O diálogo inter-religioso de sua santidade o Dalai-Lama

Abstract

This study aims to find out how the writer relates to the reader and which are the strategies of persuasion adopted by him in a book of spiritual selfhelp. Taking into account the perspective of Askehave (2004), that consider the spiritual self-help as a genre and starting by the definition of Bakhtin (1992), who emphasizes the regularity of thematic , compositional and stylistic traces to characterize a genre. The research about the theme of spiritual self-help took into discussion the modern and post-modern topics and the characteristics of Budism.To the reflexion of the modern and post modern man, it was used the studies of Dumont (1985), Smart (1993), Bauman (1998) and Chagas (2001, 2002). To contribute with the description of the compositional aspects, it was selected Eggins (1996) and Askehave (2004), that have models of segmentation for the analysis of a whole book or to the texts that make part of it. In Charaudeau (2002) it was found the support for the description of the tecniques that reveal the style of the writer. To complete the model of Charaudeau (2002), it was used Kopple (1985), Fairclough (1994), Perelman and Olbrechts-Tyteca (1996), Reboul (2000) and Neves (2000). The results of the analysis showed a writer as a simple person and at the same time the one who knows the human needs, addressing to a reader that searches for happiness and interior peace. The themes through the analysis were revealed as related to the Budism sTen Perfections and to the situation of submission of Tibet to China. Through the analysis of the texts, it was noticed an author that was against the speed, the materialism and the individualism of modern and post modern life., advising the reader to put the Other as the target of the individual actions. The dialogue among religions was noticed through the preaching of the practice of compassion, kindness, love to the other, patience and forgiveness. To analyse the way of the organization of the texts, the attribution of titles to the messages and to the textual segmentations made possible to verify the procedures used by the author to spread his principles. In the presentation of concepts, vision and spiritual orientations, it was verified the recontextualization of strategies and metafors. In the application of Charaudeau s model related to the discursive strategies of the subject, it was noticed that the author uses different procedures of getting closer and farther of the audience.