A translação de sentidos entre língua e classe social

Abstract

When it comes to say something about language, one is always saying something about the imaginary social class associated with that same language. Based on French Brazilian Discourse Analysis (inaugurated in France by Michel Pêcheux s group and revived in Brazil by Eni Orlandi) and analyzing different corpòra, took from grammars, dictionaries, newspaper manuals and Meia Hora de Notícias a newspaper from Rio de Janeiro , this dissertation seeks the comprehension of how the meanings about language and social class are established simultaneously. This Discourse Analysis with which we work presents itself as a field in between the social e human sciences. Among the main issues brought up by it are two illusory beliefs: the words would possess their own and crystal clear meanings, and the subjects would be the owners of their sayings and their intentions. In Discourse Analysis it s also said that meanings are inevitably set up by ideological processes, and that this also occurs in subject s formation, by unconscious processes that have to do with the historicity of social relations. By that, in order to understand how the meanings of language and social class relate, it s first a main question to comprehend the discursive functioning of the linguistic variation on instruments of grammaticalization. As to Meia Hora, we also intend to analyze in which way a newspaper works on the meanings of language and social class altogether, inserted in determinate practice, through the use of an imaginary language