An ethnolinguistic study on names for “gambá” (skunk) in Brazilian Midwest Region: contributions from ALiB Project

Authors

  • Daniela de Souza Silva-Costa
  • Aparecida Negri Isquerdo

Keywords:

Lexical norm, Midwestern Brazil, gambá, ALiB Project.

Abstract

This study aims to investigate, according to geolinguistc and lexical-semantic views, the designations documented in Midwestern Brazil used to refer to “the animal that smells bad when it feels threatened”: gambá, mucura, jaratataca, mixila and raposa, extracted from ALiB Project database (question 71 of the Semantic-lexical Questionnaire) in order to verify the influence of extra linguistic elements on them, as well to investigate the relation between these names and the referent mentioned. The analysis showed a great relation between the social-historical aspects of the localities and the lexicon of their inhabitants, corroborating that language behaves indeed as a social product, disclosing features of elements of settlement and demonstrating that the linguistic norm in use shows the way of life and thinking of a certain community.

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Published

2016-04-04

How to Cite

Silva-Costa, D. de S., & Isquerdo, A. N. (2016). An ethnolinguistic study on names for “gambá” (skunk) in Brazilian Midwest Region: contributions from ALiB Project. Estudos Linguísticos (São Paulo. 1978), 41(2), 779–792. Retrieved from https://revistas.gel.org.br/estudos-linguisticos/article/view/1196

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Sociolinguística e Dialetologia