A edição de glossários em obras literárias nas variantes brasileira e europeia da língua portuguesa

Abstract

Accompaniment glossaries of works originally written the Brazilian and Eurpean variants of Portuguese and commercialized in Portugal and Brazil, respectively, are analyzed. The books selected for analysis were O avesso da pele, by Jeferson Tenório (Brazilian Portuguese) and Pão de Açúcar, by Afonso Reis Cabral (European Portuguese). The criteria adopted by publishing houses to insert such a linguistic instrument in the books are investigated: who the professional responsible for elaborating it is, whether there is a need for dialoguing with the author during its elaboration, which kinds of knowledge are mobilized within its production and which supporting/checking materials the professional uses when elaborating it. For collecting data on the conception, editing and propagation of glossaries, interviews with the publishing houses responsible for publications and with the professional who elaborated the glossary of the work edited in Portugal were conducted. The findings pointed that glossaries aim at contextualizing reading in cases in which orality and regional variants strongly appear, besides explaining specific terms that are hardly understood by common readers outside the linguistic community that uses them.