Igreja e modelos alternativos de família: uma abordagem discursiva de base sistêmico-funcional à luz do sistema atitude da teoria da avaliatividade

Abstract

The Appraisal study — an approach to exploring, describing and explaining the way language is used to evaluate, to adopt stances, to construct textual persons and manage interpersonal positionings and relationships- provides a critical understanding of the complex of values,customs, beliefs and practices that constitute the life of a specific group. Thus, this paper presents an analysis, based on this study,the speech of Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, Pope Benedict XVI, making official the Catholic Church’s position in relation toalternative models of family. The objective then is to develop a critique about the implications of linguistic choices that define the evaluation of the pontiff. Despite a reassessment of theethical and theological stance to be adopted in relation to homosexuality, which some studies have pointed out, what is perceived mainly through judgments is resistance to any inclination for social recognition of alternative family forms.