Joaquim Guerra e o debate às margens da tradução de Confúcio: marcas do discurso polêmico

Abstract

This paper aims at identifying marks of the controversial speech found in
Critical Notes from the translation of Chinese classics made by the Portuguese Jesuit Joaquin
Guerra (1908-1993). In the theoretical framework, in line with Bakhtin and Ducrot, it can be noticed how the dialogic and polyphonic contribute to the controversial speech. When
analyzing the corpus, there are two discursive strategies based on the degree or intensity of the arguments and on the ethos of the announcer-polemicist, here designated mild
refutations and energetic refutations. At the final considerations, we seek to identify the voices and motivations involved in the debate about the translation of the Confucian texts.