Tradições discursivas em edições semidiplomática e modernizada de cartas das vilas de Cairu e Camamu do século XVIII

Abstract

This research aims to present the study of discursive traditions through semi-diplomatic and modernized editions of 33 letters referring to the towns of Cairu and Camamu and dated from the 18th century (1715–1799), belonging to the collection of the Overseas Historical Archive (AHU) and cataloged by the Resgate project in 2009. The AHU letters circulated among public authorities, political representatives, and the Portuguese Crown, who kept up to date with events and deliberations regarding these locations and expressed demands from residents, land grantees, and Jesuits, in addition to recording reports on the survival strategies of indigenous settlements. The research is part of the areas of Philology and Historical Sociolinguistics, based on the study of the context of social and cultural history recorded in the narratives of letters, referring to the development of the towns of Cairu and Camamu from Castro (1995), Cambraia (2005), Gumbrecht (2007), Maia (2012), Gonçalves (2017) and Telles (2018), as well as Coseriu (1967), Koch (1997) and Kabatek (2001; 2010; 2011) within the scope of discursive traditions. The semidiplomatic edition was prepared based on previously established editing criteria to meet two purposes: to propose an editorial product for consultation by other researchers and to constitute corpora to identify linguistic samples and qualitatively and quantitatively analyze the data that are expressed in the regularities of the linguistic acts present in these texts. The modernized edition was produced with a view to publicizing the results of the research to a non-specialist audience. Diplomatic comments on the composition of the documental type of letter and paleographic comments on the writing of these texts are also presented, which support the philological and linguistic analysis. At the end, a sample of the texts presented is presented based on a theoretical-methodological prospectus on the discursive traditions found in the letters, according to linguistic mapping guided by the computational tool Wordsmith tools, which identified a list of 42 lexical and grammatical items with repetition value in the texts and 25 keywords, of which six were analyzed, in the mediate and immediate context of production.