Dinâmica da relação "turcos-sultão" nos séculos XVII-XVIII e efeitos de sentido: pode-se falar de acontecimentos semântico?

Abstract

In a corpus composed of dictionary entries, literary text and voyage diaries, Rachele Raus analyses the change of sense in the relation Turks-sultan as it is represented by the French between the 17th and 18th centuries. The author interprets elements such as: the reduction of voyage diaries in the 18th century: the role of god attributed to the sultan in the 17th century and that of a tyrant in the second half of the 18th century: the sensuality attributed to the sultan in the 17th century and extended to the turks in the 18th century: the representation of the harém related to the lack of liberty of women due to (religious) despotism in the 18th century: the passage of a Turkish silence in the 17th century to a turkish rebelion to a turkish rebellion in the 18th century. The fact that the changes between the two centuries do not correspond to effective changes in the Ottoman Empire leads the author to assume that the re-elaboration of the referent 'turks-sultan' by the French is not indifferent to the approach of the French Revolution and that it constitutes, for the lexical and discursive effects that it brings with it, a semantic event.