Estudo filológico e linguístico das unidades fraseológicas do judiciário colonial brasileiro

Abstract

This research aims at a philological and linguistic study of the phraseologic units (PU’s) related to the specialised language used in Brazilian colonial judicial system, relative to XVIII and XIX centuries. The study comprises the semi-diplomatic edition of the documents that compose the analysis corpus, composed of 133 Autos de Querela (registers of conflicts) written between 1779 and 1829. It also comprises the structural description of the documents, the historical contextualization of the state of Ceara, the analysis and interpretation of social-historical data related to parties served and to the types of crimes perpetrated. It also includes a glossary of the PU’s used in law processes. For the selection of the PU’s we used the WordSmith Tools software, an electronic tool of Corpus Linguistics, which enabled us to establish occurrence frequencies for the classification of a PU. The research contributes to the philological studies, in the interdisciplinary perspective, whose object is the written text, analysed under different dimensions, be them linguistic or extralinguistic, by considering the cultural and socio-historical realities which reflect the tradition of a people