A autoria do CLG: uma análise à luz do conceito foucaultiano de função autor

Abstract

The starting point of this work is the concept of author stablished by Foucault (1969). Based on this concept, we aim to demonstrate that is effectively possible to support the authorship of the Course in General Linguistics attributed to Ferdinand de Saussure. This is because, according to Foucault, an author must not be understood as a person that pronounces or writes a text; actually, it must be comprehended as a series of elements that give unity to a specific discourse.