Um saber semioticamente construído: a visão de mundo no léxico do Quilombo Jamary dos Pretos - Turiaçu/MA

Abstract

In Brazil and, more specifically, in Maranhão, current Quilombos or Quilombo communities are among the human groups that develop denominational and, more commonly, conceptual peculiarities as a result of specificities that emerge from their ethnic, historical, cultural, social and geographical constituency, as well as of diverse experiences built with their peers, with the other, with the surrounding space and, ultimately, of its worldview. From this presupposition, this research of empirical, descriptive and qualitative nature, aims to identify and analyze denominational specificity and especially specific semantic-conceptual lexicon from Jamary dos Pretos, in the city of Turiaçu/MA, which reveals the uniqueness of the worldview semiotically constructed by this group, from the theoretical and methodological orientations of Semiotics (GREIMAS, 1973, 2008), (HJELMSLEV, 1975), Ethnolinguistics (SAPIR, 1912, 1921, 1929), (POTTIER 1970), (HYMES, 1962, 1964) and Ethnoterminology (BARBOSA, 1993, 2004, 2007, 2009), (PAIS 1995, 2003). More specifically it is analyzed the lexical-semantic relations and, especially, the semantic-conceptual established in 24 (twenty four) lexical units constituent of this research - distributed in the semantic fields territoriality, human type, ritual/spirituality, power, work/entertainment, disease, leisure, clothing, manner – based on ethnicity and cultural, historical practices, and social characteristics of the formation of Jamary dos Pretos in order to identify the semantic features assigned, extended or waived by this group to represent their world’s conception . For this, it is based on an oral corpus consisting of 24 (twenty four) interviews - eighteen (18) performed with quilombolas and six (06 ) with non-quilombolas, and crumbles apart, by usage of cards , the different proces’s stages of lato sensu conceptualization of each of these lexical units. As a result of the data analysis of this research, it is presented an overview of the particular world view from Jamary dos Pretos, which reveals the particularities of ethnic-cultural, historical and organizational significance of this Quilombo, attesting, therefore, that denominational and conceptual specificities of the lexicon of this group are converted into signs-symbols of its axiology.