Língua e cultura: marcas línguo-culturais no léxico toponímico alagoano na produção do território de Igaci, Alagoas, Brasil

Abstract

The study of the naming of places and its product – the toponym – can reveal several aspects materialized in the language linked to the production of a territory. From this perspective, this research aimed to investigate the motivations that permeate the discursive relationships in choosing the names of villages in the territory of the municipality of Igaci/Alagoas. This is research of a theoretical nature, with a qualitative-quantitative approach, inserted in the emerging paradigm of postpositivist science and based on the basic theoretical-methodological principles of traditional Toponymy, especially Dick's categorization proposal (1990; 2006; 2007); Isquerdo (2012); Isquerdo & Dargel (2020.) in dialogue with the conceptions of territory (SANTOS, SILVEIRA, 2002; Santos, 2009), and culture (CHAUÍ, 1995; BOTTELHO, 2001; ROCHA, ALMEIDA, 2005.) The results showed that the aspects of the natural landscape of the geographic space of Igaci - vegetation and hydrography - were revealed as determining factors for the naming of the villages in the Igaciense territory, highlighting the relationship between society (human action) and nature (environmental action), understood as inseparable, translating cultural values that link individuals in this space in Alagoas, shaping the territory and building feelings of dominance, belonging, and manifestation of power.