Science, Religion and Philosophy: the paratopia of kardecist spiritist discourse

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https://doi.org/10.26512/les.v20i1.19934

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Kardecist spiritist speech, Constitutional discourse, Paratopia, Spiritist medium

Abstract

In this paper, adopting the French Discourse Analysis perspective, with emphasis on Maingueneau's reflections on the notion of constituent discourse, we deal with some particularities of the constitution of kardecist spiritist discourse. More precisely, we try to demonstrate that, constituting itself from other constituent discourses (the religious, scientific and philosophical discourse), the kardecist spiritist discourse takes a paratopic position to legitimize itself, simulating to overcome the limits of these others discourses, what legitimizes it in a special way and gives it special authority. In addition, we analyze the figure of the "spiritist medium", considering it as a case of paratopia of identity, which also reinforces the paratopic condition of kardecist spiritist discourse as a constituent discourse.

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Author Biography

Anna Flora Brunelli, UNESP

Desde 1997 é professora da área de Língua Portuguesa do Departamento de Estudos Linguísticos e Literários do Instituto de Biociências, Letras e Ciências Exatas (IBILCE), da UNESP, Câmpus de São José do Rio Preto (SP). É mestre e doutora em Linguística pela UNICAMP, universidade em que realizou um estágio de pós-doutorado. Tem trabalho com a Análise do Discurso de linha francesa, especialmente com as reflexões desenvolvidas por Dominique Maingueneau. É membro do Centro de Pesquisa FEsTA ligado ao Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem da UNICAMP.

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2018-12-09

How to Cite

Brunelli, A. F., & da Silva, T. V. (2018). Science, Religion and Philosophy: the paratopia of kardecist spiritist discourse. Papers of Language and Society, 20(1), 2–18. https://doi.org/10.26512/les.v20i1.19934

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Vol. 20 No. 1 (2019)

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