The Name of the Language in the 19th Century Brazilian Scenario

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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2236-4242.v32i1p81-106

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Brazilian Portuguese, First References, 19th Century, Secular Language, Scientific Language

Abstract

This paper reports the first references about the Brazilian Portuguese in linguistic and non linguistic texts published in the 19th century. In this sense, the paper draws judgment on individual studies about the characteristics and origins of the so-called Brazilian dialect, whether in the context of essays published in scientific and cultural diffusion journals, or in chronicles and articles published in the most relevant journalistic journals, including references in the field of the Portuguese grammatization. The conclusions points that the 19th century society deals with two concepts on the nature of Brazilian Portuguese: a secular one, in which the notions of language as system and language as human attribute intersect in a reference to Portuguese as a social communication instrument distinct from other linguistic systems, such as “língua brasílica”; a scientific one, in which the geolinguistic notion of dialect prevails to characterize the Brazilian Portuguese in contrast with the European Portuguese.

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2019-04-23

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Vol. 32 No. 1 (2019): An Invitation to the History of Sciences of Language

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CAVALIERE, Ricardo. The Name of the Language in the 19th Century Brazilian Scenario. Linha D’Água, São Paulo, v. 32, n. 1, p. 81–106, 2019. DOI: 10.11606/issn.2236-4242.v32i1p81-106. Disponível em: https://journals.usp.br/linhadagua/article/view/152662.. Acesso em: 17 may. 2024.