Methodological reflections for the sociocultural analysis of writers in historical corpora

Abstract

This article presents a discussion on the methodological procedures in the productive process of reconstruction of socio-cultural profiles of writers from the past synchronicities Portuguese. It is intended to reflect about the implementation of social categories (gender, age, educational level, nationality, place of birth of the author) to writers of handwritten letters and printed texts, pointing out the struggles and methodological approaches implemented in the development of a Portuguese Historical Sociolinguistic.

Keywords

• categorias sociolinguísticas
• o método na sociolinguística histórica
• os corpora históricos.