Observação da linguagem fronteiriça / uruguaianês

Abstract

The purpose of the study is to analyze aspects of the local language of the city of Uruguaiana, located on the Western Frontier of the State of Rio Grande do Sul, Border between Brazil and Argentina, through the study of the work and the record collected by the author about the recurrent lexical units specifically at a regional level, since the conformation of the pampa originated from the mixture of blacks, indigenous peoples, Portuguese and Spaniards. The presentation of this study to the academic public introduces a further reflection on the peculiarity of border language in this gaucho border, at the same time as it discusses the records collected in this recent work. In this sense, the work of Louviral Araujo Gonçalves Chê de Deus: A Dictionary of Uruguaianês", published in 2021, allows us to reflect on the uniqueness of living and speaking on the border of Uruguaiana/Brazil with Paso de los Libres/Argentina, at the At the same time, we expand and resignify the concept of these speeches that circulate in border contexts.