The french school discourse analysis and the theory of social representations: some theoretical-methodological interfaces

The purpose of this article is to analyze some of the theoretical and methodological interfaces of the French school discourse analysis with the theory of social representation. For that, the main structural elements of discourse analysis were used, such as the conditions of discourse production, the analytical devices of discourse analysis, and the discursive and ideological formations as units to understand the possibilities of this interface implementation. The analysis points out that the social representations have an integrating and mediating role between the ideology and the ideological formations; and it also indicates that the metaphor shows to be promising for the survey of the Figurative Core and of the Imagery Dimension of the Social Representations as well as the Interdiscourse regarding the Dimension of the Archaeology of Representation, and of the Social Memory. Simultaneously, the paraphrase is identified with the continuity process of a representation, and the polysemy corresponds to the recognition of a specific subgroup or of a representational transformation phenomenon. Thus, the discourse should be understood as a significant totality; and the dialogue between these two theoretical fields proves to be promising for both.