O falar do “caboco” paraense: um estudo sobre o léxico nos municípios de Santarém, Oriximiná e Juruti (Baixo-Amazonas-PA)

Abstract

The present research has a dialectal nature and was carried out in the Lower Amazon Region (PA). It followed the principles and parameters of Pluridimensional Dialecology supported by authors such as: Cardoso (2005), Correa (1980) e Azevedo (2013). It mainly addresses the level of specific lexical variants in three municipalities, which covers the mesoregion of the state of Pará, named Santarém, Oriximiná and Juruti. The objective of this study was: a) to map linguistic areas of the Lower Amazon, in this state, where there are possibly lexical variations in the semantic domains of farm, fishery, livestock, fauna, flora, world, biotype, man, etc. b) to characterize the residents of Santarém, Oriximiná and Juruti for the appropriation of specific lexicons in each municipality; c) to compare the results of the research according to the parameters of the dialectical research in the diatopic, diastrátic, diagenerational, and diassexual aspects, if they present data, respectively, productive; d) Identify the standard usage in the municipalities targeted by the survey for the regular distribution and higher frequency in the cartographic space. Respondents were eight in point of inquiry, obeying all the necessary dimensions for gender, education and age. Informants were divided into two age groups - 18 to 30 years and 50 to 65 years, and were also divided into male and female. With the acquisition of the answers collected in loco, carried out by means of a lexical questionnaire (QSL), containing 164 questions, elaborated according to the linguistic aspects of the regions, they were transformed into lexical letters, in order to collect the quantitative data of the lexical variants of the region, the norms of use and frequency, as contributed in their thesis Cristianini (2006), Pottier (1978) and Preti (1982). The results showed that there exists for each semantic domain a specific standard usage, which is represented in 50 semantic-lexical letters.