Antônio Vieira e o léxico cristão: perspectivas descritivas na história da língua portuguesa

Abstract

In the Portuguese development path, there is the strong presence of the Christian movement contributing directly in the language transformation process. Since the end of the Roman Empire to the language of legitimacy in the sixteenth century, the Portuguese experienced strong interference of Christianity, whether it is creating its own vocabulary or lexical meaning of uses that do not belong directly to the Christian movement. From the vocabulary selection present in the Sermons of Father Antonio Vieira, can be identified in the Portuguese language of the seventeenth century the presence of a Christian lexicon established since the language training in the thirteenth century. With the social changes from the emergence of numerous strands of Christianity, other influences were perceived, demonstrating that the drift in a language is something constant and dynamic. The monitoring of lexical changes from the Latin Christian to the Portuguese of the seventeenth century demonstrates the wealth in the transformation of language even today