Língua portuguesa, Língua brasileira: atitudes e crenças de José de Alencar e Mário de Andrade

Abstract

This thesis intends to deal with some of the attitudes and beliefs that José de Alencar and Mário de Andrade cultivated concerning the language of Brazil, from observations and studies that consider the linguistic alterations registered during the colonial and post-independence periods. They are personal ideas and substantial facts, supported by the aspiration of grammar that stamps Brazilian expression into the Brazilian Portuguese language. Both writers have the feeling of a nation being consolidated, bringing sufficient examples of linguistic maturity, and leading them to claim the right to make the uses and customs of Brazilian speakers grammatical, in an attempt to demonstrate that the variations from that point already had their own distinctions, arising from the necessity to name the new land; register the linguistic diversity that was becoming established and the variations in dialect; and show the transformations in syntax, phonology and vocabulary