As paixões retóricas na escolha do ministério sacerdotal

Abstract

This work, through textual/discursive genres, chooses the oral interview as a genre that will allow informants to provide the desired information. The objective is to seek, in the line of Rhetoric, understood as the art of persuasion through discourse, using the Aristotelian triad (ethos, pathos and logos), to analyze the informants according to the Aristotelian passions, highlighting what led them to the practice of ministry. In this way, it will be possible to detect whether the choice was made out of love, obedience, imitation, imposition (fear), or any other reasons, showing the power of the rhetorician in the vocational decision. The oral interview genre was chosen because orality helps in the efficiency of questions related to the spontaneity of expression and the use of non-formal language, as well as the expansion of latent emotions in each informant. The theoretical constructs that give focus to this work are those of Abreu (2009), Aristóteles (2011), Fávero; Andrade; Aquino (2003), Ferreira (2010/2020), Koch (2004), Marcuschi (2005), Meyer (2007), Mosca (2001), Perelman & Olbrechts-Tyteca (2014), Preti (2004), Reboul (2000), Santos; Dikson & Morais (2014), among others. The work followed a qualitative line, as the actions are developed in process and the researcher does not have the data provided a priori. In order to carry out the interviews, the availability of the three dioceses that make up the Ecclesiastical Province of Alagoas was sought, namely: Archdiocese of Maceió, Diocese of Penedo and Diocese of Palmeira dos Índios. The interviews were carried out by audio and then transcribed (MARCUSCHI, 2008; PRETI, 2004). The corpus consisted of two oral interviews and showed how result the strong power that the retor has in awakening the passions in the choice of ministry priestly. The results indicated thrugh oral interview that were found the Aristotelian passions, as fear, emulation, love, trust, among others in the priests speech. Its relevance is due to the fact that it presents possible clues in the sense that other elders and any other professionals can also present their feelings and her emotions never before revealed.