O Léxico dos jogos e diversões infantis no corpus do Projeto ALiB: visitando o Falar Nordestino

Abstract

This dissertation analyze the proportion of Brazil dialectal division proposal, undertaken by Nascentes, in 1953, for Northeast speech area, which is currently maintained. For this purpose, the author suggests a division in Brazil in two large speech groups, South and North, in which Northeast speech is located and, lastly, he proposes an area which he has defined as uncharacteristic territory. The study in question is based on Dialectology, Contemporary Pluridimensional Geolinguistic and Lexicography theoretical assumption. Our aim is to describe the diatopic variation and enable the lexical variation recognition of Brazilian spoken Portuguese characteristics, contributing, therefore, to Lexicography, with regard to the cataloging of regionalisms. For this reason, the data of the Project Linguistic Atlas of Brazil (ALiB) corpus was used, corresponding to 53 localities, making up the total of 240 informants of both sexes, belonging to two age group (one from 18 years old to 30 and another one from 50 to 65) and two educational levels (incomplete elementary education and college education – the last one only in capitals). The network of points includes 7 of the 9 Brazilian Northeast states, namely Maranhão, Piauí, Ceará, Rio Grande do Norte, Paraíba, Pernambuco and Alagoas. There were selected 13 questions from games and children’s amusements semantic areas, which integrate the ALiB Lexica-semantic questionnaire. Observing the objetive explanation, the results achieved are disseminated through graphs, charts and linguistics letters. Moreover, it is presented a comparative overview with ALiB studies aimed at identifying dialectal areas through lexical items: Ribeiro (2012), Portilho (2013), Romano (2015) e Santos (2016). From the generated analyzes, it was confirmed that is possible to trace dialectal areas through the lexicon. However, it appears that Nascentes’ proposal, in this case, it has no vitality because the Northeast speech has no homogenity with regard to the games and amusements lexicon. In fact, we note particularities among the states, highlighting the following aspects: Maranhão and, by the way, Piauí which receive the Amazonian speech influence; Rio Grande do Norte, Paraíba and Pernambuco function as nuclear states that now dialogue with Ceará, or dialogue with Alagoas; Ceará and Alagoas seem to represent points of transition between the states.