O apagamento do galego na história do português: ação glotopolítica em perspectiva historiográfica

Abstract

This thesis focuses on the origin of Portuguese, more specifically the erasure of Galician in the history told in texts from the 16th to the 19th century. The questions that guided the research were: i. What socio-historical facts are responsible for the erasure of Galician in Portuguese history? ii. Can this erasure be considered a glottopolitical action? In order to guide the path undertaken, the following hypotheses were formulated: i. The erasure of Galician occurs due to the climate of opinion to which authors who deal with the history of Portuguese adhere; ii. This is a glottopolitical action linked to the establishment and maintenance of a memory of the language, as well as the creation of a Latin linguistic identity. That said, the general objective of the work is to promote a rapprochement between historiography and glottopolitics, having as its object of study the erasure of Galician in the history of Portuguese. Aiming to conceive this scope, the following specific objectives were established: Develop a state of the art of studies related to the theme of Galician in the history of Portuguese; Discuss aspects inherent to glottopolitics, based on a historiographical perspective; Discuss aspects inherent to linguistic historiography, based on a glottopolitical perspective Analyze metalinguistic texts from different centuries, aiming to verify the erasure of Galician in the history of Portuguese; Interpret, in the light of linguistic historiography, to what extent this erasure can be considered a glottopolitical action. From a methodological point of view, the research is characterized as documentary and bibliographic (Gil, 2002) and, from a procedural point of view, it is based on the principles defined by Koerner (2014 [1974, 1987, 1993, 1994, 1995]) and the phases defined by Swiggers (2009; 2010). As for the corpus, it is composed of texts with a metalinguistic content that circulated in the aforementioned period, among which grammars, dialogues, pamphlets, historical grammars and scientific articles stand out, depending on the century being worked on. The results show the intrinsic relationship between the climate of opinion and the conduct of authors who formulate their narratives based on the interests and preponderant world viewsin the contextsin which they operate