Os nomes de unidades escolares de Água Branca – AL: toponímia, identidade e educação

Abstract

In this work, we investigated ten denominations of teaching institutions of Água Branca, microregion municipality of the highland of Alto Sertão Alagoano. The interest in researching the proposed theme arises from the curiosity of understanding how this type of denomination is established, identifying which factors - whether linguistic, social, cultural, religious, etc. - which influenced and motivated the choice of these names. The research is qualitative and quantitative, which takes into account the quantification and analysis of the cataloged dada by means of bibliographic research and research of field. The theoretical framework is established in toponymic studies, taking as references: Dick (1990b, 2004) and by other researches in this area, such as Dargel (2003), Zamariano (2012), Ramos (2008), Isquerdo (1997) and, Santos (2019). For data interpretation, we use data collection via semi-structured interview, with a script of questions with seven (07) questions. The results indicate that the names of schools honor male and female patrons, as well as homage to Catholic saints, due to cultural, social and religious factors of the Água Branca population. Thus, the corpus presents only two (2) taxonomies of an anthropocultural nature, namely: Anthropotoponymous and Hagiotoponymous. Our analysis also points out that the morphological structures of all ten (10) names of Água Branca schools are non-hybrid compounds as they are all orthonyms in the Portuguese language. Regarding denominational variants, the data indicates that some schools are identified by the hypocoristic of the toponym referent. Data from public and private municipal schools cataloged in lexicographic-toponymic forms will serve as an inventory for the academic public and, in particular, the scholar.