Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: FELIPE MORAIS DE MELO

Uma banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO de DOUTORADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
DISCENTE : FELIPE MORAIS DE MELO
DATA : 15/12/2017
HORA: 14:00
LOCAL: SALA 321- DEPARTAMENTO DE LETRAS - CCHLA
TÍTULO:

THE WRITING TRACKS IN THE OFFICIAL LETTERS OF RIO GRANDE DO NORTE (1713-1950) - THEORY OF (ORTHO) GRAPHY, CORPUS LINGUISTICS AND HISTORICAL GRAPHEMATICS

PALAVRAS-CHAVES:

Historical Linguistics. Official letters of Rio Grande do Norte. Theory of Writing. Corpus Linguistics. Graphematics.

PÁGINAS: 135
GRANDE ÁREA: Linguística, Letras e Artes
ÁREA: Linguística
SUBÁREA: Teoria e Análise Linguística
RESUMO:

  Higounet (2003) states that the writing is at the foundation of the human sciences. For a discipline, in particular, that integrates the studies of language, the Historical Linguistics, the writing is the cornerstone. Without the written records that have survived throughout history, there would be no diachrony of language. Nevertheless, very little effort among the diachronic studies in the lusophone domain has been dispensed to the writing as an autonomous linguistic object and not as an instrument for another purpose (historiographic or phonetic, for example), perhaps reflecting the idea found in some classical linguistic works according to which there was a supposed (ortho)graphic chaos in the Portuguese of past synchronies. This work intends, therefore, to contribute with this field of research addressing the written language by three means: reflection, constitution and analysis. As far as reflection is concerned, a critical review of the treatment of written language in linguistic studies is undertaken, and the main ideas focused on in this study about the functioning of writing are examined, especially as regards its mechanism in the history of language. The authors responsible for these main ideas to think a theory of the writing that allows to understand, with the greatest precision, its operation, mainly in the diachronic axis, are notably: Vachek (1989b, 1989c, 1989d) for a linguistic theory of writing; Cagliari (1996, 2001, 2001b, 2001c, 2001d, 2004, 2015) for a theory of orthography; Frago Gracia (2002), Sánchez-Prieto Borja (1998, 1998b, 2008) and Ramírez Luengo (2012b, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2015b) for a theory of (ortho)graphy concentrated on Historical Linguistics. As for the second medium, constitution, a diachronic corpus is revised and re-edited, the official letters of Rio Grande do Norte (Morais de Melo, 2012), generating a set of approximately 26,000 words in 129 letters, from which 44.18% are unpublished. All the documents of this re-edition were written in Rio Grande do Norte between 1713 and 1950 and will be presented in facsimile and semidiplomatic edition with a justalinear lesson. Concerning the third and last path, analysis, a study of the use of alphabetic graphemes without phonemic transcendence is carried out on those words for every quarter of a century during the 250 years that the official letters cross, and according to 52 fixed patterns of analysis, like the pattern {V<N>C-[<h>/<s>#]} to control the use of <m> or <n> before certain consonants, and the pattern {C<ãe>#/<s>} for the examination of the graphematic productions of value /ãj/. A software  developed for this research will run the 52 patterns over the approximately 26,000 words in order to verify the existence of graphical tendencies or, on the contrary, to confirm the alleged state of (ortho)graphic chaos. The first impressions taken from this conjunction between Theory of Writing, Corpus Linguistics and Graphematics, all at the service of Historical Linguistics, seem to indicate: 1) the scarcity of works in the lusophone world that perform graphematic analyzes in diachrony in which there is apllication of reflections on the mechanisms of written language; 2º the existence of a series of graphic trends and a process of standardization of the written Portuguese language that counter any assumption that there was (ortho)graphic chaos in the old script. Thus, two goals are born: a) to gather theoretical information useful for investigations in Historical Graphematics (a term coined in this thesis for the research in Graphematics inside the field of Historical Linguistics), suggesting methods for its application; and b) to trace the graphic tendencies manifested in the official letters of Rio Grande do Norte in the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries, as well as the ongoing process of standardization, examining them duly in the light of the theories of writing.

MEMBROS DA BANCA:
Interno - 2226795 - MARIA HOZANETE ALVES DE LIMA
Externo ao Programa - 1057540 - CARLA MARIA CUNHA
Externo à Instituição - MARIA DA CONCEIÇÃO CRISOSTOMO DE MEDEIROS GONÇALVES MATOS FLORES - UnP