Lexical variants for mãe de leite in the states of Amazonas and Bahia

• Autor(a) principal: Sousa, Adriana Maria de Jesus
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Outros Autores: Paim, Marcela Moura Torres
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Moara (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufpa.br/index.php/moara/article/view/9068

The article presents a dialectical study, with emphasis in the semantic-lexical area, that focuses the answers given by the informants from Amazonas and Bahia to question 128 - Quando a mãe não tem leite e outra mulher amamenta a criança, como chamam essa mulher? (COMITÊ NACIONAL, 2001, p. 31) – of the lexical semantic questionnaire of the Brazilian Linguistic Atlas Project, aiming to verify the coincidences and lexical divergences between the informants and to examine the possible motivations for the lexical choices, associated with the social history and the ethnic formation of the population of the studied cities. It is based on the theoretical and methodological assumptions of the Pluridimensional Dialectology, according to Cardoso (2010). The result of the research demonstrated the relevance of this geolinguistic investigation to the knowledge of the lexical norm of a geographic space. In addition, the alternative forms used by the different informants were presented to refer to the lexias that represent the same semantic content.