Trabalho de Conclusão de Curso - Graduação
Esboço de um inventário lexical da cultura amapaense
Fecha
2015Registro en:
Autor
SANCHES, Romário Duarte
Institución
Resumen
This article aims to develop a small lexical inventory of the Amapa culture,
and to establish anthropological and linguistic nature of discussions about the
interrelationship between language and culture. Theoretical support adopted the postulates of
Geertz (1973), Biderman (1992; 2001), Fiorin (2008), Laraia (2009), Cardoso (2010) and
among other authors dealing with cultural and dialect studies. For this research, we used data
of the project Atlas Linguistic of Amapa (ALAP) employing the method of dialectology,
known as geolinguistic. Were selected a total of about 80 lexical items that shape cultural
traits geographically and socially distributed by the state of Amapa. By the dialectal and geolinguistic studies in Brazil, specifically in the Amazon, are noticeable contributions that
data from linguistic atlases provide society. Are linguistic data very rich that can support
research for numerous areas of knowledge such as history, sociology, geography, lexicology,
anthropology, etc. Data provided by project ALAP reveal the linguistic and cultural diversity
of Amapa. The lexical items inventoried show the current state of linguistic and cultural
diversity left by our ancestors, mainly under the influence of indigenous languages in our
vocabulary, the use of words such as: mucura, igarapé, carapanã, mangará and etc. The
preparation of this small lexical inventory is a way to instigate new research and contribute to
the cultural and linguistic studies in Amapa, an attempt to understand and record the dynamics
of language as a cultural trait.