Concept appropriation as an object in the scientific periodical literature in information science

Abstract

It analyses the notion of concept situated in the periodical literature in Information Science in Brazil. It discusses the theoretical ideas about the concept and its relations with the historical process that determines itself, and indicates possibilities of studies related to the semantic fields in which these relations are carried out. It analyzes the contents of a corpus of 75 articles selected from the “Base Referencial de Artigos de Periódicos em Ciência da Informação(Brapci)”, between the years 1975 and 2011, identifying and mapping themes related to the conception and evolution of the concept as an object of study. The concept is widely discussed in relation to its philosophical origins, its relations with science and reality, but it has not been sufficiently explored in relation to the richness and connotations that it acquires historically, to the ideology or the power relations existing in the semantic fields in which it is represented and defined.