A língua portuguesa no Brasil e os elementos históricos representativos da identidade do homem nordestino em Vidas Secas de Graciliano Ramos

Abstract

This dissertation has as theme to study the issue of the relationship: language, history, identify social condition and take as objective analysis Vidas Secas from Graciliano Ramos, produced in the configuration of small stories in 1937 and published in 1938 as a novel. It is therefore a search to the study of the Portuguese language in use in Brazil in the 30 s with regard to the historical a social mark that manifest as expressive features in the novel we have selected. Our research is based on the Linguistics Historiography, in the perspectives identified by Konrad Koerner, because, among others aspects, contemplates the relationship that Linguistics establishes with the history for observation of the language Accordingly, the research aims to examine the sample selected as, in the twentieth century, the language in use in Brazil tells portrayal of the man, assuring him an identity socio-historical-linguistics at the same time as identifying in size internal document, the social-cultural condition of the native Brazilian man from northeastern of backwoods. Vidas Secas is taken as a document not only to be inserted in a historical context-cultural, but also contains information by linguistic, political and social of a time. A decade of 30, in the history of Brazil, can be considered critical from political a social point of view, because there is an ideological tension between socialists and reactionary of the dictatorship Vargas. Thus, the tragedy of Fabiano and his family, in Vidas Secas , expressed, in fact, the moving fatality of Brazilian society since then