A polêmica gramatical entre Rui Barbosa e Ernesto Carneiro Ribeiro sobre a redação do Projeto do Código Civil

Abstract

This dissertation is situated in the research of Portuguese Language s History Description, and its theme is a study of the vices of language and its subject of the study it is a grammatical polemic between Rui Barbosa and Ernesto Carneiro Ribeiro. This study aims to contribute to the linguistic studies of a past that is present in the portuguese language. Particulary: 1.depicting the political, social and cultural moment of in the beginning XIX century and in the ending XX century; 2. to examine the vices of language; 3. to describe the position of the grammarians. This essay is justified by the fact of the debaters have adopted a conception of language as a naturalist principle. The methodological procedure used was the theoretical descriptive and deductive. The theoretical support was sought and the analyse of the texts was followed according the linear reading of Réplica and Tréplica works. This research is grounded on the theoritical presuppositions on the Linguistic Ideas History as regards its purposes, the results pointed out that the historical, social, political and cultural moment influenced the polemists on the privileged theme vices of language. It has concluded that the studious have adopted a purist attitude resulting in the conception of language therefore they defending it of the vices that corrupt the Portuguese language