Historicity and Variation: a study on the culinary manuscripts of Evelina Torres Soares Ribeiro and culinary recipes from the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries
Culinary Manuscripts, Discursive Tradition, Historicity, Diachrony.
Culinary manuscripts go beyond mere instructions on food preparation. They are historical sources that enable studies in various fields of knowledge, permitting both linguistic-textual and social analysis. Therefore, in this work, we analyze 63 culinary recipes produced across three centuries the 19th, 20th, and 21st in different social contexts. Based on linguistic and extralinguistic factors, as well as a sociohistorical perspective, we aim to analyze the culinary recipe textual genre, investigating its historicity and evolution over time, verifying traces of permanence and change, as well as investigating the relevance and influence of the various media through which culinary recipes circulate. Thus, the selection and selection of this research corpus are justified by the need for further research into the historicity of the culinary recipe genre, as well as its changes and transformations over the centuries. Few studies investigate this genre over three centuries. In addition to this diachronic analysis, this analysis also includes the unpublished culinary manuscripts of Evelina Torres Soares Ribeiro, making this research unique. Therefore, we believe that diachronic investigation of this textual genre helps us understand the traces of permanence and change in texts inscribed in the present era due to the technological development of digital media across different media. To this end, this work is based on the Discursive Tradition Model, developed by German pragmatic philology, which is characterized by the historicity and traditionality of the text's constituent elements. This model of study aids in recognizing and distinguishing the genre, and in identifying the traces of change and permanence of the text and language throughout history. The theoretical perspectives underlying the Discursive Tradition are: Kabatek (2006; 2012), Longhin (2014), and Andrade and Gomes (2018). Regarding linguistic variation, Faraco (2005) and Paim (2019) emphasize this. The results of the analyses indicate that, through a diachronic analysis, culinary recipes are a textual genre that favors change and variation, adapting to the current needs of the society in which they are inserted. We also analyze that the most notable and significant changes in the textual genre of culinary recipes occurred in the structural field.