THE CONSTITUTION OF THEORETICAL FILIATION IN THE ACADEMIC WRITING
academic writing, theoretical filiation, dialogism, linguistic-discursive operations
This work constitutes a discussion about the academic writing of researchers in formation. It turns to the understanding of what is at stake in the constitution of this writing that happens from the marked and veiled dialogue with many voices, a dialogue that involves theoretical choices. It is about these choices that we turn our attention. Our research question is: How does dialogue with the discourse other engender the theoretical filiation? In order to formulate this question and at the same time to seek a response we take into account the studies of Benveniste (2004, 2005) on the subject implied with its saying; of Bakhtin (2003, 2006) on dialogism, of Authier-Revuz's (1998, 2004) on enunciative heterogeneity, of Ginzburg's (1989) on the indiciary paradigm. These authors allow us to say that it is possible to verify in writing a series of linguistic-discursive operations, organized from pronouns, verbs, adverbs, schemes of discourse quoted, forms of representation of the discourse other, which show the negotiations that the subject accomplishes with the voices he summons. In this sense we have chosen as a general objective to understand how the dialogism engenders the filiation to a theoretical line, from the survey and the analysis of linguistic-discursive operations observable in doctoral theses. We selected ascorpus doctoral theses from the area of Linguistics and Education. Preliminary results show that voices assume different values in the process of filiation. The value is relational and depends on how the subject selects the voices and makes them talk to each other, on how it puts itself in writing and how it negotiates with the interlocutor.