Atlas Linguístico de Pernambuco (ALiPE)

Abstract

The Northeast is the Brazilian region with the largest number of states and was the birthplace of the Portuguese colonization in Brazil. Inside it, there is Pernambuco, which took active participation in several episodes in the History of Brazil. In addition, the State has a considerable popular culture, beginning with his speech visibly imitated. Therefore, it is necessary to store this linguistic culture through a methodology appropriate to the data collection that cover the geographical space of almost 100,000 km2. So, this thesis seeks to document this characteristic speech with the creation of the Linguistic Atlas of Pernambuco, in order to keep alive the memory of the language of the state and offer subsides to minimize the scarcity of Geolinguistic works about the Pernambucan speech. Daring to characterize this state atlas as belonging to the fourth generation, the theoretical assumptions of the contemporary Dialectology were followed under the auspices of the Multidimensional Geolinguistic methodology (THUN & ELIZAINCÍN, 2000) and after the choice of twenty survey points distributed throughout the Pernambuco territorial extension the standard questionnaire from the Project Linguistic Atlas of Brazil (ALiB) was applied, to which lexical semantic questions of specific themes from the culture of the state namely frevo, maracatu, renascença and barro were also added. The eighty-four informants were chosen on the basis of criteria recommended by Cardoso (2010), with the age group from 18 to 30 years and from 50 to 65 years and school lower to the sixth year of primary school, adding the capital informants with university studies completed. After transcription of the surveys, six introductory letters and 105 language letters were built, divided into 50 phonetic, 47 semantic-lexical and 8 morpho letters, which enabled an analysis of the most relevant events.