Efeitos de unidade e diversidade na escritura brasileira da história da língua portuguesa

Abstract

This study aims to analyze discursively the process of the Brazilian deed of the history of the Portuguese language, considering the deed like effect of the relation of the language with the history. Specifically, to understand the deed of the History of the Portuguese Language, we analyze the effects of unity and diversity on the Brazilian grammars, considering what are the effects of the (dis)continuity and deletion these discourses produce, and how they engender senses on language history. Thereunto, we have as research questions: (i) what are the effects of unity and diversity made in the deed of the Portuguese Language history in Brazil. (ii) What is the conception that this deed is affiliate? (iii) What politics of languages is hold for this deed of the Portuguese Language history? The file to this research is compound for a text of grammars written by Brazilian authors that approaches the history of Portuguese Language. To the analysis, we cut at the file, discursive sequences, in which are formed senses of unity and diversity of the language, senses of are analyzed for the filiation of the sequences to discursive and ideological formation. We conclude that the discourse of colonization is predominant. At the analyzed grammars work senses of a linguistic politic that homogenize the language, but this discourse does not work free of the contradiction, because, we understand that the discourse of decolonization works on the discourse of the colonizer and contrariwise. The research was conducted at the perspective of History of the Linguistic Ideas, articulated to Discourse Analysis developed, mainly, from the studies by Michel Pêcheux and Eni Orlandi.