Funções da linguagem: enfoques filosófico e antropológico

Abstract

The functions of language have been focused in many areas of knwoledge, such as philosophy, etnography and linguistics. As this theme is, in its wholeness, vast, we limit the subject of this article to philosophy, from the Classic Antiquity to the modern period, in which scholars as Austin and Wittgenstein stand out; and to etnography, whose most important representative is Malinowski.