The pragmatic relationship between domain and documentation in information representation

Abstract

In attempt to understand how certain groups and specialized fields use language for information retrieval, domain analysis is proposed to be essential in getting to know the context, information needs, how this information is used, how this community communicates, the structure of discourses, enabling the organization and retrieval of knowledge and information in a pragmatic way. Thus, the goal is to theoretically analyze the notion of domain analysis in the information representation process, explored from the perspective of pragmatics theories, specifically concerning the sense effects resulting from speech acts. The current research is characterized as qualitative, bibliographic, and interdisciplinary in the critical execution of the analyses. Domain analysis demonstrates that the language of organization and representation adapts to the context and discursive community, therefore, the production sense effect for dialogue among peers is achieved through linguistic-pragmatic foundations. The foundation of the new approach to domain analysis, referred to as ethnographic-pragmatic, is precisely an understanding of the principles and role of pragmatic studies.