Os onomásticos em documentos da freguesia de São Cristóvão quando pertencente à província eclesiástica da Bahia

Abstract

Since early times, human being felt the need of naming things, people and places, in order to organize, control and recreate the world around him. For that to happen, he resorts to the lexicon, through which develops a linguistic system, culminating in the production of a tangle of words that are common to each language. Thus, this study has as its aim determine the influence of a dominant religious ideology in choosing anthroponyms in the parish of St. Christopher, the oldest in the state of Sergipe, in the period 1883-1910. In order to do that, we used the books of registries of baptism are in the Church of Our Lady of Victory. Our methodology is the description and analysis of a considerable amount of manuscripts, showing, in the anthroponyms in question, that the choice of the individual's name is associated with some religious nature of the event, as the day of a saint's birth or by in search of divine protection. The theoretical and methodological foundations that support this research relate, first, the documentary analysis, the philological bias of textual criticism, in concepts covered by Berwanger and Leal (2008) Cambraia (2005), Samara (2005), Acioli (1994), Blanco (1987), Spina (1970), seeking assistance in other sciences, such as paleography, to carry out the semidiplomatic edition, in order to reconstruct the manuscripts by survey and categorization of names, easy to read and the understanding of the content. On the other hand, research permeates the field of Onomasiology, clarifying the association that man makes between words and things, using for this purpose, the teachings of Bakhtin (2006), Carvalhinhos (2007; 2008), Fiorin (2007), Martins (1991), Dick (1997; 1998), Bourdieu (1989; 2004), Guérios (1981), which to help you understand how they processed the appointment in the parish of Saint Kitts between the colonial and imperial periods, taking into account the historical facts revealed in the analyzed corpus, demonstrating the ideology of the Catholic Church as a power structure that strongly influenced, dictating and controlling thoughts and actions of people in the captaincy of Sergipe Del Rey.