As ofensas verbais contra mulheres no Sergipe oitocentista : uma abordagem léxico-semântica

• Ano de defesa: 2020
• Autor(a) principal: Pereira, Augusto Petrônio
• Orientador(a): Marengo, Sandro Márcio Drumond Alves
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Pós-Graduação em Letras
• Palavras-chave em Português: Sociolinguística; Semântica; Estilo cognitivo; Metáfora; Crime contra Mulheres; História; Sociolinguística histórica; Semântica cognitiva; Modelos cognitivos idealizados; Metáforas; Ofensas verbais; Projeto Para a História do Português Brasileiro (PHPB)
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Historical sociolinguistics; Cognitive semantics; Idealized cognitive models; Metaphors; Verbal offenses; Project for the History of Brazilian Portuguese (PHPB)
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: LINGUISTICA, LETRAS E ARTES::LETRAS
• Link de acesso: https://ri.ufs.br/jspui/handle/riufs/15219

Verbal offenses serve as a key to access the understanding of the hierarchical and social structure of a given community, whether in current or past times (SHOEMAKER, 2000). Thus, verbal offenses can be considered a terminological subsystem of the language because it encompasses vocabulary, means, meanings and social groups involved (BURKE, 1995; CARNEIRO, 2006). The little knowledge about verbal offenses, especially in past centuries, was what motivated the interest for the execution of this study. For this purpose, we took as a corpus of research criminal cases of verbal offenses in 19th century Sergipe, which were collected from the collection of the Historical Documentation Sector of the Public Archive of the Judiciary of the State of Sergipe. Our focus was on verbal offenses against women. Our objective was to map the lexicon representative of verbal offenses against women in the 19th century, as well as (re) construct, through cognitive semantics (LAKOFF, 1987; SILVA, 2006), the conceptualizations generated by the offenses through their prototypical constitution and categorical (Rosch, 1976, 1978) that end up conforming Metaphorical Idealized Cognitive Models (LAKOFF, 1987). Our work is part of the Project for the History of Brazilian Portuguese (PHPB) linked to the diachronic semantics agenda. After analyzing the data, we conclude that the offenses against women are constructed through two macro-categories (Rosch, 1978) that affect not only the individual value of the female figure but also her social decorum. Metaphorical MCIs (LAKOFF, 1987; WIERZBICKA, 1992; ALMEIDA, 2018) are based, basically, on metaphors of orientation, personification or ontological and structural.