A língua portuguesa na medicina do Brasil colonial: um estudo de historiografia da linguística

• Ano de defesa: 2025
• Autor(a) principal: Pazinato, Patricia
• Orientador(a): Bastos, Neusa Maria Oliveira Barbosa
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Programa de Pós-Graduação em Língua Portuguesa
• Departamento: Faculdade de Filosofia, Comunicação, Letras e Artes
• País: Brasil
• Palavras-chave em Português: Medicina colonial; Naturalismo colonial; Historiografia linguística; línguas indígenas; Português colonial
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Colonial medicine; Colonial naturalism; Linguistic historiography; Indigenous languages; Colonial portuguese
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CNPQ::LINGUISTICA, LETRAS E ARTES::LETRAS::LINGUA PORTUGUESA
• Link de acesso: https://repositorio.pucsp.br/jspui/handle/handle/45507

This thesis is theoretically grounded in Linguistic Historiography, a discipline whose methods, as established by Koerner (1996) and Swiggers(2009), made it possible to outline the object of study, namely: the colonial lexicon in medical and naturalist texts form the 16th and 17th centuries. It also draws on the theoretical framework developed by researcher Altman (2003), whose ongoing studies have explored the conceptions and meanings historically attributed to the Portuguese Language. The aim was to explore, in colonial manuscripts, the interplay between European and Indigenous lexical items within records of medical and naturalist knowledge, bringing to light the conceptions and meanings attributed to the Portuguese Language. The hypothesis the multilingualism within colonial medical and naturalist discourses fostered a lexical expansion and redefinition across communicative, educational, political, cultural, and social domains was formulated as a response to the guiding question of this study: how was the tension between the European lexicon and Indigenous terms expressed in the records of these practices within the colonial context? The corpus was composed of Letters (Cartas) by José de Anchieta (1554-1594) and the Historia Naturalis Brasiliae (1648) by Willem Piso e Georg Marcgrave. This investigation into the conceptions and meanings attributed to the language and lexicon contributes to the constitution and transformation of Colonial Portuguese, through the distinctive features of its publications and the broadening of interdisciplinary interfaces the connect linguistic, historical, cultural and scientific knowledge. The analysis carried out according to Koerner’s contextualization and immanence – highlights numerous linguistic operations undertaken by Dutch and Jesuit agents to address both practical concerns and political-governmental demands. Linguistic instruments such as grammar, dictionaries, glossaries, and word list demonstrate the value attributed to the language and its ongoing standardization efforts. Whereas treatises and letters reflect classical literary models, recipes reveal popular practices of transmission medical knowledge highlighting distinct modes of textual legitimization and knowledge circulation. Linguistic actions aligned with a colonial project are observed, notably through the systematic omission of sources related to Indigenous peoples. The principles and methods of Linguistic Historiography proved effective in addressing this issue, enabling both the reconstruction of circulation narratives and the opening of new theoretical and methodological horizons for ongoing research