O funcionamento discursivo dos verbetes “índio” e “indígena” em dicionários regionalistas

Abstract

This study aims to understand the meaning effects attributed to the entries índio and indígena in regional and Portuguese language dictionaries. For this, we mobilized as object of studies the dictionaries Dicionário de Regionalismos do Rio Grande do Sul and Dicionário Gaúcho Brasileiro, since these are instruments of stabilization of discourses, besides an interesting place to observe the ways of saying a society, as well as the Dicionário Houaiss de Língua Portuguesa, for being a dictionary that represents, even if imaginarily, the Portuguese language of/in Brazil. From the perspective of Pecheuxtian line Discourse Analysis, articulated to the History of Linguistic Ideas (HIL), we seek to understand the discursive memory that supports these entries, identifying erasures, re-meanings and how these representations determine indigenous subjects, especially in the context of Rio Grande do Sul.. Considering our theoretical affiliation, we understand the dictionary as a discourse about language, which is not transparent and is crossed by social, ideological and historical. For the analytical development, we adopted the "word-pulls-word" to extend the analysis to related entries. Our observations show that, in the regional gaucho context, the term índio is resignified and associated with the man of the field, silencing its ethnic and historical origins, while the indigenous term appears detached from the regional reality. We understand that dictionaries act as spaces of circulation and exclusion of meanings, materializing dominant discourses and their ideological effects.