| dc.description.abstract | Discussing the work of Émile Benveniste isn’t an easy task, since the author has,
in his works, interlocutions with several areas of knowledge, confirmed by the
treatment given to the themes in his works. However, we realize that, although
Benveniste understands the language as a whole in the enunciative act, the
phoneme theme is diluted in his works and is not commonly addressed in the
enunciative Benvenistiana-based scientific research. In this context, in this
research we have as general objective to investigate the treatment given to the
phoneme in the best known works of Émile Benveniste: Problems of General
Linguistics, volumes I and II. This work, we will emphasize the area language
acquisition. For this we will present discussions about the phoneme from the
findings of Trubetzkoy (1933), Courtenay (1870), Jakobson (1967), to the
considerations of Benveniste, who perhaps are not limited only to discussions
about the minimal unity of the word or in their phonetic / phonological
representation. We assume that the phoneme can be perceived as an enunciative
environment. Thus, this research will be guided by the epistemological bases of
Enunciation theory, represented by the works of Émile Benveniste and the studies
on the phoneme of Baudouin Courtenay, Nicolai Trubetzkoy and Roman Jakobson,
who began their work on structuralism and established their research on
Functionalism. We have developed a qualitative study characterized as a
bibliographical review in the aforementioned works, in which we seek to traverse
the Benveniste studies by reviewing the possible perspectives given to the
phoneme in the author's thought and its relation to the enunciation. We performed
the analysis from a thorough data collection of the use of the concept of phoneme
by Benveniste in the researched works. With this study we find in the works of
Benveniste a discussion about the phoneme, which makes it possible to identify it,
also, as an enunciative environment, linguistics analyze and sense. | eng |
