Indianist anthroponymy in Alencar's corpus: an etymological, fictional, and contextual analysis
Drawing from the perspective of Contextual Fictional Etymology, in this paper we analyze four Indianist anthroponyms, namely, Irapuã, Coatiabo, Maranguab and Abaeté, found in the works O Guarani, Iracema and Ubirajara by José de Alencar. For this purpose, we draw from the theoretical framework of On...
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| author | Maria Virgínia Dias de Ávila Ariel Novodvorski |
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| description | Drawing from the perspective of Contextual Fictional Etymology, in this paper we analyze four Indianist anthroponyms, namely, Irapuã, Coatiabo, Maranguab and Abaeté, found in the works O Guarani, Iracema and Ubirajara by José de Alencar. For this purpose, we draw from the theoretical framework of Onomastics (DICK, 1999), Contextual Fictional Etymology (AUTOR, 2018), Lexicology (BIDERMAN, 2001; VILELA, 1995) and Corpus Linguistics (BERBER SARDINHA, 2004, 2009; AUTOR, 2014). To extract the Indianist anthroponyms, we used the WordSmith Tools software (SCOTT, 2012) and some resources of the Genre/Historical version of Corpus do Português (DAVIES, 2006). We considered as Alencar’s anthroponymic etymons the indigenous names created by the author in his works. Towards this end, two criteria were considered: first, the words should not be part of exclusion dictionaries, which publication predates Alencar's works; second, the words should appear in the Corpus do Português (DAVIES, 2006) as having its first occurrence in texts written by Alencar. The creation of anthroponymic etymons by Alencar enabled him to attribute to the indigenous characters not only a name, but also the physical and/or psychological features intended by the author. Therefore, from the perspective of Contextual Fictional Etymology, the study of Alencar’s anthroponymies also entails some knowledge about the language possibilities and the author’s creativity, by means of a lexicon that enabled the expression of his ideals. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-84a0bb377dd640568d6f8d15bb33f6d72023-02-02T10:24:22ZengPrograma de Pós-Graduação em Estudos LinguísticosDomínios de Lingu@gem1980-57992021-06-0115247450010.14393/DL46-v15n2a2021-857021Indianist anthroponymy in Alencar's corpus: an etymological, fictional, and contextual analysisMaria Virgínia Dias de Ávila0Ariel Novodvorski1Universidade Federal de UberlândiaILEEL/PPGEL/UFUDrawing from the perspective of Contextual Fictional Etymology, in this paper we analyze four Indianist anthroponyms, namely, Irapuã, Coatiabo, Maranguab and Abaeté, found in the works O Guarani, Iracema and Ubirajara by José de Alencar. For this purpose, we draw from the theoretical framework of Onomastics (DICK, 1999), Contextual Fictional Etymology (AUTOR, 2018), Lexicology (BIDERMAN, 2001; VILELA, 1995) and Corpus Linguistics (BERBER SARDINHA, 2004, 2009; AUTOR, 2014). To extract the Indianist anthroponyms, we used the WordSmith Tools software (SCOTT, 2012) and some resources of the Genre/Historical version of Corpus do Português (DAVIES, 2006). We considered as Alencar’s anthroponymic etymons the indigenous names created by the author in his works. Towards this end, two criteria were considered: first, the words should not be part of exclusion dictionaries, which publication predates Alencar's works; second, the words should appear in the Corpus do Português (DAVIES, 2006) as having its first occurrence in texts written by Alencar. The creation of anthroponymic etymons by Alencar enabled him to attribute to the indigenous characters not only a name, but also the physical and/or psychological features intended by the author. Therefore, from the perspective of Contextual Fictional Etymology, the study of Alencar’s anthroponymies also entails some knowledge about the language possibilities and the author’s creativity, by means of a lexicon that enabled the expression of his ideals.http://www.seer.ufu.br/index.php/dominiosdelinguagem/article/view/57021indianist lexicon. contextual fictional etymology. indianist anthroponymy. corpus linguistics. |
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| title | Indianist anthroponymy in Alencar's corpus: an etymological, fictional, and contextual analysis |
| title_full | Indianist anthroponymy in Alencar's corpus: an etymological, fictional, and contextual analysis |
| title_fullStr | Indianist anthroponymy in Alencar's corpus: an etymological, fictional, and contextual analysis |
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| title_short | Indianist anthroponymy in Alencar's corpus: an etymological, fictional, and contextual analysis |
| title_sort | indianist anthroponymy in alencar s corpus an etymological fictional and contextual analysis |
| topic | indianist lexicon. contextual fictional etymology. indianist anthroponymy. corpus linguistics. |
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