A stabilized name of theory, senses in movement : the argumentative semantics in history

Author(s)

Ana Cláudia Fernandes Ferreira

• Document type: Master's Dissertation
• Press: Campinas, SP.
• Institution: Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem
• Defense date: 2005-02-28

Examining board members

Claudia Regina Castellanos Pfeiffer; Mónica Zoppi Fontana; Mariza Vieira da Silva

• Advisor: Claudia Regina Castellanos Pfeiffer

Abstract

This thesis, part of the History of Linguistic Ideas in Brazil project, studies aspects of the argumentative semantics in works of Carlos Vogt and Eduardo Guimarães, that was produced during the 1970s and 1980s. This study analyses the name argumentative semantics, in relation to other names that designate a theoretical domain in the works of these authors. These analyses had allowed to an understanding on the stabilization of the name argumentative semantics in his works and the meanings of this name in movement. The functioning of argumenta tive semantics as an established name with changing meanings is understood on the basis of interdiscursive relations produced by specific material conditions: the general historical conditions of the production of the knowledge of language, and the specific historical conditions of the argumenta tive semantics domain. These conditions are discussed in relation to the institutions where the research of the authors was produced. (AU)