Cancioneiro do sertão: o vocabulário dos cordéis de Franklin Maxado

Abstract

This thesis produced 854 entries on the vocabulary of the backlands of Franklin Maxado, a writer from Feira de Santana, Bahia, after answering two research questions: What contributions can the systematization of the backlands vocabulary in Franklin Maxado's works offer to the documentation of the author's collection? And to what extent does the study of Franklin Maxado's lexicon reflect the culture and customs of the backlands man? The corpus was delimited from three collections of backlands, dating from the mid-1970s to 2022. There are 204 backlands belonging to the researcher, 23 were constituted by the library of the Casa Museu do Sertão and 09 erotic ones also from the same place, but written under the pseudonym K. Gay Nawara, totaling 236 texts. The entries of the entries were selected with the help of the AntConc program, which listed the lexias and their frequency in the author's texts. The research is supported by the parameters of Lexicology, Lexicography and Metalexicography (Biderman, 1978; 2001; Rey-Debove, 1984; Vilela, 1995; Barbosa, 2001; Porto Dapena, 2002; Isquerdo, 2006, Zavaglia, 2012, Barreiros 2017 and others) for the elaboration of lexicographical works and brings a discussion on popular literature, cordel literature, folklore, as well as the nomenclatures cordel and folhalho, based on studies on culture, orality and cordel in Brazil and Portugal, according to Melo (2020), Abreu (1999), Rocha (1998), Aragão (2004), Mendes (2010), Lemaire (2010), Matos (2010), Santos (2010), Maxado (2012), Zumthor (2014) and others. Franklin Maxado's Vocabulary is a significant source of historical, political and sociocultural information about the backlands, based on regional language, which highlights a peculiar use of the lexicon. In this way, this research contributes to the understanding, dissemination and preservation of the customs and cultural values of the backlands, expressed through language.