Pommersche Korpora: uma proposta metodológica para compilação de corpora dialetais

Abstract

The aim of the present study was mainly to compile corpora of Pomeranian in Brazil, with the adoption of a wide range of sources for the composition of a set of various textual corpora and spoken corpus in order to contribute to the Pomeranian documentation. Our two specific objectives were to try to identify the survival or disappearance of the Pomeranian in the target regions of our research – Vale do Rio Doce/MG and Vale do Rio Pardo/RS – and briefly compare the Pomeranian collected in these two regions. To achieve the aforementioned objectives, the study is theoretically based on Lexicology and Corpus Linguistics (CL), especially the theories behind the approach-methodology of CL. In addition, owing to the interdisciplinary nature of this research, we have contemplated the notions of Sociogeolinguistics (SGL), field of study that supported our collection of oral data. The principles of empiricism and descriptivism have also inspired our work. Among our references are the studies of Biderman (1978, 1992, 2001), Sinclair (1991, 2004), Fillmore (1992), Barbosa (1991), Sánchez (1995), McEnery e Wilson (1996), Berber Sardinha (2000, 2004, 2009), Tognini-Bonelli (2001), Tagnin (2001, 2004, 2005, 2010), Stubbs (2001), Brum-de- Paula e Espinar (2002), Fromm (2003, 2010), Feitosa (2005), Lemnitzer e Zinsmeister (2006), Perini (2006, 2008), Gonzalez (2007), Cristianini (2007, 2012), Teixeira (2008), Zavaglia e Welker (2013), Marcuschi (2008), Raso e Mello (2009), Parodi (2010), Cardoso (2010), Viana (2010), Alves (2011), Mello (2012), Araújo (2012), McEnery (2013), Takano (2013), Almeida (2014), Von Borstel (2014), Novodvorski e Finatto (2014) e Novodvorski (2015). Our methodology involved the collection, compilation, transcription and processing of textual and spoken data as well as the writing conversion to a single standard. It was also necessary to adapt the questionnaires to collect the spoken data, which are the Sociolinguistic Questionnaire (SQ) and the Lexical-Semantic Questionnaire (LSQ), the latter in the German version is called Lexikalisch-Semantischer Fragebogen (LSF). Additionally we organized all the compiled data as a unit, carried out the coding, classification, grouping, separation and regrouping of the data. The following four research hypotheses were formulated: the Pomeranian is not agraphic; the speakers are found in rural areas, and the presence of Pomeranian speakers in urban areas may be non-existent in some locations; the Pomeranians intermingling with other ethnic groups may allow linguistic interference; the contact of Pomeranian’s descendants with the Portuguese language has allowed interference to the point of there being a Brazilian variety of Pomeranian speech. The results point to the confirmation of three hypotheses. At last, we have made a group of corpora called Pommersche Korpora (PK) that contains fourteen textual corpora and one spoken corpus. We also made some previous analysis about language facts driven by the corpora. It is apparent that our work enabled the detection of the existence of a Pomeranian variety in Brazil with Portuguese, German and dialectal (other German varieties) influences, in other words, the existence of a Brasilianisch-Pommersch, based on evidences found in the PK. We finish our work giving some future directions for the study of Pomeranian.