ADAM, THE FIRST LINGUIST: AN ESSAY ON NAMING
Resumo
In view of the density of naming and its intimately linguistic character, one might think that Adam's deed in the Judeo-Christian bible, despite any and all religious attributes, portrays the inauguration of a project of knowledge of the world and its beings and, consequently, their relationship with the use of language to represent them in the social sphere. With this question on the horizon of this essay, the proposal of this study turns to a linguistic-anthropological reflection that takes Adam as the first linguist, according to his act of naming. Thus, taking Adam as a linguist, with this metaphorical expedient, instructs both those who already know the rudiments of the science of language and those who have yet to explore the intricacies of linguistics. Proof of this is precisely the path developed in this essay.