The Diatribe in Meaning Making of Paul’s Letter to Romans

Abstract

In this work it was analized the diatribe in the meaning making of the Paul’s letter to Romans, focusing on the dialogical relations in its use in the enunciative construction of the letter. Thus, it dialogues with the enunciative language perspective from Bakhtin’s Circle, from a qualitative and interpretative approach. The analysis of the letter showed the occurrence of the diatribe materialized in the linguistic-enunciative elements that configure the rhetorical direct discourse. In terms of using this diatribical resource in meaning making, the letter reveals its internal dialogicity, veiled dialogue, the meeting of voices and discourses, materializing enunciatively recipients’ points of view. Therefore, meaning making settles down under bigger and smaller influence of the other and their anticipated response.