Línguas, sujeitos e sentidos: o jornal nas relações fronteiriças no final do século XIX, início do século XX

Abstract

This study focus on the borderline region that is constituted by the cities of Santana do Livramento and Rivera (Brazil-Uruguay), considering the period between the late years of the XIX century and the early years of the XX century. At that time, such communities were in urbanization and industrialization processes and trading relations between both populations were intense, which provided the exchange of subjects and languages. In order to approach subject-language relation in a bordering space, we explored the conception of border and its links to the notions of space and territory based on areas of Geographic Studies such as Geopolitics and Human Geography. Since we consider many ways of space appropriation, that are built in practices experienced by the populations which inhabit such bordering region, we came to a definition of bordering territory , featuring them as new territorialities that transform the borderline place into a socially appropriate and mutually shared space. Once we defined bordering territory , we historically characterize it, having into account the period of municipalization of the referred cities until the early years of the XX century. Afterwards, we review studies on Portuguese-Spanish linguistic contact in the bordering region Uruguay-Brazil by Lingüística Fronteriza researchers, following the path of such studies and pointing to new ways of treating such languages as linguistic study objects, especially to Enunciation Semantics in which this study is inserted. Considering the newspaper a space in which bordering relations materialize, we approached the relationship of subjects and languages, enunciated in such borderline, from advertisement textual fragments published in newspapers from Santana do Livramento. In our analysis, we followed different perspectives on the selected enunciate sequences and we aimed to interpret the senses constituted by the languages and for the borderline linguistic environment when languages are politically distributed by speakers that enunciate them in the bordering territory in such socio-historical conditions.