Connotative significance of the language of social sciences

Abstract

After a general characterisation of the so called theoretical practice and of the activities of epistemological and methodological intervention the authors try to center the specificity of social sciences at the level of language, while reflecting on their articulation with the ideological systems. The explanation of some of the basic concepts of linguistics makes possible the further analysis of the concept of connotation. An interdisciplinary theoretical setting for such concept is then proposed, in order to make it useful for the operational intervention in the detection and disavowal of the semiological systems implied in the language of social sciences.