Género y registro del evangelio de Marcos desde la perspectiva sociolingüística

Abstract

The identification of the literary genre of Mark’s gospel remains an open problem. The socio-linguistics provides tools such as the concepts of register, gender, style, etc., that can put light in this impasse. This article presents the synergetic relationship that is stablished when it is analyzed the register and the genre of Mark’s gospel. This relationship allows a better understanding of the social action that the evangelist wants to develop with his text in his community. There are different possible genres as candidates for the gospel of Mark, nevertheless it is proposed that the analysis and comparison of these genre must take into account the relationship established between the genre, the register and the style, in order to make a proposal about the gospel genre of Mark. The register of the gospel is presented as narrative, historical, religious and Jewish, and its genre is close to the historiography and biographies of antiquity. The connection of these two factors allows a better understanding of their gender and discarding other proposals.