The sacred as a sociolinguistic conceptistic

notes between Durkheim and Saussure

Abstract

This article has as its object of study the contribution of Émile Durkheim, for Sociology and Ferdinand de Saussure, for Linguistics and Ethnology, in the definition of the objects of study known as social facts and linguistic facts (respectively). More than launching objects of study, based on the promotion of epistemological and scientific aspects, Durkheim and Saussure also base their theories on chronological and spatial bases, preferring synchrony over diachrony and return, to a spatial/temporal zone that is more consistent with the cyclical movement. In addition, through the theoretical exposition we seek to show the fact that without the definition of social facts, we would not have the basis for the study of linguistic facts. This not only brings social facts closer to linguistic facts, but also makes it possible to think of the scientific field as a theoretically relational field that can be understood through an empirical situation, through the concept of the sacred and its analysis in line with social reality.