Estudo toponímico dos bairros de Feira de Santana - BA

Abstract

The present dissertation aims to catalog and classify the toponyms that designate the neighborhoods of Feira de Santana-BA. It is known that it is through language that men give name to a certain place in order to dynamize the communication process. However, for deaf people, not all places have a specific designation in Libras. This naming process, when it exists, doesn’t occur randomly, it happens in a gestural-visual form. From the linguistic point of view, the naming system for sign languages is not sufficiently explored. In this way, it is presented here a study of the toponymic motivation for the names of the neighborhoods of Feira de Santana-BA from a bilingual perspective: Oral Languages and Libras. It is considered the physical spaces - neighborhoods - as topos (place) that are subjects of scientific analysis. The research data were collected from the Secretaria Municipal de Desenvolvimento Urbano de Feira de Santana (SEDUR) and the Associação de Surdos de Feira de Santana. It was delimited the administrative areas of the base district and the neighborhoods that are part of each area, totalizing 96 neighborhoods. For the proposed toponymic analysis, it was used the theoreticalmethodological discussion of Lexicology and Modern Lexicography (BIDERMAN, 1981; 1984; 1998; 2001), of toponymic studies (DAUZAT, 1926; DRUMOND, 1965; DICK, 1980, 1982, 1987, 1990, 1992; LIMA, 1997; FRANCISQUINI, 1998; ISQUERDO, 1996, 2009, 2010, 2012; SEABRA, 2004, 2006; BRANDÃO, 2015; SANTOS, 2016; SOUSA, 2018) and of the linguistic studies about the Língua Brasileira de Sinais (FELIPE, 1983; 1997; 2006; FERREIRA, 1995; QUADROS; KARNOPP, 2006; SOUZA JÚNIOR, 2012; STROBEL, 2008, 2009) among others. It is believed that the meaning recovery of these toponyms will contribute to the historical and sociocultural knowledge of the region, since that in this field we work with a lexicon that preserves old denominative stages.