Um gesto de interpretação na história do conhecimento linguístico brasileiro: a definição do nome gramática

Abstract

The constitution of an interpretation gesture about the effects of the meanings of the definition of the name grammar related to the ways of knowing about language in the history of Brazilian linguistic knowledge is the objective of this thesis. Such research problematic was developed from a study on the definition of the name grammar in the first edition of Moderna Gramática Portuguêsa, by Evanildo Bechara and it s anchored on a theoretical conception of the interpretation gesture of the analyst subject position that makes History of Linguistic Ideas in Brazil. Bechara s grammar compendium was published in 1961, in a historic moment corresponding to the process of institutionalization of the discipline named Linguistics in courses of Letras in the country, which is a determinant effect of disruption of the definition of the name grammar in the aforementioned book when compared to other books on the process of Brazilian grammatisation. During the period of publication of Portuguese Grammars - from the sixteenth century until the mid-twentieth century -, the name grammar is determined by a relationship between the designations of grammar s art (portuguese or greco-latin) and of science, a designation constituted by forms of knowledge about language such as: General Grammar, Comparative Grammar, Historical Grammar and Modern Linguistics. For the production conditions of the publication of Bechara s Grammar, by a gesture of interpretation about the definition of the name grammar, we understand that there is an effect of breaking with a tradition of the art of portuguese grammar, because there is a reformulation of the definition of that name in the history of brazilian linguistic knowledge in the twentieth century which presentified the meanings of the definition of art from the latin grammar of Donatus (IV AD) and the art from Eduardo Carlos Pereira s Portuguese grammar for a relationship with a form of knowledge of the science named Linguistics, also designated as Linguistics Modern and determined by a theoretical perspective of linguists Ferdinand de Saussure, Edward Sapir and Joaquim Mattoso Junior in the Bechara s Grammar.