Memória e discurso em práticas da Congregação para a Doutrina da Fé.

In this paper, we present the result from an analysis of the relation between meaning effects and memory effects in documents from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF), and we also discuss the image this Congregation produces of itself through its documentation. Therefore, we started from the concept of Discourse Memory, which is linked to the French School of Discourse Analysis (AD), especially concerning Michel Pêcheux works and the notion of ethos, as presented by Dominique Maingueneau (2008). Based on this theoretical-methodological framework, we analyzed the materialization of a discourse memory in the documentation from CDF. Such memory starts working in the relation with the actuality, and then, constituting a discursive event, through a game of resumptions and reconfigurations related to the modus operandi from the Inquisition. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]