“Eu [...], escrivão que o escrevi”: edição filológica e estudo lexical de um processo-crime baiano do século XIX

Abstract

The present study focused on the laborious philological activity of text editing, with the purpose not only of safeguarding the manuscript documentation from the damages of time and improper handling, but also of contributing to philological and linguistic research in Brazil in general and in Bahia, in particular. In this perspective, the research object selected for this thesis is a trial of physical aggression by José Torquato Ferreira against José Antonio da Hora, a handwritten document with 97 folios, mostly written on the front and back, written between 1885 and 1886 in the village of Santana do Catu, in the19th century Brazil, which is part of the judicial collection donated by the Forum Desembargador Wilton de Oliveira e Sousa to the Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia Baiano (IFBAIANO), both located in Catu - BA. Thus, two major objectives were undertaken: on the first, referring to the philological approach, or rather, based on the substantive, adjective and transcendent functions described by Spina (1977), focused on the facsimile and semi-diplomatic editions of the Guilt Summary, articulating with other perspectives, such as Historiography, Codicology, Palaeography, Diplomatics and Law, to situate the document in the space-time in which it was developed, to understand how the operators of law applied the legislation in force and how aspects of the intimate life of the procedural subjects involved (defendant and victim) reflect the Catuense society of that time (professional activity and level of education). In the second, the unfolding of the philological operation, that is, the semi-diplomatic edition was established the lexical study based on the assumptions of the Methodology of the Lexical Fields of Eugenio Coseriu (1977) to evidence the vocabulary of the crime present in the process-crime, from the selected lexias. To perform the survey of lexemes related to the field of crime throughout the process-crime was used the AntConc computational tool (Anthony, 2016). As theoretical contribution, in the philological field, it was used scholars such as: Spina (1977), Cambraia (2005), Lose and Souza (2020), Borges and Souza (2012), among other references. In the historiographical area, to contextualize the locus in which the judicial process took place, the "place of production" was situated based on the discussions of Barros (2020). The codicological aspects were anchored in Dias (2018), Rodríguez Díaz (2016), among others; the paleographical aspects in Andrade (2010) and Ávila Seoane (2016) and the diplomatic description in Bellotto (2002) and Duranti (2015).