Lexicon, Culture and Teaching: the intangible heritage at Museu da Gente Sergipana

Abstract

The museum is a locus of (re)constructed and constantly (re)constructed meanings. The collection contained therein contains much more than objects: it provides, linguistically, nouns, adjectives, articles, pronouns, verbs and other grammatical classes that name facts and social realities of the material and immaterial testimonies of man and his surroundings. Furthermore, it is important to emphasize that, according to Matoré (1973), words do not express things themselves, but the consciousness that men have of them. The Museu da Gente Sergipana (MGSE), for its rooms, corridors and atrium, recall the Sergipean speaking, as a partial representation of the intangible customs and traditions of Sergipe (MELLO, 2021). Therefore, assuming that the construction and understanding of the meanings of the Sergipean vernacular undeniably brings socio-historical issues that mark the cultural and social identity of its use (MARENGO; MAGALHÃES, 2020), this work aims to present possibilities of didactic exploration of one lexical item (jacó bread) - taken as Sergipe's linguistic heritage -, which is placed as an example of interdisciplinary articulation between history and Portuguese language classes.