Traces of memory and writing from the Brazilian colonial period in an official letter written in the eighteenth Century
This paper is an analysis of an official letter from the eighteenth century, detailing lexias showing the cultural aspects of the captaincy of Goiás in the colonial period of Brazil, upheld by Salles (1992). The semi-diplomatic edition of the letter was based on criteria available in Megale and Tol...
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doaj-9dea6227301a4f5d952807162ccc7fef2020-11-24T22:44:49ZengUniversidade de São PauloFilologia e Linguística Portuguesa1517-45302176-94192013-02-01132459476http://dx.doi.org/10.11606/issn.2176-9419.v13i2p459-47658678Traces of memory and writing from the Brazilian colonial period in an official letter written in the eighteenth CenturyVanessa Regina Duarte Xavier0Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil This paper is an analysis of an official letter from the eighteenth century, detailing lexias showing the cultural aspects of the captaincy of Goiás in the colonial period of Brazil, upheld by Salles (1992). The semi-diplomatic edition of the letter was based on criteria available in Megale and Toledo Neto (2005) and its objective was to compose a reliable source of linguistic research. We also comment on the official letter and on how the social hierarchy of the period influenced the structure of discourse (Berlinck; Barbosa; Marine, 2008). And, finally, we highlight some graphematic variation in the text, indicating that official documents are also helpful in studies of linguistic variation, because the writing contained in them reveals the influence of orality (Mattos and Silva, 2008).http://www.revistas.usp.br/flp/article/view/59896PhilologyHistoryMemoryGraphematic Variation |
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Vanessa Regina Duarte Xavier Traces of memory and writing from the Brazilian colonial period in an official letter written in the eighteenth Century Filologia e Linguística Portuguesa Philology History Memory Graphematic Variation |
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Traces of memory and writing from the Brazilian colonial period in an official letter written in the eighteenth Century |
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Traces of memory and writing from the Brazilian colonial period in an official letter written in the eighteenth Century |
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Traces of memory and writing from the Brazilian colonial period in an official letter written in the eighteenth Century |
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Traces of memory and writing from the Brazilian colonial period in an official letter written in the eighteenth Century |
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Traces of memory and writing from the Brazilian colonial period in an official letter written in the eighteenth Century |
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traces of memory and writing from the brazilian colonial period in an official letter written in the eighteenth century |
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Universidade de São Paulo |
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Filologia e Linguística Portuguesa |
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1517-4530 2176-9419 |
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2013-02-01 |
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This paper is an analysis of an official letter from the eighteenth century, detailing lexias showing the cultural aspects of the captaincy of Goiás in the colonial period of Brazil, upheld by Salles (1992). The semi-diplomatic edition of the letter was based on criteria available in Megale and Toledo Neto (2005) and its objective was to compose a reliable source of linguistic research. We also comment on the official letter and on how the social hierarchy of the period influenced the structure of discourse (Berlinck; Barbosa; Marine, 2008). And, finally, we highlight some graphematic variation in the text, indicating that official documents are also helpful in studies of linguistic variation, because the writing contained in them reveals the influence of orality (Mattos and Silva, 2008). |
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Philology History Memory Graphematic Variation |
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http://www.revistas.usp.br/flp/article/view/59896 |
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