The Sacred as a Sociolinguistic Concept: Notes Between Durkheim and Saussure
James Washington Alves dos SANTOS
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 z… Show more
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