A língua e a história no conto literário de Lima Barreto

Abstract

This Dissertation has as theme the study of the language, of the history and of the Pre-modernism and takes as object of the research Lima Barreto s literary tale, produced on the twentieth century. It s a research that studies the Portuguese language in use in Brazil, giving privilege to the linguistic characteristics of rupture with the formal language that constitutes the stylistic resources of Lima Barreto, expressed on the tale Harakashy e as Escolas de Java. Our research enters into the Linguistic Historiography area, on the perspective postulated by Konrad Koerner, whose process of analysis of documents is supported by the interdisciplinary between the Linguistics and the History. So, we can recover in that literary document, aspects of the socio-cultural reality by means of the interpretation of the language. In that period of transition to Brazilian Modernism, our sample takes form as a rich document with information for the work of the historiographer of the language, because in the analysis of the structural and macro structural organization of the tale it s clear the cultural, historical and even so, political-social influence of that period of literary production. The textual genre, taken here as study, presents some of the linguistic-historical changes that were reflected on the Portuguese Language, registered by the author, that still characterizes his antipurist manifestations among the academicians of that period. When he uses the metalanguage to refer to his own language, Lima Barreto starts an innovation to the linguistic questions of the beginning of the twentieth century, besides showing the everyday problems of the Brazilian society. In the tale in analysis we find a thematic polemic to the period that it was produced, because the author introduces to the narrative questions about what is human, assuming a tone of denunciation of the facts of the social reality, pronounced by the fiction