O papel da escrita na fundação da linguística moderna

Uma leitura dos cursos ao Curso de Linguística Geral

Abstract

This is an analysis of the role of writing in modern linguistics foundation. The analysis is based on the Course of General Linguistics, as well as in the material that has originated it, i.e. the students’ notes, some of Saussure’s manuscripts and Albert Sechehaye’s Collation. The gesture of interpretation hereby carried out has identified three movements from Saussure regarding writing. The first one in which writing is excluded from the linguistic object of that time, built on philological basis; the second movement constitutes a new destination to writing: writing as scientific notation, no longer being the object but now the instrument of linguistics; the third movement is stablished under the umbrella of Semiology, in which writing starts to be understood as a system and not subordinated to the language [langue] as before. When comprehended as a system, writing became crucial to what would constitute the core of Saussurean thinking, the theory of value.