FROM THE MACHINERY TO THE THEORETICAL-ANALYTICAL DEVICE: THE PROBLEMATIC OF THE METHODOLOGICAL PROCEDURES OF THE DISCOURSE ANALYSIS

Abstract This article aims at go through the historicity of the methodology in the Discourse Analysis founded by Michel Pêcheux in order to understand and make a critical reflection on the ways analysis is made, considering the specificity of the theory in its insertion in the French context and its reformulation and development in the Brazilian context. As a possible applicability of the methodological procedures currently developed in the field, an analysis of the feminist discourse in the online social media is proposed. The discussion has the proposal of working with the materialistic theory of the discourse between the paraphrase and polysemy processes. With this study, it is observed that the DA has a non-positivist conception of scientificity to define its methodological procedures.