The Linguistic Atlas of Brazil (Atlas Linguistico do Brasil - ALIB) na the Small-Domain Atlas: Comparisons and Contrasts

Abstract

The primary proposal of a national atlas such as the Linguistic Atlas of Brazil is the systematic collection of dialectal data covering a vast territory, a country, in the perspective of linguistically characterizing a broader reality. On the other hand, small-domain atlases focus on issues of a more local/regional nature present in a specific region, circumscribed in a broader territory; these works are responsible for providing the scientific community with a possible effect of dialectal zoom, sometimes not contemplated in larger atlases. In this discussion, the present study proposes the analysis of the coincident cartography between the ALiB (Atlas Nacional Brasileiro - Brazilian National Atlas), and ten other small-domain atlases for the designations for dragonfly (libélula). Based on the analysis and discussion, it is initially proposed for the Brazilian reality the reorganization of the terminology of the linguistic atlases for six types of atlases: continental, language groups, national, regional, state, and small-domain/local.

Keywords

• Classification of linguistic atlases
• Large-domain atlases
• Small-domain atlas
• Designations for dragonfly