Mia Couto: “adding some color” to lusophone vocabulary
Keywords:
lexicon, discourse, Mia Couto.Abstract
In this essay we focus on aspects related to the creativity/ productivity of the Portuguese lexical system in Mia Couto’s works. Such aspects result from strategies used by the writer at the time of the discursive textualization. We concentrate on Lusophone cultural aspects present in excerpts from “O beijo da palavrinha and “Estórias abensonhadas”, relatively to the incorporation of new words, which lead us to confirm that with the “old” and the learned, the “new” is built. The perspective that guides our thinking comes from the understanding that we are part of an intricate and multi-faceted Lusophone space.
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