Abstract
This article aims to reduce the existing lack of systematizations of what Bourdieu called “sociological pragmatics” that can be understood as a discourse analysis approach. To that end, two analytical dimensions are developed seeking a construction of a conceptual analytical chart: (i) a review of the specialized literature on Discourse Analysis (DA) that confirms a wide diffusion of poststructuralist approaches (e.g., Foucault and Pêcheux), made from the bibliometric analysis of 159 academic papers on DA, in the SciELO platform published between 1997 and 2020; (ii) a survey of the central categories in Bourdieu’s works, considering the book Language and Symbolic Power as central. As a main result, this work outlines a useful conceptual framework for those interested in analyzing the discursive practices from this sociological point of view.
Keywords:
Pierre Bourdieu; Methodology; Pragmatics; Sociolinguistics; Discourse analysis