Fictional Onomastic

status quo in Brazil

Abstract

This article tries to describe the current context of the researches in Fictional Onomastics in Brazil, as well as to illustrate unexplored corpus that would be grateful to the contemporary research in the area. Considering the researches of the Lexicon, the Onomastic Literary, or Fictional Onomastic, in the Luso-Brazilian scientific domains, is still a rising discipline, whose theoretical presuppositions – transformed throughout its origin – need to be revisited, reestablished and constantly applied in corpus of languages. According to Altman (1981), Literary Onomastics would be a specificity of Critiscism concentrated on the levels of meaning of the name in Literature; more than forty years, Seide (2006), Eckert and Röhrig (2018) and Camargo (2018) have demonstrated in Brazilian soils that Literary Onomastics not only assists in Literary Analysis, but also provides a means of comparing the function and status of the onomastic sign in society and in the most diverse fictional languages, contributing to the perception of socio-onomastic, aesthetic-fictional and identity phenomena.