Axiotopônimos: um estudo dos logradouros públicos da cidade de Betim (MG)

Abstract

This research aims to analyze and describe the axiotoponyms registered in the public places of the city of Betim. Based mainly on Dick (1990a e b), Seabra (2004 e 2006), Gontijo (2017) and Faria (2017), its relevance is due to the absence of specific studies on this tax, within the ATEMIG project (Toponymic Atlas of the State of Minas Gerais), as well as the absence of research focused on the toponymic description of cities in the Metropolitan Region of Belo Horizonte (RMBH). The corpus of this research is made up of 133 lexical bases found in the Municipal Council's Cartography sector database. It is also planned to investigate cases of maintenance and toponymic change, based on the analysis of the laws of approval of the official names of the city's streets, and cases of toponymic variation, by comparing official data, registered by the Municipal Council, with unofficial data, registered by Google Maps and the street signs. The data referring to each one of the researched axiotoponyms are gathered in toponymic cards, following, mainly, the models of Filgueiras (2011) and Faria (2017). The main results show that 83% of the personalities honored are male and refer to people who, in general, had some historical representation for the state of Minas Gerais or for Brazil, having, for the most part, some political or military action. The distribution of axiotoponyms among the city's regionals shows the predominance of these denominations in the Central Regional, the most urbanized part of the city and attests to a fact already pointed out by toponimic studies that toponyms motivated by people's names tend to characterize, prototypically, the denomination of urban public spaces. Furthermore, the results show a higher frequency of toponymic maintenance and reinforce Faria's (2017) thesis that axiotoponyms could be considered a subtax of anthropo-axiotoponyms.