The variants of cambalhota and bolinha de gude used in the capital cities of the northeast region in the Houaiss and Aurélio electronic dictionaries: a metalexicographic analysis from ALiB data

Abstract

This work proposes to analyze the variants of cambalhota and bolinha de gude used in the capital cities of the Northeast region, as described in the ALiB, and the in the Houaiss and Aurélio electronic dictionaries. The general objective is to analyze, in the selected dictionaries, the treatment given to the mentioned regionalisms, as opposed to the ALiB data. In order to do so, a comparison among the information gathered in the three materials was established, especially with regard to geographic location, for the purpose of perceiving convergences and divergences. The data show little convergence between the information provided by the ALiB and the dictionaries. The information found in the dictionaries, for the most part of it, differs from the ones in ALiB. With this, it is possible to notice the need for an update in the lexicographic works concerning the approach used given to regionalisms, based on the dialectical researches.