A toponímia urbana de Pariconha - Alagoas: inventário e análise

Abstract

This research describes and analyzes the contemporary urban toponymy of the city of Pariconha, a municipality in the interior of Alagoas. By cataloging the names of places which identify the urban area of this city through bibliographical, documental and field research the names and denominative causes of official and parallel toponyms, we point out the semantic and socio-historical motivations related to the names of streets, squares and lanes. Official toponyms were collected from the official map of the city of Pariconha, while the names of unofficial places were collected from the population of Pariconha, through semi-structured interviews. Both were cataloged in lexicographical tables, for proper storage and arrangement of data, and classified based on the taxonomies proposed by Dick (1990a, 1990b). In all, 103 names were collected and analyzed - 85 are official names and 28 are parallel ones, in order to present a toponymic picture of the location with an inventory and systematic treatment. The data highlight a similarity between this corpus and the nomenclature found in any Brazilian city, whether coastal, rural or sertaneja (an inland area in the northeast of Brazil).