Análise de Conteúdo e Análise do Discurso: aproximações e afastamentos na (re)construção de uma trajetória

This paper focuses on the discussion of a discursive approach developped as an alternative to the insufficiencies of Content Analysis. Our goal in centered on two main questions: which are the insufficiencies which motivated a discursive approach; in what sense the practices in Content Analysis contributed to the positions assumed by a discursive approach. The conclusions indicate the need of further research on the unsettled relationship between text and context.