Consolidation of national grammar: an analysis of the pronoun frame in the eighteenth-century in Minas Gerais context

This article intends to revisit the issue of national genesis of grammar, from the analysis of a corpus of five unpublished documents that was writing in the region of Diamantina (MG) in the second half of the eighteenth century. The data analyzed here according to the assumptions sociolinguistic endorse the hypothesis that destabilization of pronominal framework and the consequent weakening of the agreement of the Portuguese system were already established in this region in the late eighteenth century. From this result, we speculate about the socio-historical role of the Minas Gerais region in implementing linguistic changes determinants for the establishment of a national grammar.

UNOBJECTIONABLE WOUNDS OF ILLUMINATED E.: ANALYSIS OF THE MONITORING BODY LANGUAGE IN “LUMPÉRICA”

The following work focuses on experimental writing of the Chilean Diamela Eltit, who published his first novel in 1983, during the military dictatorship of Pinochet. Through its "bold" text, Eltit achieved dictatorial circumvent censorship and began his career as a writer.