The value of Saussure for discourse studies

• Main Authors: Carlos Piovezani, Allice Toledo Lima da Silveira
• Format: Article
• Language: Portuguese
• Published: Universidade Federal Fluminense 2017-12-01
• Series: Gragoatá
• Online Access: http://www.gragoata.uff.br/index.php/gragoata/article/view/1013

What is Saussure’s place in the constitution and developments of discourse studies? In order to reflect on what was said about him by some of his contemporaries and other thinkers in the first decades and the beginning of the second half of the twentieth century in Europe, we will not seek to answer this question without first exposing some of his contingencies and examining certain answers that could be given to it. In this regard, we will consider the different receptions of the Course in General Linguistics in France, from the initial moment of its publication to the end of the 1990s. We will then return to the reading that the Discourse Analysis did of Saussure's work in the late 1960s and in the early 1970s. With this in mind, we can make notes about the importance of the Course to Pêcheux and his group, either as a work that presents itself as a starting point or as a work to be refused.   --- DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.22409/gragoata.2017n44a1013