Variação lexical nos dados do Projeto Atlas Geossociolinguístico do Amapá

Abstract

This paper aims to describe, map and analyze the lexical variation of the Brazilian Portuguese spoken in Amapa, based on project data Geossociolinguistic Atlas of Amapa (ALAP). The research follows the theoretical and methodological postulates of multidimensional dialectology (THUN, 2000), a geossociolinguística approach (RAZKY, 2003). The data analyzed here under the geo-social perspective, make up the corpus of the Geossociolinguistic Atlas of Amapa - ALAP. We selected 10 points surveys, and interviewed four informants by location. Informants are divided into two groups corresponding social variables: gender (male and female) and age (18-30 years and 50-75 years). For the interviews was applied Semantic-Lexical Questionnaire. Through the collected and processed data, we selected 15 lexical items related to six semantic fields. They considered three types of analysis to the data: spatial (geographical), social (variables age and sex) and comparative. The latter type of analysis aimed to compare 11 lexical items ALAP design to data released by ALiB project. Spatial analysis (geographical), it was found that in Amapa there is a strong lexical plurality to designate a same item, however, there is a restricted geographical boundaries the realization of lexical variants found. About social analysis, it was observed that the age variable tends to generate more variability that sex. About compared to ALiB data they recognize that most of the data found in ALAP complement and coincide with the data published by ALiB.