The linguistic context of the traditional communities of terreiro

Abstract

This paper addresses the linguistic context of traditional terreiro communities (CTTro), especially Candomblé, which establishes a relationship with the historical context and the internal rites of religion as a linguistic form of resistance through orality (Hampatê Bâ, 2010) given the process of colonization in Brazil that had the effect of annihilating African traditions in the diaspora (Vansina, 2010). The interaction through orality translates or models the type of behavior that the community establishes from the cultural values that were received. The studies of speech acts developed by Austin (1990) allowed the analysis of some terreiro practices as a performative action. Language as action is considered performative, whose effects mark lives and the social world and, often, their conscious intentions (and pretensions) (Rajagopalan, 1996). It is considered that the performative acts through the ritualistic processes of the CTTro, link us to an ethics, ancestry and African-black identity, insofar as it is in these spaces that the cultural cement that unites the diverse elements of a people through the feeling of historical continuity lived by the whole of its community (Munanga, 2020).