Abstract

CALDAS, Raimunda Benedita Cristina  and  FERNANDES, José Guilherme dos Santos. THE STONES FROM MY HOMEPLACE: AN INCURSION INTO THE NAMES OF PLACES CARRYING ITÁ THROUGHOUT THE ORIENTAL AMAZON. Lingüística [online]. 2015, vol.31, n.1, pp.25-37. ISSN 2079-312X.

This paper discusses semantic-discursive relations in names of places with the name Itá in Eastern Amazon. It is inserted within the domain of Linguistic research, whose lexicological approach is involved among the other investigations of intercultural relations of litotoponyms in historical and anthropological contexts of the peoples which formed that particular region. The recurrence of the name Itá in denominations of sites in the Eastern Amazon region is related to the geological formation of the area as well to what the word “stone” – in Tupi-Guarani: itá – represents in the lexical and cultural constitution of the peoples forming this region. The selected corpus, deriving from field research in the Gurupi region, located between the states of Pará and Maranhão, were analyzed with respect to their origins and to the toponymic motivation (Dick 1990, 1991), seen as intercultural aspects of the studies of these place names

Keywords : Litotopônimo ita; Amazônia Oriental; Motivação toponímica; Litotopônimo ita; Oriental Amazônia; Toponimic motivation.

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