História e memória na disciplinarização da ciência linguística no Brasil: um estudo a partir de entrevistas com linguistas

Abstract

This paper focuses on the production of linguistic knowledge in Brazil, a process which, from the middle of the 20th century, began to stimulate the institutionalization and disciplinary process of linguistic science in Brazil. There was the "import" of specialists from Germany, France and Portugal in the 1930s, the creation of important universities, an increase in the number of Brazilian Linguistics professors and the creation of Letters Courses, favouring the imminent growth of scientific production in the country, which was already in progress, even before we had Linguistics professors, and which continued with the organization and structuring of these studies, validating a disciplinarization, a work, therefore, of history and memory. In order to understand how this process took place and the historicization that initially involved the institutionalization of Linguistics, we took as our theoretical basis Discourse Analysis (DA) from a materialist perspective - founded by Michel Pêcheux in the 1960s and disseminated by Eni Orlandi in Brazil - in conjunction with the History of Linguistic Ideas (HIL). In order to answer our research question, which is to understand the role of memory in the disciplinarization of Linguistic Science in Brazil, we sought to analyze interviews with renowned researchers who played/play a fundamental role in the history and contributed/contribute to the development of linguistic studies: Aryon Dall'igna Rodrigues, Eduardo Guimarães, Eni P. Orlandi, Izidoro Blikstein, José Luiz Fiorin and Leonor Scliar. Based on the discourses of these researchers, through the remembrance that takes place as a result of their relationship with interdiscourse, in interviews prepared by researchers from the Corpus Laboratory - Laboratory of Language Studies Sources (Lab. Corp) - PPGL/UFSM and published by the journal Fragmentum (UFSM), we go in search of his formative pillars, in other words, his predecessors who are sometimes not given enough prominence in the history(s) of Brazilian linguistics, but who had as much merit as his disciples and students in developing a linguistics with its own characteristics, as well as in institutionalizing and disciplining it as a science.