DINÂMICAS DA TOPONÍMIA URBANA: UM ESTUDO DA REGIÃO DO BANDEIRA EM CAMPO GRANDE/MS

Abstract

The lexicon, a set of words in a language, plays a key role in the process of naming people and places. In the context of place naming, it plays a crucial role in assigning names that relate to meanings and categories, thus building a symbolic representation of the inhabited space. In this context, toponyms, names assigned to geographical places such as cities, rivers, mountains, streets, avenues..., incorporate meanings historically constructed by the denominators. Toponymy is a discipline of the Onomastic that deals with the study of proper names of places, their origin and evolution. Toponymy, given its character, maintains interfaces with geography, history, anthropology, among other areas of knowledge, and, because of this, plays an important role in preserving the history, memory and cultural identity of a region. This study focuses on the names of public places (such as neighborhoods, parcels, streets, avenues and thoroughfares) in the urban region of Bandeira, located in the city of Campo Grande/ MS, using as theoretical basis the principles of Onomastics, with emphasis on Toponymy. The research adopts the theoretical and methodological assumptions proposed by Dick (1990a; 1990b; 1996, 1998; 1999; 2006; 2004), aligned with the project of the Toponymic Atlas of the State of Mato Grosso do Sul (ATEMS), to which this study is associated. The corpus analyzed was obtained by consulting official maps of the city of Campo Grande/ MS, provided by SEMADUR, an organ of the Municipal Council of Campo Grande. The data were partially analyzed according to quantitative and qualitative dimensions. This Qualification Report has a first quantitative analysis, expressed by means of tables and graphs that provided data about the language of origin, the taxonomy and the morphological structure of the toponyms of the urban region of Bandeira that, in turn, it houses 11 neighborhoods, 113 parcels and 1858 townhalls. In the qualitative analysis, the semantic motivation of the toponyms was considered, as well as the discussion about the relationship between the social, cultural and political history of the city and the toponymic trends identified in the data. The partial results of the research pointed to the tendency of anthropocultural taxonomies, being the most productive the anthropotoponyms, the chorotoponyms and the axiotoponyms. In terms of toponyms of physical nature, the phytophonisms, lithotoponyms and hydrotoponyms are highlighted. The trend observed in anthropocultural taxonomies aligns with the characteristics of urban toponymy of the city of Campo Grande/ MS, already carried out in other regions of Campo Grande (Central, Imbirussu, Segredo, Prosa and Anhanduizinho).