O purismo na virada do século XIX para o XX: a polêmica linguística sobre a redação do Código Civil de 1916

• Autor(a) principal: Manolio, Adriana
• Data de Publicação: 2018
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da PUC_SP
• Texto Completo: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/21776
• topic: História das Ideias Linguísticas; Linguística - História; Língua portuguesa - Brasil; History of Linguistic Ideas; Linguistics - History; Portuguese language - Brazil; CNPQ::LINGUISTICA, LETRAS E ARTES::LETRAS::LINGUA PORTUGUESA

This study is in the the History of Linguistic Ideas research line and aims to discuss the linguistic purism in the controversy over the writing of the first Civil Code of Brazil. This controversy is raised between the jurist Rui Barbosa and the grammarian Ernesto Carneiro Ribeiro. The objective of this work is to examine the issues discussed in relation to neologisms, Gallicisms and archaisms, since they are linguistic facts identified together with the phenomenon of purism. Besides examining these issues from the point of view of purism in that period, this study will also analyze the contributions of this conflict to the Brazilian linguistic knowledge. In this way, a brief introduction of the theoretical assumptions of the History of Linguistic Ideas is initially made, continuing with the contextualization of the historical moment when the linguistic discussions about the Civil Code took place, which is the transition period from the nineteenth century to the twentieth. Then, this article presents the main linguistic conceptions that influenced the Brazilian intellectuals of this period, highlighting the comparative-historical method that inspired the Portuguese language grammatization in Brazil and the process of awareness of the national language. After that, the analysis focuses on the neologisms, Gallicisms and archaisms that were the object of discussion between Rui Barbosa and Carneiro Ribeiro, with the description of the position of each in view of the purist conceptions. It is observed that the linguistic purism had an influence on both authors. The examples presented by these authors are mainly of classic Portuguese and often Latin writers, in order to justify their preference for one or the other form of the words discussed. However, beyond the paradox between the denial of theory and the purist practice of authors, this study concludes that the contribution of the controversy to the formation of Brazilian linguistic knowledge was, in fact, to raise enormous literary corpus at a time in which the study of the Portuguese language in Brazil was advancing and seeking to detach itself from Lusitanian influences