%0 Journal Article %T Dicion¨˘rios: hist¨®ria, leitura e produ o %A Jos¨¦ Horta Nunes %J Revista de Letras %D 2010 %I Catholic University of Brasilia %X In this article, I cover three aspects related to the knowledge about dictionarires: the history of Brazilian dictionaries, the reading and the production of dictionaries from a perspective of the Discourse Analysis and the History of Linguistic Ideas. Hence, the dictionary is seen as a discourse about language, particularly about words or about a fragment of reality, for the user, in certain social and historical conditions. %K Dictionary %K history of linguistic ideas %K discourse analysis. %U http://portalrevistas.ucb.br/index.php/RL/article/view/1981/1305