Reflexões sobre a constituição da categoria de sujeito: um estudo a partir de Benveniste e Pêcheux

Abstract

This paper presents a study on the design of the proposed subject category by Émile Benveniste, an important area of theoretical linguistic studies, and Michel Pêcheux, a philosopher who was also concerned with issues of language. From this study, we seek to understand and carry out a contrastive analysis between what each author presents about the subject category and how his theories contributed to the development and improvement of linguistics, as well as for the production of knowledge within studies of Discourse Analysis. It is proposed the clarification guys to two theoretical notions by means of literature, so that we can propose the holding (discourse analysis) of the constitution of the subject category in textualities, more specifically, through the analysis of Mafalda strips and the Armandinho, authored by Quino and Alexandre Beck, respectively. The theoretical-methodological approach taken here follows the assumptions of Discourse Analysis (AD), as conceived by Michel Pêcheux, France, between 1968 and 1983 and as it has been developed by relevant researchers in Brazil over the past few decades.