Abstract
In this work, we aim to understand how public policies involving languages act in the texture and reaffirmation of language in its imaginary order. To this end, we rely on a specific archive, the Public Policy Bank on Languages in Brazil (BPL), whose organization has shown us an articulated functioning between language as a material condition of discourse and language as a symbolic object. Drawing on Discourse Analysis in its articulation with the History of Linguistic Ideas, we assume public policies as political-normative textualizations and, based on them, we work on the fact of language (Pêcheux, 2010) in the materiality of the archive to deduce how discursively policies (re)signify the mentioned imaginary.
Keywords:
Public Policy; Language; Imaginary; Archive; Memory