Cartas de oferta de “quartel” em tupi de lideranças Potiguaras (1645)

Abstract

This work presents the preliminary results of a research whose corpus is constituted of six letters of Potiguara leaders in Tupi language. The letters were written in 1645 during the Luso-Dutch War. The research departs from the hypothesis that the pro-Portuguese Potiguara military leaders have assumed a formality, typical of the European war, which is the written offer of surrender with a promise of good treatment to the defeated, incorporating in these texts, discursive features of Tupi oratory. The paleographic transcription, the linguistic segmentation and the preliminary translation of the epistolary corpus into the Portuguese language are activities already carried out. In this version, the objectives are to inventory, within the Potiguara corpus, the lexicon of the semantic field of war and surrender, the pronominal forms and the terms of kinship. The hypothesis is that by using these lexical and grammatical resources in Tupi, it is possible to observe the hybrid character of these letters, as they approach the Tupi oratory of leadership. In this study, we exemplify these traits with excerpts from the letter of the Potiguara leader Filipe Camarão (1601-1648), as he is the least translated author among those who wrote letters of “quartel” offer.

This work presents the preliminary results of a research whose corpus is constituted of six letters of Potiguara leaders in Tupi language. The letters were written in 1645 during the Luso-Dutch War. The research departs from the hypothesis that the pro-Portuguese Potiguara military leaders have assumed a formality, typical of the European war, which is the written offer of surrender with a promise of good treatment to the defeated, incorporating in these texts, discursive features of Tupi oratory. The paleographic transcription, the linguistic segmentation and the preliminary translation of the epistolary corpus into the Portuguese language are activities already carried out. In this version, the objectives are to inventory, within the Potiguara corpus, the lexicon of the semantic field of war and surrender, the pronominal forms and the terms of kinship. The hypothesis is that by using these lexical and grammatical resources in Tupi, it is possible to observe the hybrid character of these letters, as they approach the Tupi oratory of leadership. In this study, we exemplify these traits with excerpts from the letter of the Potiguara leader Filipe Camarão (1601-1648), as he is the least translated author among those who wrote letters of “quartel” offer.