MARCAS DE RELIGIOSIDADE NA TOPONÍMIA RURAL DE MATO GROSSO DO SUL: discutindo a questão dos mecanismos de classificação semântica

Abstract

OLIVEIRA, Letícia Reis de. Religiosity marks in the toponymy of Mato Grosso do Sul: discussing the matter of semantic classification. 2021, 301f. Thesis (Doctorate in Letters) – Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul, Três Lagoas, Campus, 2021. ABSTRACT Toponymy, the branch of Onomastics that studies toponyms, proper names of places, endeavors to unveil the meanings of the proper names of places, taking into consideration linguistic and extralinguistic motivations. In order to do so, it is assumed that the naming of places can register facts from the “human spirit” (DICK, 1992), among others, religiosity, as well as characteristic elements of the “physical and social environment” (SAPIR, 1969) in which the denominator finds itself. The study subject of this dissertation is the toponymic of rural human accidents in Mato Grosso do Sul, with religiosity marks. The study corpus is made up of 3,355 toponyms with a religious motivation, extracted from IBGE’s (Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics) official maps, which refer to the 79 counties that compose the investigated area, scale of 1:100,000 of the human accidents in rural areas (farms, farmsteads, resorts, retreats, villages, towns) in Mato Grosso do Sul. The general goal of the research is to analyze the toponyms of religious nature in the toponymy of rural human accidents in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul, considering the taxonomy and the mechanisms of semantic classification (reference point and denominative cause), the morphological structure and the linguistic base of the specific term of the toponymic syntagma. In order to do so, the dissertation searches for answers to three hypothesis: i) the toponymic analysis based on the semantic classification mechanisms is effective for the elucidation of the meaning of the toponyms as it contributes to minimize ambiguities, especially in the case of the toponyms formed by complex lexical units ii) the toponomy of human accidents of religious nature in rural areas incorporates characteristics of the regional lexicon and elements of the local culture iii) most of the toponyms of religious nature follow the general pattern of the Brazilian toponomy of religious character. The research was guided, mainly, by the theoretical and methodological contributions of Dauzat (1926), Leite de Vasconcellos (1931), Stewart (1954), Backheuser (1949-1950), Sapir (1969), Dick (1990 1992 1997), Carvalho (2014), Anjos (2012), Ananias (2018) and Isquerdo and Dargel (2018; 2020), Sgarbossa (1983), Attwater (1991), Megale (2002 2003 2011) and Azevedo (2012). Moreover, the data was collated with results obtained by Dick (1990; 1992), Carvalho (2014) and Ananias (2018), in the search for answers for the third established hypothesis. The results indicate the greatest productivity of toponyms with religious motivation, classified according to the following taxes (DICK, 1992): hagiotoponyms (86,47%), the most recurrent of which are: São José, Santo Antônio, São João, Santa Maria, Santa Rita and Santa Rosa hierotoponyms (11,17%) with a high preference for the patroness of Brazil, Nossa Senhora Aparecida mitotoponyms (0,11%) represented by the toponym Iara. The most productive toponymic reference points (DICK, 1997) were: hagiotoponymic (79,79%) hierotoponymic (10,40%), as well as the ones proposed in this dissertation: hagio-numerotoponymic (19,29%) hagio-hidrotoponymic (10,61%) hagio-phytotoponymic (8,60%) hagio-antropotoponymic (6,43%) hiero-corotoponymic (5,78%) hagio-geomorphotoponymic (4,89%) hagio-zootoponymic (4,18%) hagio-litotoponymic (3,53%) hagio-sociotoponymic (2,57%) and hiero-numerotoponymic (2,57%). The denominative causes found attest to the devotion of the sul-mato-grossense people, as well as the denominator’s look over the physical and social environment, including ownership marks. In summary, the results attest that the adopted proposed analysis proves effective for the examination of the investigated toponymic clipping, especially for the description of toponyms formed by complex lexical units. Furthermore, the religious toponymy of Mato Grosso do Sul reaffirmed the Portuguese historical heritage and the state’s social historical influences, materialized in the toponymic lexicon.

Key-words: Onomastics Toponymy rural human accidents religiosity semantic mechanisms ATEMS.