I. Tertulian, reprezentant al latinei târzii şi al latinei vorbite de creştini...................................................

I. 1. Problematica limbii latinei a operei apologetului african..................................................................6

I. 2. Trăsături generale ale latinei lui Tertulian, comparativ cu latina clasică, postclasică
şi cu cea populară......................................................................................................................................7
un mai accentuat caracter personal-afectiv al limbajului...........................................................................7
caracterul pregnant figurat-simbolic şi metaforic al stilului creştin...........................................................7
libertatea relativă faţă normele gramatical-literare ale latinei clasice........................................................8
brahilogia...................................................................................................................................................8
marea varietate şi bogăţie a vocabularului.................................................................................................8
un semnificativ proces de abstractizare, precum şi o libertate şi
o abundenţă prodigioase ale derivării şi compunerii..................................................................................8
vitalitate şi efevescenţă creatoare...............................................................................................................8
o tensiune continuă între conservatorism şi spirit inovator, între arhaic şi neologic,
între naţional şi universal...........................................................................................................................9
distanţarea şi aparenta opoziţie faţă de latina clasică...............................................................................10
I. 3. Sermo Africus?..................................................................................................................................10
I. 4. Nivelul fonetic...................................................................................................................................11
I. 5. Nivelul morfologic............................................................................................................................12
I. 5. 1. Substantivul...................................................................................................................................12
I. 5. 2. Adjectivul......................................................................................................................................14
I. 5. 3. Pronumele.....................................................................................................................................14
I. 5. 4. Adverbul.......................................................................................................................................15
I. 5. 5. Prepoziţii, particule, preverbe.......................................................................................................16
I. 5. 6. Verbul...........................................................................................................................................17
I. 6. Nivelul sintactic................................................................................................................................19
I. 6. 1. Sintaxa cazurilor..........................................................................................................................20
I. 6. 1. 1. Acuzativul.................................................................................................................................20
I. 6. 1. 2. Genitivul...................................................................................................................................20
I. 6. 1. 3. Dativul......................................................................................................................................21
I. 6. 1. 4. Ablativul...................................................................................................................................21
I. 6. 2. Sintaxa frazei...............................................................................................................................22
I. 6. 2. 1.Construcţii infinitivale..............................................................................................................22
I. 6. 2. 2. Subordonatele completive.......................................................................................................22
I. 6. 2. 3. Subordonatele circumstanţiale.................................................................................................23
Subordonatele cauzale.............................................................................................................................23
Subordonatele condiţionale.....................................................................................................................23
Subordonatele finale................................................................................................................................24
Subordonatele consecutive......................................................................................................................24

II. Stilul lui Tertulian...............................................................................................................................25

II. 1. Stilul noii literaturi creştine latine..............................................................................................26

II. 2. "Le style c'est l'homme".................................................................................................................28
II. 2. 1. Compoziţia tratatelor.................................................................................................................29
II. 2. 2. Stilul lui Tertulian.....................................................................................................................30
II. 2. 2. 1. Asianismul.............................................................................................................................30
II. 2. 2. 2. Oralitatea şi filonul artistic popular.......................................................................................31
II. 2. 2. 3. Amprenta limbajului juridic.................................................................................................30
II. 2. 2. 4. Influenţa stilului biblic...........................................................................................................34
II. 2. 2. 5. Ironia, umorul, satira.............................................................................................................34
II. 2. 3. Figuri stilistice..........................................................................................................................36
II. 2. 3. 1. Aliteraţia şi alte figuri fonetice..............................................................................................36
II. 2. 3. 2. Anafora...................................................................................................................................37
II. 2. 3. 3. Asyndetonul...........................................................................................................................37
II. 2. 3. 4. Digresiunea, paranteza...........................................................................................................38
II. 2. 3. 5. Limbaj figurat, alegorie şi simbol.........................................................................................38
II. 2. 3. 6. Epanadiploza..........................................................................................................................39
II. 2. 3. 7. Metafora.................................................................................................................................40
II. 2. 3. 8. Metonimia...............................................................................................................................41
II. 2. 3. 9. Personificarea, prozopopeea...................................................................................................41
II. 2. 3.10. Repetiţia, redundanţa, pleonasmul ........................................................................................42

III. Tertulian şi retorica greco-romană...............................................................................................44

III. 1. Rhetorica antiqua et rhetorica christiana.................................................................................45

III. 2. Tertulian oratorul........................................................................................................................46
III. 2. 1. Strategii argumentative...........................................................................................................47
III. 2. 2. Rhetorica, ancilla theologiae...................................................................................................51
III. 2. 2. 1. Arta portretului ..................................................................................................................52
III. 2. 2. 2. Structura retorică a operei Ad Scapulam.............................................................................54

Concluzii...............................................................................................................................................63
"Ardoare punică şi pragmatism roman"................................................................................................64

Bibliografie selectivă.............................................................................................................................66
Lucrări generale.....................................................................................................................................66
Dicţionare şi enciclopedii......................................................................................................................67
Articole şi studii.....................................................................................................................................67
Internet links şi e-books.........................................................................................................................68