Phraseological units in stories by Ariano Suassuna
phraseologisms, stories, Ariano Suassuna, northeastern culture, popular language.
Phraseologisms, understood as fixed expressions in common use, play a fundamental role in popular communication and reflect the values, beliefs and traditions of a given social group. This dissertation's main objective is to build an example through the study of phraseological units present in Ariano Suassuna's stories available on YouTube. This research classifies the phraseological units found in the corpus, contributes to the studies of Phraseology, disseminating northeastern culture through the stories of Suassuna, who always defended cultural valorization, following Mejri's theoretical proposal. The theoretical discussion is based on the authors Silva and Isquerdo (2020), Paim (2018), Monteiro-Plantin (2017), Mejri (1997; 2012), Marcuschi (2007), Bakhtin (2003), Barbosa (2001), Biderman (1998) among others. The methodology adopted consists of reading and analyzing a selection of the author's stories, identifying and categorizing the phraseologisms used, in addition to exploring their meaning and function in the context of the narrative. The example consists of 44 phraseological units, initially, which were organized in alphabetical order. The ongoing study highlights Suassuna's linguistic richness, highlighting his contribution to Brazilian literature, while valuing orality and popular experience as central elements of his work. The dissertation also seeks the cultural contribution to the preservation and dissemination of northeastern culture in the national literary scene.