The architectonic of scientific dissemination in the utterances of Glorias Popular Conferences (19th century)

Author(s)

Urbano Cavalcante da Silva Filho

• Document type: Doctoral Thesis
• Press: São Paulo.
• Institution: Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD)
• Defense date: 2017-03-16

Examining board members

Sheila Vieira de Camargo Grillo; Elisabeth Brait; Luiz Rosalvo Costa; Irene de Araujo Machado; Vânia Lúcia Menezes Torga

• Advisor: Sheila Vieira de Camargo Grillo

Abstract

The present research aims at identifying, describing and analyzing the architectonic of the scientific dissemination materialized in the concrete utterances of Glorias Popular Conferences, a representative and high-impact activity of the science dissemination production of and in the nineteenth century in Brazil. The theoretical assumption which supports the investigation is Bakhtins and his Circles reflections, mainly the elaborations on the concepts of architectonic, sphere, discourse genre, evaluative entonation, dialogic relations, responsivity, ethical action, authorship, heterodiscourse, among others, in order to understand how the architectonic of this activity has been built, from the joint of form, material and content in the confrontation between the value centers in the ordination of a sense unit of its discourse. It is about a work supported in the bakhtinian Metalinguistics, which makes us taking into consideration the relation that the conferences utterances established with the ideological and social horizons to which they belong to and with the concrete conditions of discourses existence and life. Throughout this theoretical-methodological lens, we understand the scientific dissemination as a result of dialogue among the ideological spheres, mostly the scientific and educational spheres. Thus, from an analysis of the singularities of the linguistic semiotized materiality, in these conferences concrete utterances, we defend the thesis that its architectonic is supported on two nuclear axes: science and education, which we call scientific and educational architectural pillars. In this case, these two spheres and their discourses are essential for the architecture of this architectonic, when they pursue the ideal of taking the country to a threshold of development, modernity and civilization in the form of the European countries and United States, for example. The research resulted in the present thesis structured this way: in the first part, there is a presentation and discussion on the theoretical-methodological assumptions of the research; in the second part, there is a socio-historical contextualization on the scientific dissemination activities in Brazil in the nineteenth century, more particularly Gloria\'s Popular Conferences (our research corpus); at last, in the third part, with the analysis of the conferences on science and education in which we defend as the architectural pillars supported by the political-ideological and discourse project of Glorias Popular Conferences. (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 14/09509-6 - The architectonic of the scientific dissemination on Gloria's Popular Conferences (19th century)
• Grantee: Urbano Cavalcante da Silva Filho
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate