August or disgust? Revelations for northern speaking in the corpus of the ALiB Project

Abstract

This paper presents one of the aspects that the Linguistic Atlas of Brazil Project (ALiB Project) deals with, the lexicon of Brazilian Portuguese. Thus, the lexical variation related to the semantic area of ​​stars and weather is investigated, in the cities Macapá, Boa Vista, Manaus, Belém, Rio Branco and Porto Velho, belonging to the Northern Region of Brazil. With two volumes already published, the Linguistic Atlas of Brazil includes aspects of phonetics, including prosody, lexicon and morphosyntax and, based on the volume of linguistic maps, some considerations initials can already be made on the diversity of uses linked to specific areas, but also related to social factors. The methodology used in this research consisted of the following steps: i) reading of theoretical texts related to the proposed theme; ii) choice and formation of the corpus, consisting of surveys of selected capitals of the ALiB Project; and iii) analysis of the corpus in order to verify the lexical variety in diatopic, diasexual, diastratic and diagerational terms. Therefore, the analysis of the investigated investigations seeks to study lexical items, such as month of the crazy dog, month of disgust, junine month, month of marriages and month of Saint John, present in the linguistic repertoire of informants, men and women, of age range I (18-30 years old) and age range II (50-65 years old), of middle school and university level, in order to verify the registration and documentation of the lexical diversity of Portuguese spoken in Northern of Brazil, following the principles of Multidimensional Geolinguistics, which follows geographical and social parameters. The French theory adopted by Mejri (1997), which investigates the criteria for fixing these expressions and their use, is used as a basis for phraseological analysis. For analysis of the semantic motivation of the items found, theoretical support is sought in works such as Ferreira and Freitas (1994). Consequently, the aim is to highlight the speech communities that make use of these names in their daily lives, how they occur, why they occur, in addition to describing the lexical variety of Northern speech.