METADISCOURSE FUNCTIONS AND MARKERS IN CURRENT RELIGIOUS DISCOURSE (CATECHESIS)
METADISCOURSE FUNCTIONS AND MARKERS IN CURRENT RELIGIOUS DISCOURSE (CATECHESIS)

Summary/Abstract: This paper draws on the integrative view on argumentation proposed by Amossy (2010) and illustrates major features of catechetical discourse following an analysis of transcribed interactions. The practical part follows a theoretical line which combines current approaches to argumentation: linguistic, communicative, dialogic, generic, figurative and textual approaches. The dialogic approach is the starting point in the analysis of the functions which metadiscourse, seen as a part of dialogism, has in a particular type of preaching, that is, in catechesis. We propose to analyse these metadiscoursive forms building on the premise that with the employment of specific markers metadiscourse acquires new meanings and therefore allows for a functional analysis, closely related to various theoretical concepts on discourse, analysis of argumentation and ‘face to face’ interaction, and studies on plurisemiotic, multimodal, pluridimensional, multichannel communication. The analysis of metadiscourse functions will take into account not only verbal and paraverbal but also nonverbal material.

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