The theoretical affiliations of Brazilian process of grammatization: a History of Linguistic Ideas from the work of Julio Ribeiro

• Grant number: 12/20426-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate
• Start date: February 01, 2013
• End date: February 29, 2016
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Linguistics - Linguistic Theory and Analysis
• Principal Investigator: Carolina Maria Rodriguez Zuccolillo
• Grantee: José Edicarlos de Aquino
• Host Institution: Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem (IEL). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The object of our project are the theoretical affiliations of the process of Brazilian grammatization. From the field of History of Linguistic Ideas, which considers the constitutive relationship between metalinguistic knowledge of history and history of the language, our main objective is to analyze how a network of affiliations in the process of theoretical Brazilian grammatization of the work of Julio Ribeiro is built, refusing the tradition of philosophical grammar established by the Portuguese Jeronimo Soares Barbosa and thus performing an epistemological turn in the studies of Portuguese in Brazil, operating "um gesto fundador que constrói uma filiação à qual os gramáticos brasileiros farão referência sistemática" (ORLANDI, 2009 p. 154). The grammatization is taken in the History of Linguistic Ideas as a process of instrumentation of languages which alters the areas of communication and relationship of the speakers with their languages, constructing, from a certain knowledge of the language, a picture of linguistic unity, useful to the nations since the Renaissance. Thus, it is part of our objective to analyze how the construction of a network of theoretical affiliations from the work of Julio Ribeiro institutionalize a Brazilian knowledge about the language and how the institutionalization of such knowledge elaborates a linguistic identity and a Brazilian national identity. Rejecting the notion of influence, because it implies passivity before knowledge, we think of the theoretical affiliations of the Brazilian grammatization in terms of reframing of a certain knowledge about the language. Our hypothesis is that the Brazilian grammatization constitutes the link between the general grammar and the historical-comparative grammar and also the rework of ideas mobilized by these two great linguistic theories.