Convergências lexicais: a área dos olhos no Atlas Lingüístico Galego e no Atlas Lingüístico do Paraná

Abstract

This article presents some points of convergence between the lexical variants of two geolinguistic corpora: volume V of the Atlas Lingüístico Galego - ALGa (García et alii 2005) and the Atlas Lingüístico do Paraná – ALPR (Aguilera 1994) together with the Atlas Lingüístico do Paraná II - ALPR II (Altino 2005). Within the Human Body semantic field, items referring to the eye area were examined. Geolinguistic and lexicological methods were used in the analysis, since we were looking for information about spatial distribution and lexical documentation of variants common to both corpora. The analysis indicated that certain variants surviving in rural Paraná speech are linked to Galician forms, and that some metonymic and lexical creation processes act similarly in both languages. We also found analogous sociolinguistic features of the lexical item capela in three different language areas: Galician, European Portuguese and Paraná dialect. This convergence is illustrated by (i) the diatopic distribution of variants such as capela in the dialect of Paraná and its presence, though sparse, in Galician, (ii) the attribution of more than one meaning to the same concept, such as pestana which, according to both atlases, may mean either ‘eyelid’ or ‘eyelash’, and (iii) the creation of folk terms through semantic extension or the use of more generic terms such as piel ‘skin’, tapa ‘cover’, papo ‘maw’ (in ALGa) and pele ‘skin’, couro ‘hide’ (in ALPR) rather than the learned form pálpebra ‘eyelid.’