Processos de redução linguística em documentos de Tombo dos séculos XIX e XX de Mossoró-RN: uma Abordagem diacrônica

Abstract

This study deals with a very common phenomenon of the manuscripts writing in the past centuries; the abbreviation. Although it seems that this is a phenomenon that results from continued use of the computer or an immediate trend of globalized era, this research, from the perspective of discursive traditions and language of the text, will show that this is a characteristic of the current time about writing manuscripts, and it is mainly a written tradition of priestly and goes forward to the idea of paper economy, widespread idea on the studies of medieval writing. For the analysis of the information, it was assembled a corpus collected from a main Church in the city of Mossoró, composed by several books, which the first one was analyzed, corresponing to the period of the nineteenth century. As theoretical basis it was used Coseriu (1979), Oesterreicher (2002), Kabatek (2006), the analysis was amde under the theory of Traditions Discursive and under the textual language in which it is considered that all texts are made based on a previous text and existing features of the model can be preserved or not, depending on the needs either of the author or the moment. This study arose from the need of drawing a profile of writing in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in the town of Mossoró. From the results we can state that the writing of tumble books reflects on the historical context in which the spelling did not follow a pattern. According to that, writing was based on the tradition of Portuguese models, which somehow made the abbreviations remain over a long time in the texts of the colonial era.