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Saudações Tapirapé: expresões do Tekateka
Author(s) -
Eunice Dias de Paula
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
signótica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2316-3690
pISSN - 0103-7250
DOI - 10.5216/sig.v21i2.9158
Subject(s) - politeness , courtesy , linguistics , sociology , portuguese , categorization , indigenous , face (sociological concept) , grammar , ethnolinguistics , vitality , anthropology , philosophy , ecology , theology , biology
A revisita de autores aos postulados de Boas, Sapir e Whorf por meio da Etnossintaxe, possibilita que possamos analisar, descrever e compreender aspectos lingüísticos das línguas indígenas intrinsecamente relacionados com a sociedade e a cultura nelas indiciados. Neste artigo apresentamos o sistema de saudações utilizado cotidianamente pelos Tapirapé, povo indígena de Mato Grosso. Este sistema apresenta bastante vitalidade, embora a língua se encontre em situação de risco frente ao Português. À luz dos referenciais teóricos da Antropologia e da Lingüística Antropológica (Boas, Sapir e Whorf e, mais recentemente, Hymes) e da Etnossintaxe (Enfield, Wierzbicka e Pawley entre outros), a análise dos dados nos mostra que as saudações traduzem os traços de polidez, cortesia e gentileza profundamente arraigados no modo de ser – tekateka – dos Tapirapé. Nowadays it is acknowledged that culture and grammar, or more extensively, language and culture cannot be seen apart of each other. The field of Ethnosyntax, brought to light by the beginning of the 1990´s decade, provide us with the tools to comprehend how human beings categorize, think and use their languages in unique ways in their daily lives. This paper presents the greetings system used daily by the Tapirapé, an indigenous people of the state of Mato Grosso. Although the language is at risk in face of the increasing contact with Portuguese, that system has a significant vitality and importance among them. The data analysis under the theoretical framework of Anthropology and Anthropological Linguistics (Boas, Sapir and Whorf, and more recently, Hymes) and of the so called Ethnosyntax (Enfield, Wierzbicka and Pawley) shows us that the greetings, by reflecting the traits of politeness, courtesy and kindness are deeply rooted in the way of being a – tekateka – a Tapirapé

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