“Onde você mora?”: um estudo hodonímico dos logradouros do município de Farroupilha/RS

"Where do you live?": a hodonymic study of the streets of the city Farroupilha/RS

Abstract

Knowing and understanding the motivations behind the choice of certain names to designate a particular place is a way of studying the social, cultural, and historical factors that are part of it, and therefore, preserving significant and particular memories of the people who inhabit it. For that reason, the main objective of this article is to analyze, from a historical, linguistic, and sociocultural perspective, the names given to the streets, avenues, and alleys of Farroupilha, a city located in Rio Grande do Sul. For this purpose, a documentary study of the historical and sociocultural aspects is carried out, with emphasis on migratory processes, as well as on the current characteristics of the municipality of Farroupilha; in other words, the process of tertiary occupation by Italian immigrants in the XIX century until the city development in contemporary; a bibliographic analysis of the area of toponymy based mainly on the works of Dauzat (1947), Seabra (2006), Marcato (2009), Frosi (2009), Zamariano (2012) and Isquerdo (2019); the classification of hodonyms according to previously defined taxonomies, based on Dick (1990) and an analysis of the motivation resulting from the naming of each thoroughfare. After completing each stage mentioned above, some conclusions were reached: the public administration values almost exclusively local people when naming, in other words, people who contributed to the construction and development of the municipality; also, it portrays history and culture, especially that of Italian immigrants, in the names given to the streets. Finally, this study contributes to the construction of knowledge about urban microtoponymy in the Italian Colonization Region of Rio Grande do Sul and presents an interpretation of the street names for the researched community.