Lexical mapping of portuguese spoken in Amapá

a study on the semantic field "Human body"

Abstract

The present work aims to map and analyze the lexical variation of the semantic field of the Human body, data that belong to the Linguistic Atlas of Amapá – ALAP. The study is anchored in Dialectology, using Modern Geolinguistics as a method, in charge of mapping linguistic varieties through linguistic charts (Cardoso, 2010, p.15). The research relied on lexical data that have already been collected by ALAP. A total of 40 informants were selected, distributed in ten locations in Amapá, according to age group and gender. The authors of this research analyzed the data in Excel spreadsheets and the linguistic cartography was done in the graphic design software Inkscape. The lexical variation found showed that only in the “míope” and “dente do siso” items there was a different lexical predominance, respectively called “falta de visão” and “dente do juízo”. On the other hand, the items pálpebras, pomo-de-adão, canhoto, seios, útero, rótula and cócegas, the predominant denominations were standard variants.