Toponímia oficial e toponímia espontânea nos nomes de escola de Missal- PR

Abstract

Language allows man to order and mean the world around him and by using it we can name reality and attribute meaning to our experience. Besides that, language is used in each community to represent the local reality. Thus, people name the elements in order to represent what they experience, printing, in the names, indications of their stories, cultures and social facts. This work aims to present partial results of scientific initiation research which seeks to discuss and analyze how schools are named in the municipality of Missal-PR, this study is unprecedented in the onomastic area. This article seeks to examine official and spontaneous toponyms attributed to the schools of the municipality under study. The corpus of this work was formed by names of nine schools, the municipality has, in all, fifteen schools. One of the schools whose name had been analyzed in this article is located in the center of the city because it was designed to be close to the church. Eight schools are located in the interior of the municipality, two in districts and the others in villages and communities. We use documentary investigation to achieve the proposed objective, namely: to know the toponymic motivations of the names of schools, taking into account the historical, cultural and ideological influences that influenced the choice of these names. As theoretical support we used the toponymic contributions of Dick (1992) and Bastiani (2016).

Keywords

• official toponomy
• spontaneous toponymy
• schools