ESSÊNCIA E CONCEITO, FORMA E SUBSTÂNCIA: INTERSEÇÕES EPISTEMOLÓGICAS ENTRE O ESTRUTURALISMO INATISTA DE CHOMSKY E O ESTRUTURALISMO SISTÊMICO DE SAUSSURE

This paper revisits the philosophical historiography in pursuit of problem ontologies that demarcate some salutary issues of human knowledge. Based on these relevant ontological issues, we insert us into the discussion of some authors that demonstrate the continuity of such questions in the theoretical and doctrinal pillars present in the current Linguistics since its modern founding by Saussure. I still propose that such issues are present, too, beyond the Saussurean structuralism, in the Chomskian neo-structuralism, revealing deeper epistemological intersections that under Linguistics dialogue with philosophical ontological questions.

THE LANGUAGE PATHS: A HISTORICAL REVIEW

This article aims to address the history of language from Antiquity to the structuralism of Saussure (2003) relating the concepts of language and sign language with the assumptions of Sociolinguistics, the science of language use in society. It is a succinct and objective approach of the various currents of thought about language throughout history, on the relationship between linguistic structure and social aspects and the close relationship between language, identity and society. This approach could also serve as a foundation more uniform for any student of language in their first steps on the road studies and research on this topic.