From North to South, the dialectal areas of Brazil

playing “marbles”

Abstract

This article presents a study on the dialectal areas of Brazil, carried out using semantic-lexical data, which take the proposition of dialectal division of Brazil established by Antenor Nascentes (1953) by reference. In this way, there is an investigation of the answers of the informants of the Linguistic Atlas of Brazil Project - ALiB Project - to question 156 of the Semantic-Lexical Questionnaire - QSL - which seeks to ascertain the ways of naming "What are the little round glass things that boys like to play" (NATIONAL COMMITTEE OF THE ALiB PROJECT, 2001, p. 34). The methodology used consisted in carrying out the following steps: a) selection and reading of texts related to the theme, Nascentes (1953; 1955), Teles (2018), among others; b) formation of the corpus; c) analytical comparison of the items documented in the corpus, aiming at identifying similarities and differences, from the comparison established among the researches of Ribeiro (2012), Portilho (2013), Isquerdo; Romano (2014), Romano (2015), D'Anunciação (2016), Santos (2016), Alencar (2018) and, finally, Santos (2018), which focused on the description of responses to QSL 156 (gude); d) elaboration of final considerations about the Brazilian dialectal sandality, portrayed through the comparative study. It is worth mentioning that the corpus analysis made it possible to record and document the lexical diversity of the Portuguese spoken in several geographic regions of the country, besides bringing news about the Brazilian dialectal configuration, from the point of view of the lexical item under analysis.