Alphonsus de Guimaraens: o vocabulário neológico em sua obra

Abstract

The aim of this work is to map the neologic vocabulary in Alphonsus de Guimaraens s literary production to offer a contribution towards the creation of a linguistic glossary adding to the Dictionary of the Literary Neologisms of the Brazilian Portuguese by professor Evandro Silva Martins. This is a bibliographical research in which it is done the study of some processes of the neologic creation, sustained by Alphonsus de Guimaraens s poetry and prose. It is started from the hypothesis that Alphonsus de Guimaraens, through his neologic creation, promotes a certain rescue of the Portuguese Language, either by revisiting meanings, or by creating new meanings for old words, or even creating new words. The semantic neologism usually comes from a lexical basis previously existent in the language; however it assumes a new sense, due to its new context. Therefore, there is a great importance of the context for the good neologic interpretation. Seeking to reach the specific objectives of this research, we look for checking Alphonsus de Guimaraens s contribution for the lexicon of the language and which of his semantic neologisms are capable to subsidize the elaboration of the proposed dictionary. Methodologically, it is made, firstly, a neologic extraction in the author's work, then we check their appearance in the dictionaries that are selected as the corpus of exclusion. Next, we choose which words may form the glossary checking the gender and how many times these words occur. Then it is made a listing of the existent bases in the corpus of exclusion and, soon after, it is made an analysis of the linguistic or cultural notes around these words followed by an analysis of the sense of the same ones inside of that context. The results prove the hypothesis of Alphonsus de Guimaraens s neologic creativity, particularly founded through the literary esthetics of the Symbolism, as well as the aims of our research. It is also inferred that Alphonsus de Guimaraens s great neologic creation happens, in consequence of the historical, political and literary moment (of profound search of the lost values in the deepest soul states) in which this author lived. Hence it can be seen the sovereignty of the context as explanatory of the new terms and re-significance of the old ones. Alphonsus de Guimaraens s contribution for the perenniality of the literary neologisms found in the Brazilian Portuguese will have, no doubt, according to the neologic observatory delimited by the major project by professor Evandro, a distinguished place in that dictionary.