Historiografia-linguística da influência de Edward Sapir na construção do ideário linguístico de Joaquim Mattoso Câmara Júnior

• Autor(a) principal: Almeida, Raquel Queiroz de
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFG
• Texto Completo: http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tede/12467
• topic: Sapir; Mattoso; Influência; Historiografia-linguística; Historiography-linguistic; Influence; LINGUISTICA, LETRAS E ARTES::LINGUISTICA::LINGUISTICA APLICADA

This dissertation shows the contributions of Edward Sapir's studies in the construction of concepts such as language, culture, drift and style present in the works of Joaquim Mattoso Câmara Júnior. For this, the historiographical-linguistic method will be used, verifying the continuity of the concepts between Edward Sapir and Câmara Júnior. Historiography-linguistics, when it makes use of historiography, seeks to understand the factors that influenced the thinking that enabled the emergence of a theory and/or its incorporation into specific investigative practices. An important methodological issue of linguistic historiography will be worked on here: “Influence”, which is based on shared experiences, education and the climate of opinion, on the one hand, and direct influence, on the other hand, which can be documented with based on explicit references, text comparison, public acknowledgments, and so on. Through the recovery of the linguistic concepts already mentioned in certain works by Joaquim Mattoso Câmara Júnior, a comparison is established between the study developed by him and that of Edward Sapir, thus realizing the consequences of the studies of the North American author. Notably, the sources in Câmara Júnior's work are marked, thus having a public recognition of the authors referenced by him, facilitating the attribution of the present ideas to Sapir. It is believed that this is not only due to the quotations, but also due to the discourse he constructed regarding language and language studies at that time. Câmara Júnior focused on the idea that languages ​​are products of culture, in an anthropological view of language initiated by Edward Sapir in the United States. Therefore, language is the instrument used by the speaker to express himself within a group, creating representations of reality as a process of exteriorization of thought. Câmara Júnior, when considering the individual manifestations socially apprehended and incorporated into the general language, is based on Sapir's concept of drift, indicating that this innovation is not just an interpretation arising from a latent change in the collective language, but is also the effort of the speaker to express himself in the most appropriate way possible to the circumstances in which he finds himself, in an attempt at personal creation that will differentiate his linguistic manifestation in relation to the rest of the group.