Descrição
The most impressive trait of Vitorino Nemésio’s oral style is the unifying linguistic indicatorsexhibited in the direct speech of his characters. In this literary attempt to mark the speaker’s dialectalcodes of speech, Nemésio seeks to construct a personality that stands apart, linguistically, from others inthe text. In this essay, the literary representation of dialect in the discourse of one of the characters in MauTempo no Canal1 provides a background upon which the marked linguistic registers will be traced againstexisting linguistic data to form an expository analysis of the speech. The question is whether this oralfictional speech represents a truthful marker of Azorean linguistic identity.
