The bamburrar of linguistic gold

the semantic-lexical universe of “bamburrado and brefado” lexias in Peixoto de AzevedoMT

Abstract

This article is a preview of the ongoing research project for the doctoral thesis of the Stricto Sensu Postgraduate Program in Linguistics, UNEMAT-Cáceres/MT, under the research line “Studies of Processes of Variation and Change”, and developed in the discipline of Topics in Sociolinguistics. The aim of the article is to analyze, under the theoretical-methodological framework of Variationist Sociolinguistics, two very common lexemes in the city of Peixoto de Azevedo-MT: “bamburrado and brefado”, since the lexicon is considered a resource for expression and social interaction, since it is in the dynamism of the communication process that subjects create, recreate and incorporate the vocabulary of their language. So, for the development of the research, we relied on the theoretical and methodological support of Biderman (1981), Cristianini (2007), Philippsen (2012), among others.  To compile the corpus, we adopted the methodological procedures provided by the Theory of Linguistic Variation and Change proposed by Labov (1972) and Milroy (1987, 1992). We took into account the social context and the spontaneous speech of three subjects with diagenerational and diageneric variation to present us with the semantic meaning of the lexemes researched. In view of these reflections, the importance of this research lies in contributing to a new look at the linguistic variety of garimpeiros, in the mining communities of Peixoto de Azevedo, in order to value it, not only among language scholars, but also to the general public, aiming to promote knowledge of the linguistic richness that integrates the linguistic universe of this delimited group. From the perspective of reflection, this study shows the difference in the lexical semantic meaning of the two lexias presented, from other research already carried out in other places in mining regions.