A variação semântico-lexical da folia na comunidade Cangas – TO

Abstract

The text discusses lexical studies and regional semantic-lexical variations in the quilombola region of Cangas-TO. The authors Câmara Cascudo and Noeci Carvalho Messias, who carried out research aimed at demonstrating the cultural and social value that the folia has, were used as theoretical support to substantiate the folia. From the revelry, we present the variations of words that are used in social life, with the main objective of identifying through orality the words that local residents and revelers do not use frequently, using questionnaires in order to understand the process of changes in regional lexicons. When analyzing the change in regional language in the midst of the struggle to keep the community's tradition alive, it is highlighted that the songs (that cross generations) are loaded with words that new generations are not using or are unaware of, since schooling and standardization of knowledge made the children adapt to the training they received, which leads to the disuse of regional lexicons by the new generation of the quilombo, which ends up not using it in the social environment so as not to suffer linguistic prejudice. One of the ways to maintain the use of regional words is through traditional musicality, since the revelry makes people end up using them in festive moments or when organizing festivities, showing the strong African cultural tradition in musicality, in the words of African origins and customs that are part of the history of this social group.