Language, memory of colonization and narrativity in the 19th century

Abstract

This work analyzes the words discover, conquer, and barbarism, about the formulation of the first senses about the constitution of the Brazilian language and the process of scientific and territorial colonization by the European in Brazil. We cut the three definitions of different conditions of production: the first two in the Houaiss dictionary (2015) and the third in the nineteenth-century French painter and traveler diary Hércules Florence (2007), written in the nineteenth century, proposing a dialogue between the ways these words move and update the memory of European colonization in Brazil and its developments for the formation of the national language. Anchored to the assumptions of the History of Linguistic Ideas, in articulation with the Discourse Analysis, we sought to determine how the subject-colonizer relates to the Brazilian language, in its initial colonization practices, and the forms of the senses sedimented by the definitions of dictionaries.