Denominações sobre o campo semântico do convívio e comportamento social utilizadas por falantes de Países Africanos de Língua Oficial Portuguesa

Resumo

This paper deals with the lexical variation on the denominations used by speakers of African countries where Portuguese is the official language (PALOPs), as answers from the semantic-lexical questionnaire of Brazil Linguistic Atlas, analyzing lexical varieties used by those Portuguese speakers to characterize concepts, since, by using a lexical expression to name something, are styling concepts according to their worldviews. This enquiry is part of a larger Project - of the Linguistic Variation, and Speech Discourse Processing: analysis and applications group (PROFALA).