As pesquisas sobre o português falado em Minas Gerais em 125 anos de história (1889-2014)

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to present a historiographical analysis of the set of works that investigated, from 1889 to 2014, different linguistic phenomena of the spoken Portuguese language in the state of Minas Gerais. The adopted theoretical assumptions are the studies of Historiography of Linguistics according to Altman (1998, 2012), Batista (2013), Koerner (1995, 2004), and Swiggers (2009, 2013). The corpus of analysis is made up of books, theses, and dissertations that, under different methodological approaches, set out to investigate different phenomena of the oral Portuguese in the state. Data collection took place in electronic pages of graduate programs, collections of libraries, and databases of IBICT and CAPES. The analysis of the assembled works establishes a timeline in three phases: the first, from 1889 to 1937; the second, from 1938 to 1976; and the third, from 1977 to 2014, being the last one the most fertile for language production on the oral modality of the Portuguese language. It is also observed that graduate research, especially at the Master level, is the responsible for a sharp increase in linguistic research on the subject, which took place mainly from the early years of the twenty-first century.