Glossário terminológico do boi-bumbá parintinense: interfaces entre a interação comunicativa e a cultura

Abstract

Boi-Bumbá is a cultural manifestation that carries expressive characteristics of the indigenous peoples, caboclos, northeastern, and/or quilombola peoples in the construction of the folkloric identity of the Amazonian universe. Considering the Amazonian scenario, this research highlights the Garantido and Caprichoso Boi-Bumbá groups due to the dimension of the lexicon of these folkloric festivities, more specifically, due to their expressive terminological value. Therefore, this work, developed within the Mestrado Acadêmico em Letras, of the Programa de Pós-Graduação em Letras (PGLetras), at the Universidade Federal do Maranhão (UFMA), has the main objective of elaborating a glossary of the Boi-Bumbá of Parintins, specifically, of the Garantido and Caprichoso groups, considering the perspective of the Communicative Theory of Terminology and Cultural Terminology. Furthermore, it has, as a theoretical framework, in the field of the Amazonian Boi-Bumbá festival, the studies of Cavalcanti (2022) on rivalry and affection in the Boi-Bumbá festivities of Parintins and those of Nogueira (2013) on the spectacularization of the Amazonian imaginary in the Boi-Bumbá of Parintins; in the field of terminological studies, the studies of Cabré (1995, 1999) on language in a specialized context of use from the perspective of the Communicative Theory of Terminology; those of Diki-kidiri (2011) on Cultural Terminology; those of Krieger and Finatto (2020, 2023) on denominative and conceptual variation and, finally, those of Barros (2004) on the production of specialized glossaries. Methodologically, the following were carried out: a) a bibliographic survey on the Parintins folk festival in Thesis and Dissertation Catalogs (CAPES) and in the Thesis and Dissertation Database of public universities in Amazonas and Maranhão; b) data collection: theses, dissertations, and scientific articles; c) a survey of songs released between 2022 and 2025. Initially, the aim was to explore the existing reference material, and then the selected corpus underwent a process that required converting unformatted texts for data processing using lexicographic and terminographic software called AntConc. As a result, sixty terms were cataloged, corresponding to thirteen semantic fields, distributed as follows: visual/scenographic elements, culture, character, identity, theatrical representation, dance, percussion/instruments, space, clothing, supporters, organization of the folkloric group, choreography, and music. This study is expected to contribute to a deeper understanding of variation in specialized language use contexts, the relationship between terminology and culture, and a wider dissemination and greater appreciation of Boi-Bumbá as a Parintins folk tradition.