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Toponímia, história e memória: nomes das ruas do bairro Centro da cidade de Santa Maria/RS

2020; UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DO CEARÁ; Volume: 10; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.22168/2237-6321-31906

2237-6321

Tatiana Keller, Rosaura Maria Albuquerque Leão,

Literature, Language, and Rhetoric Studies

Toponymy, according to Dick (1990), is one of the most significant human activities, especially because it reflects man’s understanding of his reality. Therefore, through toponymic studies, it is possible to verify the way people use language to assign meaning to the places they live. In this paper, we aim to make a toponymic survey of the streets in downtown Santa Maria city and observe, based on Dick (1992), the motivation for naming of such places. The corpus consists of 57 street names and was selected based on Law No. 5608, of January 5, 2012 (SANTA MARIA, 2012), which governs the designation of public spaces in the city. In general, there is a predominance of anthropotoponyms and axiotoponyms, whose honored people were renowned ones from the city, which seems to indicates the intention to keep their memory alive.