Gramatização do português brasileiro nos séculos XIX e XX e início do século XXI

Abstract

This study aims at providing a general overview in what concerns the studies on grammatization of the Brazilian Portuguese. We assume that the legitimization of the grammatical knowledge over the centuries have backed linguistic unit into a corner and must not be acceptable to defend the presence of a single language in different territories. For this purpose, we rely on Orlandi’s assumptions (2002) to deal with the grammatical discourse in its historical relationship with the subject and its positions; in Auroux (1992) to conceive the grammatization such as a process in which grammars and dictionaries are technologies and then, later, to place emphasis on the Contemporary Brazilian Grammars of the Portuguese. Thus, as analytical corpus, we focus the New Grammar of the Brazilian Portuguese, by Castilho (2010), and the Pedagogical Grammar of the Brazilian Portuguese, by Bagno (2012) in order to verify, through its introductions and summaries, the stances assumed by the linguists before the role played by manuals at stake nowadays and how the grammatical discourse of these manuals project the paths of its successors in 21st century. Moreover, it is of our interest to measure the extent to which there is a split with the grammatical tradition so the first Grammar is declared as “new” and the last one anticipates in its title some commitment to the pedagogical practice, i.e., to the education.