Designations for the daily bread

the lexical norm from Brazilian Portuguese based on ALiB Project corpus

Abstract

this article aims to identify possible general and regional lexical norms from the description and analyse of spatial variation to the popularly denominated “french bread”, on a geolinguistic and lexical and semantic perspective. For that, the adoption of the view of linguistic norm, based on Coseriu (1979), added to Camara Junior (1964), Rona (1969), Cunha (1987) contributions, among others. The diversity of nomination for this food has been documented throught 186 question from Semantic-Lexical Questionnaire (SLQ) of Questionários (COMITÊ NACIONAL DO PROJETO ALiB, 2001) applied by crews that compose the Project Linguistic Atlas of Brazil (ALiB), on 250 Brazilian localities (countryside and capitals). On this analysis, they were selected 1000 informants with Primary education, diassexual and diageracional dimensions. Based on linguistic cartography and comparation of lexicals variants dissemination and the consultation to varied dictionaries, they were identified general and regional forms, in addiction to interethnic influences and migratory moviments traces. Furthermore, the observation of the polymorphy of designations, result of presence of the referring in Brazilian daily, certifying the relevance of this aliment, consumed since the beginning of the history of civilization.