Toponímia dos primeiros municípios tocantinenses
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2016-03-31
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Universidade Federal de Goiás
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The toponym field, a sub-area of Onomastics, studies the names of places, their meanings and
origins, the changes and motivations which influence the process of choosing those names.
This study presents a toponym investigation regarding the first cities in the state of Tocantins,
the ones that started and established themselves from gold mining in the 18th century. It also
approaches the names of rivers – hydronymy – in the region due to the significance of them in
the establishment of the cities. Since, in most cases, waterways are the first environmental
elements named. Afterwards, their names become the identification of urban settlements by
the riverside. This study aims to identify senses and motivations that influenced the process of
naming these places. To that end, toponyms shaping this Onomastics system were described,
analyzed and interpreted, observing that, because of their specific role in referencing and
identifying things in a geographic space, they are not ordinary signs of language, they are
instruments of ideological propagation at the same time. Hence, this investigation has gone
beyond theoretical Linguistics, it employs an interdisciplinary viewpoint, in which there is an
intersection among history, geography and other knowledge areas. Thus, we searched for a
methodology that enables combining these areas as to treat the linguistic phenomenon. We
have decided on using principles of Historic Linguistics with sociocultural traces, in the
Onomastics method perspective and along with Wörter und Sachen (Words and Things), since
they are both theories that approach semantics as related to history and culture. Data
collection, which has been carried out through historiography written documents, sustained
toponyms existence before and nowadays. These documents allowed a historical retreat of
facts that encouraged the toponym choice and retrieve possible meanings. Aspects regarding
beliefs, cultural values, ideologies, geographic features, and cognition were identified as the
motivation when choosing the names of the first cities in Tocantins. These factors reflect
themselves in the toponym linguistic structure, translating the dominant intentionality when
naming places. Besides, toponym of the region observed preserve a world-view and an
ideology of power perpetuation, mainly related to politics and religion, from the very
beginning and with slight changes throughout the history. Therefore, it is a collective memory
repository, because it records significant aspects of life in society, representing a valuable
linguistic-cultural heritage.
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DIAS, Ana Lourdes Cardoso. Toponímia dos primeiros municípios tocantinenses. 2016. 208 f. Tese (Doutorado em Letras e Linguística) - Universidade Federal de Goiás, Goiânia, 2016.