Epistemological insertion of the complexity theory in linguistics: on fragments and totalities
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This article discusses a topic which has been orienting linguistic studies – the concept of system, as defined by modern sciences, based on the relation between part and whole. We reexamine this orienting concept starting with the discussion of the modernity paradigm crisis, possible due to the approximation among sciences, such as Physics and Biology, which are providing to other sciences an epistemological oxygenation regarding their objects of knowledge. Besides this, through such advances, it unveils for those sciences the fact that no matter how strict they are, in the sense of modernity, their objects may also be thought from the perspective of construction of meanings, with all language work that it involves. Thus, with the relativization of the limits among sciences, scientific work gains political meaning, both for integrating sciences and allowing focus on what is human and socially situated.
Key words: system, paradigm crisis; linguistic studies.Downloads
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