Fraseologia e estilo: um estudo sobre as máximas do Marquês de Maricá

Abstract

This present work has as the object of study the subject of the book “Máximas, Pensamentos e Reflexões do Marquês de Maricá”. It intends to show that Maricá’s Marquis maxims exhibit a style marked by comprehension simplicity, by clearness and by concision, although the maxims are suited to pattern norms of the language and they are illustrative of many figures of speech, what sets it up as an expressive product about style. The maxims were chosen to be the goal of this study because of its relevance in the use of these characteristics. In the first moment, it shows Maricá Marquis and how it arrived in his writings; posteriorly it approaches Fhraseology and phraseologicals statements concepts, introducing a brief concept of maxim; subsequently it exposes 70 selected maxims, those were chosen randomly. They are followed by thematic, stylistic and morphosyntatic survey, what provides a peripheral and a central view.