Tabu Linguístico: análise da lexia morte na comunidade de fala de Santa Rita

Abstract

The present work presents the results obtained in a field research, whose purpose was to discover the variants referring to lexia death. The data were extracted from an interview conducted in the city of Santa Rita, located in BR 135, 70 km from the capital of Maranhão, in order to recognize these variants, as well as to analyze if there are euphemisms or dysphisms present in the informants' speech. We counted on the contribution of 40 interviewees for data collection and analysis. This study was based on the area of sociolinguistics and Variation Theory (Labov, 2008 [1972]), since it makes direct reference to the relationship between language and society, studying the speaking communities and the use of the vernacular, in order to find out if there is taboo in the variable death. For this, we count on the contribution of authors such as Guérios (1979), Ullmann (1977), Martelota (2009), among others, who directly or indirectly contributed to the enrichment of this study. The results of the research made possible a greater proximity to the use of the vernacular, the recognition of the dynamicity of the language in use and the interferences suffered by it at social, cultural, historical and geographical levels.