Toponymy in the General Language and Identity in the Bragantine Amazon of Pará
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https://doi.org/10.48075/odal.v7i1.36438Keywords:
toponymic naming, Amazonian General Language, linguistic memory, identity, Amazonian toponymyAbstract
This article analyzes toponymic naming in Amazonian General Language (Língua Geral Amazônica – LGA) in the municipality of Bragança, Pará, Brazil, considering it as a linguistic and symbolic practice that articulates linguistic memory and sociocultural belonging in an Amazonian context. The study is based on the assumption that naming exceeds a merely referential function and constitutes a historically situated linguistic act. The corpus comprises 91 place names recorded in Araújo (2019), from which 15 items were selected for qualitative analysis according to morphological, semantic, and representativeness criteria. The theoretical framework draws on conceptions of naming as a linguistic and symbolic act (Benveniste, 1989; Coseriu, 1982), articulates the taxonomic classification of toponymic motivation proposed by Dick (1980, 1992), and adopts a functional-discursive perspective of language (Travaglia, 2002; Neves, 2018) to examine the relationship between lexical forms, sociocultural context, and meaning production. Methodologically, the analysis combines the systematization of the corpus with a qualitative interpretation of selected toponyms, considering processes of lexical hybridization and historical continuity of LGA in the linguistic landscape of Bragança. The results indicate that LGA-based place names preserve elements of collective memory and function as indices of cultural continuity at a local and regional scale.
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