Saussure, Bréal e a questão do sentido

Sabe-se que Ferdinand de Saussure foi contemporâneo de Michel Breal. No entanto, um fato minimamente curioso e o da ausencia de uma discussao sobre as ideias de Breal na teorizacao de Saussure. Partindo desse pressuposto, o presente trabalho, de natureza teorica, tem o objetivo de discutir alguns aspectos da reflexao desses autores acerca do sentido , com o intuito de problematizarmos o "silencio" saussuriano em relacao as ideias do mestre frances. Para abordarmos a teorizacao saussuriana, partiremos de sua obra postuma, o Curso de linguistica geral , de 1916, e dos manuscritos reunidos e publicados, em 2002, por Simon Bouquet e Rudolf Engler nos Escritos de linguistica geral ; ja a perspectiva brealiana sera abordada a partir de seu Ensaio de semântica , publicado em 1897. Parece-nos que o estatuto necessariamente sincronico do signo , proposto por Saussure a partir da oposicao sincronia / diacronia , desautoriza a possibilidade de uma abordagem historica do sentido, tal como propos Breal. Saussure, Breal and the issue of the meaning It is known that Ferdinand de Saussure was a contemporary of Michel Breal. However, a minimally curious fact is the absence of a discussion of Breal's ideas in Saussure's theorizing. Based on this assumption, the present work, of a theoretical nature, has the objective of discussing some aspects of the reflection of these authors about the meaning, in order to problematize the saussurian "silence" in relation to the french master ideas. In order to approach Saussurian theorization, we will start with his posthumous work, the General Linguistics Course of 1916, and the manuscripts collected and published in 2002 by Simon Bouquet and Rudolf Engler in the Writings in General Linguistics ; the brealian perspective will be approached from his Semantic Essay , published in 1897. It seems to us that the necessarily synchronic status of the sign, proposed by Saussure from the synchrony/diacrony opposition, deters the possibility of a historical approach to meaning, as Breal proposed. Keywords: Saussure. Breal. Meaning. Synchrony and Diacrony DOI: 10.28998/2317-9945.2019v1n62p255-275