Notas sobre o conceito de texto na linguística ecossistêmica

Abstract

The main objective of this article is to show that the text is not the prototypical manifestation of the language activity. According to the branch of ecolinguistics known as ecosystemic linguistics, the nucleus of language is communicative interaction. Therefore, the most genuine product of this activity is the dialog. However, the text is basically monological. In this case, dialogical texts are the kind of text that most approximate the ideal of ecosystemic text, like a play. Ecosystemic linguistics looks at its object from a holistic point of view. This implies that what has been called “monological text” in our occidental culture are seen as produced by somebody in order to be read by somebody else. In other words, these texts are complete only when the cycle sender-hearer is reached, i. e., when there is a feedback from the hearer to the sender and vice-versa. Ecosystemic linguists depart from the act of communicative interaction to its parts, one of which is the text. Traditional approaches to text act the other way round, from the text in search of its conditions of production .