Aquá! Is it wrong to say like that?

Abstract

The Guaporé Valley/RO, Brazil-Bolivia border, presents itself in a cultural and linguistic hybridism constituted from lexical loans shared between subjects existing in the region, such as indigenous peoples, afro-indigenous peoples, quilombolas and Bolivians. The objective of this study is to analyze the expression of “aquá”, in the daily life of quilombola populations from Guaporé/RO in contact with other groups different from their own, a moment in which they experience new linguistic experiences. For this study, bibliographic and ethnographic studies were used with a qualitative approach and theoretical foundation intertwined between José Freire (2011), Marcos Bagno (1999), Gayatri Spivak (2010), Jorge Larrosa (2004), Jean Dubois (1989), Frantz Fanon (2008), among others. The relevance of the theme is justified for understanding the lexical characteristics identified in the speech of older quilombolas in the region in question, as it is believed that registering, in this perspective, can be an alternative for valuing words and languages that have been marginalized by the hegemonic discourse, in addition to contributing to a database of intangible heritage in which social groups with different languages and cultures are located.