Interfaces between Language and Literature
The course proposal contemplates the Interface between Language and Literature to highlight the relations between these two fields of knowledge, prioritizing the mediations, articulations and adherences between the research lines “Text, Memory, Culture” and “Languages, Reading, Interpretation”. The justification for prioritizing these two lines of research is due to the fact that both Linguistics and Literature are materialized by the text, via memory and culture, considering that the origins, the structures, and the workings of language result in Linguistics and Literature as sciences. Linguistics has language as the object of investigation, initially, through history and its evolution (the formation of languages, comparative studies) and, in the 20th century, starting with Saussure and the cut established by his assumptions, which include the concern of Linguistics as a science, demanding object, objectives and study methodologies. It is noteworthy that as a science, Linguistics evolves by encompassing knowledge from other domains which have been incorporated to language studies. Literature is constituted by language, which, as language, is a domain of knowledge that is structured not only from the unreal, but also by cultural and memorial relations that articulate other disciplines of knowledge such as history, psychoanalysis, anthropology, sociology, philosophy, among others, which are disciplines of interpretation, built by language. These disciplines produce knowledge through language, which is indispensable for human communication and for the development of new technologies, considering that no innovation occurs without mobilizing and understanding different processes that affect reading and interpretation, which are in Linguistics and Literature without positivist commitments. Therefore, Language and Literature in the production of knowledge presuppose the interface between culture, memory and languages in different material forms of meaning (texts: scientific, literary, journalistic, advertising, historical, cultural, media, etc.). The theoretical cutout of the research proposed by the Program is, then, the text and the discourse, considering language and interpretation as the locus. Linguistics and Literature are configured as reading and interpretation disciplines by culture and memory, resulting in identity processes.
Lines of Research
Languages, Reading, Interpretation
The research line “Languages, Reading, Interpretation” has the objective of giving a formation in languages, focused on the understanding of the processes of production of meanings that result from their relations with society, their modes of production, formulation and circulation, as well as the gestures of reading and interpretation that are put into operation at the interface with linguistic studies, literary studies and related areas. The researches developed in this line seek to understand the processes of signification, the subjects, the history, the culture, the memory and the teaching, enabling the researcher to analyze and understand the different textualities that are constituted in and by language in its interface with different epistemological frameworks of both linguistics and literature. By placing languages as the central theme of this line of research, we seek to familiarize the graduate student with the modes of textualization and their reading and interpretation processes that are sustained under different linguistic-literary materialities (such as scientific texts, painting, cinema, video, photography, music, theater, dance, sculpture, visual arts and performing arts, among others), via culture and memory. From the perspective of the language sciences, in their epistemological interfaces, such manifestations of language articulate themselves, functioning in their processes of signification, considering the relationship of the subject in society through the memorialistic and cultural bias. Thus, the relationship of the way languages mean and are present in society is made explicit. The goal is to prepare the researcher, whether in Linguistics, Literature or other areas of knowledge, to understand and analyze the different forms of languages in their modes of existence and functioning in society.
Text, Memory, Culture
The research line “Text, Memory, Culture” aims at prioritizing the text in circulation in society, considering the specificities of the interfaces between Linguistics, Literature and related areas as places of symbolic, memorial, historical and cultural manifestations in different textual and discursive materialities (texts: scientific, literary, journalistic, advertising, historical, cultural, media, etc.) in society and in its institutions, aiming at the theoretical deepening and the methodological differences put into operation by different theories of language sciences. The research developed in this line seeks to deepen the theoretical scope that sustains and supports the analysis of textuality, considering the development of investigations in the area and the transformations that solidify the studies of language as a science, demonstrating the importance and indispensability of language and literature in the formation of society and of man as a being of language, culture and memory. By placing the text, memory and culture at the center of this line of research, the goal is to provide the graduate student with epistemologies that show the production of knowledge resulting from investigations that have already been carried out, discussed, proven and put in abeyance, which means understanding that the linguistic-literary disciplinary field moves and remakes itself constantly at the interface with other disciplinary fields. It also shows that culture and memory, made concrete through language, are an intrinsic part of the subject and of its identity formation. The goal is that the researcher, whether in Linguistics, Literature or other related areas, will be able to understand and analyze theoretically different forms of textuality in their modes of existence and functioning in society.
