Corpos e Sentidos em Disputa: Os Verbetes “Mulher” e “Homem” no Diccionario de la Lengua Española

Abstract

The way in which the feminine is enunciated rests on a memory of the condition of “being a woman”, in our society, as opposed to “being a man”. Therefore, the sayings about bodies permeate the various textualities surrounding us and signify in the form of paraphrases of the same repeatable. In this article, we aim to analyze the speeches reproduced in the entries “woman” and “man” in six different editions of the Diccionario de la Lengua Española (DLE) of the Real Academia Española. Based on the explicit corpus, we propose to observe the meanings that are repeated in the memory about the feminine and the masculine, as well as the way in which changes occur in the order of enunciation, based on the clippings produced on the definitions related to the two mottos selected for this study. Our Analysis is based on studies in the field of Materialist Discourse Analysis and the History of Linguistic Ideas. After organizing the corpus and through the analysis carried out, we were able to understand, in history and in a comparative way, how the analyzed entries reproduce places for female bodies that delimit them to the domestic space, contrary to male bodies, which can legitimately occupy the public space.

Keywords: History of Linguistic Ideas; Spanish Language Dictionary; Woman; Man.