A gênese historiográfica linguístico-científica de Labov
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2011
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This article aims at showing William Labov’s
intellectual and scientific trajectory. It is also our objective
to highlight the importance of the scientific work of this author
and the difficult path he walked until he found his true object
of scientific interest. We also show that there is not, in
scientific facts, accidents or coincidence, neither any innate
factor; everything is composed of a historiographical
individuality that is built upon the multiple experiences that
all human beings accumulate during life, and in every new
experience the old ones are crucial for decision-making. The
working methods are produced by the combination of many
other methods experienced and lived, and, at a certain time,
developed. Labov must be seen as a singular person who
had passion for science. His originality is to be found in his
capacity to develop an approach of empirical objectivist
character, the methods of which are similar to those of the
exact sciences. Among the deep changes of behavior
experienced by the North-American society in the 1960’s,
Labov developed his most important researches which would,
later, lead the claims for a new way of approaching
Linguistics. Of the observation of these different elements, it
can be said that this author’s linguistic thought should be
understood as a product of his socio-individual history and
that, in it, the essence of the general thought of a time is
refracted.
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Labov, Individualidade historiográfica, Gênese científica, Historiographical individuality, Scientific Genesis
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MARRA, Daniel; MILANI, Sebastião Elias. A gênese historiográfica linguístico-científica de Labov. Linha D'Agua, São Paulo, v. 24, n. 1, p. 127-146, 2011.