV) in the Epistle of I Corinthians 8, written by the apostle Paul, based on the New Translation in today’s language, which is part of the Greek-Portuguese Interlinear New Testament. The general objective is to identify the POV of L1/E1 regarding the consumption of food offered to idols. As a theoretical framework, we rely on Adam's Textual Speech Analysis (2011) in dialogue with Speech Analysis and Enunciative Linguistics concerning points of view (Rabatel, 2016), Passeggi, Rodrigues and Silva and Neto (2016), Rodrigues (2021), the modalities of point of view and enunciative postures according to Rabatel (2016), and argumentative operators, from the perspective of Adam (2011), Koch (2011), Charaudeau (2019) and Amossy (2020). Regarding the specific objectives proposed: (i) to investigate how the PDVs (Points of Voice) reveal the voices present in the corpus; (ii) To investigate the role of argumentative operators in the affirmation of points of view.; (iii) to identify the modalities of the PDVs that emerge in the corpus; (iv) to identify the foundations in the text; (v) to analyze the positions resulting from the enunciative postures assumed by L1/E1 in the management and hierarchization of the propositional contents of the PDV. We adopted a qualitative methodology. We followed a mixed-methods analysis method, which allows the researcher, starting from previously defined categories based on defined theories, to make gradual adjustments and transformations to this initial set as they proceed with the examination of the corpus. The preliminary results reveal that at times there is an occurrence of collective enunciative responsibility, and at other times L1/E1 assumes enunciative responsibility before his interlocutors. to construct their PDV favorable to the edification of the church of Corinth through love. To that end, it mobilizes the topos of knowledge, love, relative ignorance, and the nullity of idols. Regarding argumentative operators, the most frequent were markers of strong arguments, namely, "but" and "however," highlighting counter-arguments, as well as the conditional operator "if," introducing hypotheses that aided in the construction of the point of view and revealed the predominance of the asserted point of view. Finally, we observed that L1/E1 alternates depending on its strategies.