LOUTISH BLACK PEOPLE IN THE SATIRE ASSIGNED TO GREGÓRIO DE MATOS E GUERRA

Abstract

This paper aims at demonstrating how the barbarolexis, whose doctrine can be traced back to Aristotle, is ingeniously employed in 17th century City of Bahia by the poet Gregório de Matos e Guerra to represent vulgar éthe whose character is evicend by their faulty speech. In the poem chosen by us as object of analysis the poet composes a mixture of African, Indian and Portuguese words, a monstrous lexis which present a very low perspicuitas or intelligibility, effect searched artistically, because it is the evidence of the barbarian character of the utterer. The amass of barbarian words contributes to the exponential power of the phone, main object of representation by the poet.