In the decades of 1960 and 1970, the so-called linguistic turn and the crisis of the social sciences paradigms brought along new approaches, methods and challenges into the historiographic field. The history of the intellectuals started to become interested in not only the trajectories per se, but also in a properly intellectual history, that is, the plural, multidisciplinary dynamics of building ideas, the relations between the author and the piece, their time and other works. In this paper, we analyzed how these issues were moved by Carlos Altamirano and Oscar Terán by looking into Facundo: civilización y barbárie (1845), by Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, through the dialectical relationship among text, context and connectors. Our main hypothesis is that the connectors were operational in the argentine intellectual history program. This tool made it possible to highlight the historical discourse as a social practice, aimed by the Prismas group and the after linguistic turn context.