O ‘Caminho de Santiago’ e a ‘Via Láctea’: uma análise lexical sobre a denominação de um fenômeno do céu

Abstract

Knowledge of the astrological system, its description and understanding, dates back to ancient civilizations, in which survival depended on understanding the phenomena that influenced everyday life, so that the celestial vault, the stars, configured different meanings for each civilization. Nowadays, the observation and naming of celestial phenomena have been relegated to older generations, since younger people are absorbed in the digital age, making designations of a semantic field that used to be part of life fall into disuse. In this context, the present study carried out a lexical survey of the variants collected for question number 023: designations for the galaxy, collected by the Tocantins Linguistic Topodynamic and Topostatic Atlas (ALiTTETO) (SILVA, 2018), along with 96 informants. As a result, i) the predominant form 'The Way of Saint James’ recalls the nomination linked to the Catholic universe, coming from the Iberian tradition; ii) the diatopic factor was not predominant in the data, with the diagenerational variable providing indications that designations linked to the celestial world are in the process of disappearing.