The Sacred as a Sociolinguistic Concept: Notes Between Durkheim and Saussure

Abstract

The object of this article is to study the contribution of Émile Durkheim, in sociology, and Ferdinand de Saussure, in linguistics and ethnology, in the definition of the objects of study known as social facts and linguistic facts (respectively). More than just launching of objects of studies, based on the promotion of epistemological and scientific cut-outs, Durkheim and Saussure also based their theories on chronological and spatial bases, preferring synchrony to diachrony and returning to spatial/temporal zone more in line with the conjunctural movement. In addition, through the theoretical exposition we have tried to show the fact that without the definition of social facts, we would not have the basis for the study of linguistic facts. This not only brings social facts closer to linguistic facts, but also makes it possible to think of the scientific field as a theoretically relational field that can be understood via an empirical situation, through the concept of the sacred and its analysis in line with social reality.