"That evil word, the evil": how the lexia "diabo" became a taboo in the spoken Portuguese in Maranhão State
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https://doi.org/10.5433/2237-4876.2009v12n1p343Keywords:
Lexicon, Religious Linguistic taboo, Maranhão spoken Portuguese.Abstract
This work, guided by theoretical and methodological principles of sociolinguistics and dialectology, and developed with the corpus collected by the Linguistic Atlas of Maranhão/ALiMA in some towns of Maranhão State, focuses on the religious linguistic taboo based on question 159 of the lexical-semantic questionnaire of the ALiMA which verifies the different names for "diabo". It examines how that lexia became a taboo, and tries to identify resources used by speakers to escape the taboo lexia. The Maranhão linguistic-cultural universe is read, seeking to investigate the extent to which variables of diatopical, diageneric, and diageracional types, and religious orientation, interfere with the use of the lexia "diabo".
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