An atlas (re) drawn by the appointment event: Mato Grosso and its municipalities of the construction of an ark

Abstract

This work aims to analyze, from enunciative studies, from the Mato Grosso’s county nomination, the semantic movement that builds meanings of the physical and political geography that today describes the ark of Mato Grosso State, representing its socio-historical stratum. We take concepts from Semantics of the Event (Guimarães, 2002), an enunciative theoretical methodological framework and the French Discourse Analysis as a space for reflection that allows us to observe, in a particular way, the continuous process that stratifies the region in what was projected while future latency of what would become a political-administrative ark (unit) in Brazilian territory. Our analyzes take into account the enunciative semantic functioning of county names that, from the first half of the 18th century, began to construct meanings that began to signify the physical-political geography that gave historical existence to the region and, consequently, to Mato Grosso State. In this sense, the enunciative analysis county names functioning allows us to directly look at the constitutive movement of the Mato Grosso atlas entangled by the weaving of events in the nominations of the counties in a continuous movement that designs and redesigns this immense moving ark that passes to signify the territory of Mato Grosso State which, by the notion of discursive memory, resonates with indigenous names as traits that marked a path of nomination. These theoretical positions allow us to take a map as text, that is, they lead us to read it as a statement, a place that produces meanings due to the way the socio-historical narratives that constitute it, meaning the semantization and discursivization process of the textuality proper to its existence as movement constituted in/by language.