Sentidos sobre tecnologia no sertão

Abstract

Inscribed in the perspective of the sciences of language, more specifically in the studies in Discourse Analysis, as proposed by Pêcheux (1969) and Orlandi (1999), this study seeks to understand the process of production of meanings about technology in the Sertão, more precisely, in the ancient Vila da Pedra, located in the Upper Sertão of Alagoas. From the analyses, we understand the functioning of discursive memory from meanings crystallized and legitimized in and by history, as it was/is the case of the meanings in the discourses of and about the Sertão that circulated in the society of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Furthermore, we observe that businessman Delmiro Gouveia, by bringing technology to the Sertão, affected this memory network, producing ruptures (cracks) in this discourse. Given the above, we can also say that this process of resignification was so impactful in the history of the region, that it produced a discursive event materialized in the redesignation of the urban space: the old Vila da Pedra was renamed Delmiro Gouveia.