A variação diatópica no dicionário escolar

Abstract

This academic project presents a diatopical variation study in school dictionaries. As theoretical support to it, we have based this study on the lexicology, lexicography and linguistic geography approaches. The main objective of this research is to analyze the presence of the diatopical variation in six Portuguese school dictionaries corresponding to collection 3 and 4 assessed in the last edition of the Textbook National Program (PNLD/2012). The option to analyze the diatopical variation in dictionaries is an attempt to produce a vision that takes into consideration linguistic, social and political aspects of the usage of the language. Therefore, the following method has been used: the observation of the usage markers that indicate diatopical variation in the selected dictionaries in order to analyze them based on their megastructural, macrostructural and microstructural aspects; the elaboration of an evaluation form to register the data about the treatment of the diatopical variation in each of the dictionaries as well as the application of a questionnaire to interview students and teachers from private and public schools aiming to observe their attitudes towards the use of the dictionaries. We have concluded that the diatopical variation in the dictionaries need more studies that take advantage of the linguistic geography method so that these studies might produce more reliability to the usage markers that the dictionaries convey. Make dictionaries based on the usage of the language. Train teachers and students to explore the dictionaries productively in the teaching-learning process.