Doing research: the place of the concept

Abstract

This text considers opening a discussion concerning contemporary research, investing the focus on the scientific speech for a dynamic approach of discursive strategies. I try to carry through a critical reflection on the production of knowledge in some conceptual procedures. In this in case, I refer to a theoretical-methodological consideration, which intends to contribute for the updating of the discourse of science, today, and allows proposing a greater flexibility and displacement to the different productions of knowledge. Therefore, this work does not display directly ideas on science, but on the so called scientific speech. In this critical research, I briefly present the notion of pos-(de)construction. I use the contemporary studies as a theoretical-methodological axle for the argumentative development. The contemporary studies research the updates of concepts, which organize themselves by means of the production of news and seek a theoretical and political (re)dimensioning, associated to the flexible system of language. These updates sketch the area of the contemporary studies in its descriptive intensity, when it sets in motion an investigative look on the innovations in the scientific discourse today.