A busca do saber linguistico nas primeiras escolas femininas católicas da cidade de São Paulo

Abstract

The end of the nineteenth century brought many advances to São Paulo society, to keep up with the progress the elite started to demand more refined education for their daughters, so that they could no longer behave following the Portuguese colonial tradition in fashion at the time- because it didn t combine with more urbanized society. Thus, women should not only deal with the house and employees, she had to be nice at meetings and therefore it has become necessary to learn how to read, write, talk about music, painting and learn the rules of etiquette and everything that fits a lady in society. It was necessary a new profile for women suitable for this new society, without compromising their soul, moral and religion. The model of education followed by these young women of society was French, because it represented a good education without vocational, modern or feminists ideas. This study is about the Portuguese language program taught at Colégio Nossa Senhora de Sion between 1944 and 1947 in order to analyze the way Linguistics was taught in that women s institution. Besides the analysis of Portuguese material found at Sion, a historical, cultural and social investigation from the end of 19th century to the 1st half of the 20th century was made, aiming at understanding a woman s behavior, her role in the society and the reason for São Paulo elite s choice of catholic institutions for their daughter s education, future ladies of society. 11 The História das Idéias Lingüistícas (the History of Linguistic Ideas) was chosen as theoretical basis in order to support this dissertation, in such way that Linguistics and History are interconnected in the course of this study