Os astros no corpus do projeto ALiB: revisitando os falares de nascentes

Abstract

This dissertation presents a study whose objective was to investigate, based on lexical data, the dialectal areas proposed by Antenor Nascentes in the 1950s, namely: Falar Amazônico, Falar Nordestino, Falar Baiano, Falar Mineiro, Falar Fluminense, Falar Sulista and Território Incaracterístico, in an attempt to elucidate whether this outline is currently confirmed. For the study, unpublished data extracted from the corpus of the ALiB Project were used as a basis, which is a nationwide attempt in the area of Dialectology and whose method is pluridimensional geolinguistics, which is supported by a basic tripod, defined as a network of points, informants and questionnaires. In this sense, for the realization of this study, a network of points composed of 250 locations, distributed throughout Brazil, was selected, taking as a reference the division of dialects of Nascentes (1953). For this purpose, five questions from the Semantic-Lexical Questionnaire (QSL) of the ALiB Project were used, which investigate the names attributed to some celestial bodies, more specifically questions 29, 30, 31, 32 and 33, and the contributions of 1100 informants were stratified according to the methodology for selecting informants of the aforementioned Project, which considers sex (male and female) and two age groups (group I – 18 to 30 years old and group II – 50 to 65 years old). Incidentally, the social factors controlled by the ALiB Project are not being monitored in this dissertation for methodological reasons and also because the answers given by informants from the capitals with a complete higher education level were ignored. The lexical data recorded in the sample, such as estrela d’alva, estrela cadente, cair and Caminho de Santiago were evaluated considering, in addition to the spatial distribution, the semantic-motivational aspects that may have favored, in some way, the crystallization of these uses and were confronted with the studies of Ribeiro (2012), Portilho (2013), Romano (2015), Cuba (2015), who did not research data from the ALiB Project, but developed the Atlas Linguístico Topodinâmico do Território Incaracterístico - ALTTI, Santos L. (2016), Alencar (2018) and Santos G. (2020), with regard to the areas of Nascentes speech (1953), among others. With the results found, it was verified that the layout of the dialects, proposed by Nascentes, in 1953, does not remain, today, as he proposed, but the macro division of dialects (North and South) could be visualized with the records of specific denominations.