Toponímia maranhense: um percurso semiótico do texto ao contexto sócio-histórico

Abstract

The intent of this paper is to present semiotic aspects of the text in the toponymy of the municipalities of Maranhão, based on the greimasian theory. We examined the internal organization of the expression plane of the text, through the analysis of the elements that integrate the verbal and nonverbal signs and the relations between the expression plane and content plane to observe how enunciation is established. We observed that this enunciation is presupposed in discourse by means of the marks left on the generative course of sense, in which we noticed the procedures for selecting the themes and figures in the fundamental structures and the conflict sustained by ideological formations that are put in place throughout the construction of the text. We realized, through analysis, that the choices made during the enunciative process imprint a peculiar ideological character to the text, with its own values.