O diagnóstico da linguagem e a linguagem do diagnóstico : uma perspectiva pragmática

• Autor(a) principal: Brito, Alexandre Vieira
• Data de Publicação: 2013
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo (riUfes)
• Texto Completo: http://repositorio.ufes.br/handle/10/1146
• topic: Language; Diagnosis; Pragmatic; Psicologia; Linguagem; Pragmática; Diagnóstico; Atos de fala (Linguística); 159.9

Speech acts, as theorized by John Austin, present language from a pragmatic perspective, utilizing words to put forth action through performative utterances. From this theoretical perspective, language takes on a creative force. Being in accordance with more comprehensive research regarding the pragmatics of language, we will thereby entertain the idea that a classification may not be a neutral description about facts. For that, Ian Hacking is the link between language and classification. According to him, classifications transform and are transformed simultaneously when they interact in several ways – among themselves, with subjects, with institutions, and with knowledge, everything to which they refer. Using a review as a starting point, and building upon it with an analysis and a bibliographic composition, language can be connected, which parallels Austin’s postulation. Classifications can then produce reality. Among the various types of classifications, we must pay particular attention to the diagnosis (as a case study in the theory of enunciation) and its pragmatic effects, keeping in mind the elements which guarantee its efficiency and existence in our contemporary world due to the increasing number of nosological categories in society. We will deal classifications of psychiatric medicine in particular. We will discuss both the conditions which contribute to the emergency and the potency of a diagnosis as well as its effects. Formation of new subjects and ways of life are examples of the effects on which we will focus. Therefore, both the conditions and effects in which enunciation are utilized affect the notion of a diagnosis as a classification in a particular socio-historical condition.