ABSTRACT
This epistemological essay, which emerges from experiences set in the Agreste of Pernambuco between 2007 and 2016, has the main objective to systematize epistemic clues for research on people and businesses in a peripheral context, in the sense of greater linguistic clarification. After the introduction, some socio-historical features that constitute a place and its people are presented, followed by a brief retrospective look at such experiences. In the main section, clues are exposed that point to: (1) the need for an appropriate understanding of the context as peripheral; (2) advancement in the construction of a scientific mode of production appropriate to that context; (3) the relevance of clarifications about language as an ordinary action of researchers and researched people; and (4) argumentative rhetoric in the sense to achieve legitimacy in accordance with the audience to which it is directed. The text ends with brief concluding remarks.
KEYWORDS
Agreste; Bourdieu; epistemology; linguistic practice; peripheral business