Pragmalinguistics

an approach in the service of biblical exegesis

Abstract

This article aims to demonstrate how the progress of language sciences can contribute to illuminating communicative models more relevant to the study of Sacred Scripture. The methods called synchronic by the document of the Pontifical Biblical Commission of 1993, point, among others, to semiotics. The text of the document points to a vision, which is considered in this study, as a developer of structuralist research. Today, with the advancement of the notion of context within the scope of Pragmatics, the expansion of what is understood by text from Text Linguistics, and the focus on the interpretative dimension and production of meaning on the part of the reader, the contribution of sciences is demonstrated linguistics and communication for biblical exegesis. This contribution with a pragmatic-linguistic vision does not intend to neglect the classical steps of traditional exegesis, but contributes in a dialogical way to its opening to the hermeneutic dimension of sacred texts.