O pensamento inatingível: discurso, cognição e metáforas emergentes distribuídas

Abstract

Commonly, it is understood that the French Discourse Analysis (AD) epistemology is irreconcilable with the studies of human cognition. This thesis aims at deconstructing this approach with a triple movement: a) to demonstrate that the cognition and the Complex Systems work as the "constitutive others" for the emergence of a specific perspective in ADof the subject; b) to approach the AD to the Experiential Realism and Complex Systems, in special to the metaphor and thought conception in Lakoff and Johnson (1985) and to the Emergent Metaphor in Cameron and Larsen-Freeman (2007) and Cameron and Deignam(2009); c) to approach the thought perspective in AD to the Empiricism Cognitive Theory as developed by Auroux (1998). Thus, in the first chapter of this thesis, we demonstrate that the discussions about the cognition are present in the context of AD since its foundation. In thesecond chapter, we return, briefly, to the criticism from AD to wards Piaget's Constructivism, Chomskys Generativism, the Soviet language studies tradition and, finally, the Semiolinguistic Theory. In the third chapter, we resume some of the texts considered canonical in the AD epistemology in order to discuss the potentiality for a review of theirtradition so as to approach the perspective of discourse as radical historicity to some of the current studies of cognition. In the fourth chapter, we operate a dual approach of AD: first, to the Experiential Realism, in particular between the metaphor perspective in Pêcheux (2009)and Gadet and Pêcheux (2010) and the metaphor typology developed by Lakoff and Johnson (1985); secondly, to the discussions about the Emergent Metaphor in Cameron and Larsen-Freeman (2007) and Cameron and Deignam (2009). In the fifth chapter, we conducted theAD's dialogue with the proposal of external cognitive structures in Auroux (1998). In the sixth and last chapter, we developed an analogy with the "Unattainable Language" and the "unattainable metaphor" of Gadet and Pêcheux (2010) to propose the "unattainable Thought"and "Emergent Distributed Metaphors". Therefore, we analyzed 36 published statements on social internet networks in the period 2010-2014 with the aim of evaluating the constructionand reproduction of imaginaries about the Nordeste of Brazil.