Quem conta um conto aumenta um ponto e quem canta um canto aumenta quanto? um estudo das variações lexicais em romances e cantigas tradicionais na obra Cantos populares do Brasil (1897), de Sílvio Romero

Abstract

The purpose of this work is to make a lexical analysis of novels and traditional songs rescued and compiled in the work Cantos Populares do Brasil (1897), by Sílvio Romero. For this, we analyzed the lexicon, contextualizing it from a geographical, social and cultural perspective, in order to understand the lexicon and its semantic and artistic aspects contained in Popular Literature, confirming our hypothesis that the variation of the lexicon used brings people closer to their culture and that the lexicon reveals marks of its own discourse, that is, it reveals an identity. As a result of corpus analysis, we created a glossary of popular regional language based on a linguistic study, based on Lexicon Sciences - Lexicology and Lexicography -, Sociolinguistics and Ethnolinguistics, aimed at describing the semantic aspects of 42 popular poems rescued by Romero (1897) in the Northeast region of Brazil, in the second half of the 19th century. The glossary is composed of 147 lexias, made up of words and regional expressions treated as speech registers belonging to the daily life of the northeastern people, whether they are dictionaries or not, classified into archaisms, corruptions and lexias of current use contained in the aforementioned work and that still do part of the region's communication process.