The specificity of an interpretive discipline (Brazil’s Discourse Analysis): some notes

Abstract

Discourse analysis is a way of reading phenomena recorded in diuscourses and texts, which are located in the space of Discourse. In relation to language, discourse analysis shares specificities that translate the fact that syntactic runs are not limited to sentence scopes.. In this work, I propose to develop the sharing with archeology (derived from Michel Foucault’s assumptions, particularly the Archaeology of Knowledge work, published in 1969). Examples of this sharing are research by Nascimento (2011) and Gregolin and Mazzola (2012). These authors adopt the theoretical and methodological perspectives of Foucault and Pêcheux. Considering Pêcheux alerts about the transformations of political discourse and new materialities, this study shows some promising developments in the field of discourse in which several linguistic objects register as materiality: testimony (Nascimento, 2011) and charge, as well as painting (Gregolin and Mazzola, 2012). The relevance of the shares mentioned by Pêcheux ([1984a] 2011), which interest Discourse Analysis, promote interfaces with other disciplines that do contribute to the discourse field regarding its first assignment: reading and interpreting texts.

Keywords

• Discourse Analysis
• Foucault’s archaeology
• Pecheuxtian method
• New materialities