O Que Se não Deve Dizer : um estudo sobre as atitudes e crenças nas colunas de Cândido de Figueiredo

Abstract

This thesis intends to analyze, from a historical perspective based on the imaginery sociodiscursive of Patrick Charaudeau (2008), the literary work written by Cândido de Figueiredo, O que se não deve dizer", that is composed by a collection of reportage columns, of the same name, published in Jornal do Commercio between the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The concept was chosen as a corpus of study the genre grammatical consulting that could be defined as a metalinguistic text, whose main characteristic is the presence of group of question / answer set and the consultant/consultant pair. During the research, an attempt was made to analyze how the purist beliefs, normativism and the obvious option for the language unit between Brazil and Portugal influenced the imaginary of of Cândido de Figueiredo about the Portuguese language. The analysis conducted has demonstrated the healthy purism as healthy normativism and both can be related to the linguistic policy process. In addition, a brief historical context about the orthographic proposals, as well was commented the importance of a linguistic policy that could be standardized the current spelling. As a result, the research has revealed that the attitudes and beliefs of the columnist about the Portuguese language, and the ethos created by the author were fundamental to influence, and captivate, the readers of the column