O imaginário da língua no discurso da Revista “Língua Portuguesa”.

Abstract

This study aims to analyze the constitution of the discourse about language, especially the effects of meaning produced to represent it in the Língua Portuguesa magazine, from the Segmento publisher. The corpus of the analysis, therefore, corresponds to 12 issues of the magazine referring to 2010 year. In them we identified a discursive polemic established in the headlines from principal covers and in the matters to which they refer in the body of the magazine, since the representations made in these places discursive language contradict with the discourse of the editor in your letter to reader commemorating the 5 years of the magazine. While he said that the compromise of the magazine is aimed at the exposure of the linguistic diversity and its practice in everyday life, thereby revealing a vision of language as a means of social interaction, headlines and principal matters direct their senses to traditional conceptions of language. In this case, the language is sometimes presented as an expression of thought, or as an instrument of communication, or even the two concepts together. In this perspective, our analysis will be important because, in addition to contributing to a critical vision about the language, will find that elements of scientific discourse are being selected to represent what is considered to linguistic diversity and what elements of traditional discourse persist. With regard to the theoretical reference of this study analytical and interpretative we use the contributions of several authors of Discourse Analysis, especially Eni. P. Orlandi and Helena H. Brandão. Thus, we perfomed an analysis of discourse in the principal headlines of the magazine and two issues, so it was possible to confirm our hypothesis: that the constitution of the discourse about language in the magazine is controversy and sometimes contradictory. Moreover, we found that the discourses identified relate to produce an idealized vision of language.