Remarks about the "Vocabulario Orthographico da Lingua Portugueza, precedido das regras concernentes ás principaes dificuldades orthographicas da nossa lingua" by Said Ali

Abstract

Casting our look on the “Vocabulario Orthographico da Lingua Portugueza, precedido das regras concernentes às principaes difficuldades orthographicas da nossa língua”, by Said Ali, published in 1905, we observe the discursive fact around the absence of reference to this work in the studies that are dedicated to the history of linguistic-grammatical knowledge. It is important for us to reflect on this absence beside an author’s name – Said Ali – which is part of the periodizations, but from a list of publications from which the Vocabulário is not meant as belonging. As researchers enrolled in the History of the Linguistics Ideas, linked to the Materialist Discourse Analysis, we have been moving around the understanding of which prohibits the disciplinarization of the Vocabulário in our history. In this journey, which opens up to new onslaughts, we have seen some tensions, equivocities and contradictions in different orders that interlace, entangle, weave each other in the thread of the discourse inscribed in the Vocabulário.