Em busca de áreas dialetais brasileiras: jogando “bolinha de gude”

Abstract

This article presents some interesting aspects of Brazilian linguistic studies, delineation of dialectal areas. Thus, this work investigates the responses of informants Linguistic Atlas of Brazil – AliB – to the question 156 of the Semantic-Lexical Questionnaire, to seek to ascertain the ways of naming “round thingies glass that boys like to play” (COMMITTEE NATIONAL ... 2001, p.34). The methodology consisted in the following steps: a) reading of theoretical texts concerning the proposed topic; b) selection and training of the corpus; and c) corpus analysis to identify the diatópicas variations to trace isoglosses boundary of possible dialectal areas, from the collation established with similar studies. The analysis sought to identify and study the lexical items found, to check the lexical selection made by said atlas informants, to determine the dialectal division Springs (1953), based on studies by ALiB researchers, the namely Ribeiro (2012), Portillo (2013), Roman (2015) and, finally, Santos (2016). It is noteworthy that the analysis of the corpus enabled perform the registration and documentation of lexical diversity of the Portuguese spoken in different regions of the country.