THE SOCIODIALECTAL DIMENSION IN THE LEXICON OF THE BRAZILIAN LINGUISTIC ATLAS

Abstract

It’s possible to speak of lexical mobility today, lexical flow, lexical continuum due to speakers’ communicative mobility. In fact, the lexicon is an important dimension in which it is possible to map the variability and measure its productivity. In this article, we take into account the lexicon as an object of study for a sociodialectal analysis of the lexical item “cigarro de palha”, which integrates the semantic field “Gatherings and Social Behavior”, from the Lexical and Semantics questionnaire (QSL) of the national project Linguistic Atlas of Brazil (ALiB). It is a geolinguistic multidimensional approach that aims to draw a lexical map that shows diatopic, diastratic, diageneric and diageneration variation of the lexical item under analysis. The result of the work points to changes in the management of the Brazilian dialectal space due to a methodology that integrates ALiB’s social stratification nationally.

Keywords

• Lexical variation
• Multidimensional geolinguistics
• Linguistic Atlas of Brazil