Ensaio sobre deslocamentos produzidos pela passagem do “gesto de leitura” à elaboração de um instrumento linguístico

Abstract

This text presents reflections, of an essayistic nature, in an effort to resume the analysis works produced in the last 10 years, having as object of study different “linguistic instruments” (Auroux, 1992), establishing relations with a recent work of collective elaboration of a thematic “Vocabulary”, produced during the pandemic period, especially between March 2021 and May 2023. This is the elaboration of the New Coronavirus Pandemic Vocabulary, which involved 26 researchers, affiliated with 10 Brazilian HEIs, and which is published on the UFSM website, together with the Health Information Observatory, enabling the visibility of the work of linguists and   discourse analysts in the institutional place traditionally occupied by researchers from other areas. The theoretical and methodological principles of Discourse Analysis in its relations with the History of Linguistic Ideas guided our research and enabled the elaboration of 80 entries, via “shared authorship” (Biazus, 2019), which can already be seen in a publication of printed book with the same title, by Editora Pedro & João (funded by Edict Universal – CNPq). The reflection that we propose touches closely the processes of production of meanings about words and about social practices in a lived, suffered and experienced time, going beyond our readings and analyzes on the “linguistic instruments” available and proposing “suggestions for definition” (Dotoli, 2012) with the production of a “reading artifact” (Winner, 2017) that contributes to the understanding of the effects of meanings produced by subjects in pandemic and post-pandemic times.