The tasks of Brazilian linguistics: SCIENCE, HISTORY AND SOCIAL IDENTITY

Abstract

In this article, we analyze from the perspective of the Historiography of Linguistics characteristics of what was perceived as being a linguist in Brazil amidst the theoretical plurality of twentieth-century linguistics. Emphasis is given to the search for linguistic tasks, understood in specific ways to depend on the theoretical insertion of the linguist that defined perspectives for the performance in language science. For the elaboration of a historiographical interpretation, it is argued that one of the privileged perspectives to be adopted in a historical reconstruction of the science of language is one that places as an object of observation the rhetoric of the linguists in search of validation of their scientific practices.

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