Lexical study of the bow and arrow game vocabulary and the Parkatêjê log race

Abstract

The work aims to provide subsidies for the documentation and analysis of the Parkatêjê language through the study of the lexicon of two traditional activities of the Parkatêjê people: the log race and the arrow game. For this, we set two lexical fields, log race and bow and arrow game, which were divided into five semantic fields: physical space; steps and processes; human elements; parts, components, specifications, measurements and instruments. Data collection was carried out in situ by applying linguistic questionnaires to informants of three age groups as the stratification made by Ferreira (2005). The development of this research was based on the theoretical postulations from the ethnolinguistics of Co?eriu (1990), Velarde (1991) and Rodrigues (2005), the Lexicology and lexicography (Biderman (2001) and Dubois et al. (1973); and the Lexical field theory from Co?eriu (1977), Abbade (2011) and Dubois et al. (1973). At the end of the study we achieve the structure and organization of the vocabulary that we propose to investigate, as well linguist peculiarities of the lexicon.