The influence of Jean-Claude Gardin and the French approach on the evolution of documentary language's notion

摘要

Bibliographic review study on the evolution of Documentary Languages and its field of study, the Documentary Linguistics. Based upon the researches developed by the French approach in Europe, notably by Jean-Claude Gardin, and in Brazil, by Grupo Temma. It is proposed a framework of the main characteristics of Documentary Languages having the appropriation of the Structural Linguistics by the Documentation as a focus. It analyses the evolution of the denomination of Documentary Languages, their functions, and it compares both approaches.