Elos Portugal e Brasil: João de Barros e Anchieta

Abstract

This article aims to weave considerations about existing moments of approximation and distantness between João de Barros´ Grammatica da Lingua Portuguesa and Jose de Anchieta´s Arte da Gramática da Lingua mais usada na Costa do Brasil based on Koerner´s and Swiggers´ Linguistic Historiography methodological procedures. It deals with the XVI century focusing the unveiling of the dominant ideology, on the grounds that the dominant´s language is always the one which is related to this ideology. The results of the survey point to the following directions: 1. the verification that the clerical ideology was so strong that superimposed the Portuguese government; 2. the confirmation that the ideological power of a group acts more actively over the subject-author of the text than over its own convictions; 3. the perception that traces from the imposing and doctrinal forces, external from the analyzed texts, were registered.