A REPRESENTAÇÃO DE JESUS CRISTO NO EVANGELHO DE JOÃO EM PORTUGUÊS E EM ESPANHOL

Abstract

From a linguistic perspective about the representation of Jesus as a Social Actor, this work analyses the lexicogrammatical choices in the Gospel of John as presented in the Trilingual Bible (New International Version) texts written in Spanish and Portuguese languages. The research is placed within the interface of Systemic Functional-Linguistics, the Social Actors Representation (VAN LEEUWEN, 1997) and Translation of Sensitive Texts. It investigates the forms of construction of realities in the texts in translation relation. Considering the short- length of the texts, the identification and tagging of socio-semantic categories were carried out manually using the subcategories of the Personalization and Impersonalization systems. The analyses revealed that Jesus Christ is mainly represented by Personalization, especially by Nomination and Functionalization in both languages. The comparison of results of analyses of both texts revealed that Jesus is more functionalized in the text in Spanish than in Portuguese. We argue that the human, rather than the divine, nature of Jesus is highlighted by the evangelist. The results also reveal different mechanisms of textual cohesion in Portuguese and Spanish.