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 instructions for preparing food. They are historical sources that enable studies in various areas of knowledge, allowing both linguistic-textual and social analysis. In view of this, in this work we analyzed 63 culinary recipes produced in three centuries, the 19th, 20th and 21st, in different social contexts. Based on linguistic and extra-linguistic factors, as well as the socio-historical bias, our aim is to analyze the textual genre of culinary recipes, investigating its historicity and evolution over time, checking for traces of permanence and change, as well as investigating the relevance and influence of the various media through which culinary recipes circulate. Thus, the choice and selection of this corpus of research is justified by the need to expand and investigate the historicity of the culinary recipe textual genre, as well as its changes and transformations over the centuries. Few studies have investigated this textual genre over three centuries, and in addition to this diachronic analysis, the unpublished culinary manuscripts of Evelina Torres Soares Ribeiro are also included in this analysis, which makes this research unprecedented. In this way, we believe that a diachronic investigation of this textual genre helps us to understand the traces of permanence and change in texts written in the current era due to the technological development of digital media in different supports. 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 constitutive elements of the text. This model of study helps to recognize and distinguish the genre, and to identify the traces of change and permanence in the text and language throughout history. The theoretical perspectives based on the Discursive Tradition are: Kabatek (2006; 2012), Longhin (2014) and Andrade and Gomes (2018). With regard to linguistic variation, Calvet (2002), Faraco (2005) and Paim (2019). Marcuschi (2003, 2009) and Bezerra (2009) were used to investigate textual genres and media. The results of the analysis show that the medium is essential for the genre to circulate in society and must have some influence on the nature of the supported genre, since there are complex cases in which the medium determines the distinction that the genre receives.