Language, Semantics and Ideology
Pecheux, MichelI shall then try to develop the consequences of a materialist position, in the element of a Marxist-Leninist theory of Ideology and Ideologies, for what I shall call here 'discursive processes'. The scientific elements (still only in an embryonic state) which I shall propose for the analysis of these processes will here be designated by the global name 'theory of discourse', without, I repeat, taking this for the claim to have founded a new discipline, between linguistics and historical materialism. Finally, I shall examine the effects these elements have, in their specificity, on two questions which are central to Marxism-Leninism, namely: the question of the production of scientific knowledges, the question of revolutionary proletarian political practice."