Editing documents and vocabulary study of jerked beef in southern Brazil: a contribution to the history of Brazilian Portuguese

Author(s)

Cátia Schreiner

• Document type: Doctoral Thesis
• Press: São Paulo.
• Institution: Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD)
• Defense date: 2012-06-28

Examining board members

Manoel Mourivaldo Santiago Almeida; Ieda Maria Alves; Cesar Nardelli Cambraia; Ataliba Teixeira de Castilho; Rogério Luiz de Souza

• Advisor: Manoel Mourivaldo Santiago Almeida

Abstract

This research seeks to study the charque jerked beef vocabulary in southern Brazil, proposing a discussion over influences and contributions of such lexicon and in forming and expanding the variety of Brazilian portuguese. For this study, which was both exploratory and descriptive, it was used manuscripts and printed documents, both ancient and modern, oral material, portuguese dictionaries as well as linguistic atlases. The methodology employed starts off from philology, through facsimile and/or semidiplomatic editings of written documents, from which the charque vocabulary arises, reaching its lexicographic study. The linguistic atlases and their methodologies are the basis for a field research, analyzing the lexia charque in the investigated communities. From the list of the charque vocabulary, collected in the documents, atlases and field research, the study aims, specifically, to compose a glossary and to develop a diachronical analysis of its content, comparing the meaning of the listed lexia to those found on dictionaries from 18th, 19th, 20th and 21st century. The analysis of these data is made in light of philological, lexicographical and geolinguistical studies. This research can also raise a discussion about the level of influence of the dialeto caipira rustic dialect of São Paulo in southern Brazil, considering the bandeirante, monçoeiro and tropeiro muleteer movement with the charque economy. (AU)