The Grammar Corpus in the Horizon of Retrospection of S. José de Anchieta, SJ (1534-1597)

Abstract

The present study consists of an analysis of the grammar corpus within the horizon of retrospection of S. José de Anchieta, SJ (1534-1597), based on the theoretical and methodological basis of Historiography of Linguistics, within the scope of Grammaticography, the History of Grammar. Bearing in mind that Anchieta lived in the heyday of Iberian Renaissance humanism, a time of globalization of Western linguistic education, by European navigations, I analyzed the climate of opinion and the possible influences that the Christian humanist received, to write the Art of grammar of the most important language. used on the coast of Brazil (1595), on the Tupinambás language. My historiographical description will take place chronologically, dividing Anchieta's biography into phases, according to the biography written by Hélio Viotti (1980), and investigating the possible sources and influences of Anchieta's grammatical study in his performance as a teacher, grammarian and school manager in 16th century Brazil. Throughout the article, I also describe the context of production of the literary works that integrate the anchietan corpus, in an interpretation of the Monumenta Anchietana.