Meaning effects of the “colonizer” and “colonizing woman” entries on the reports about the colonization of Sinop

Abstract

The present work had as objective to reflect on the senses put in circulation from the dictionary entries colonizer and colonizing woman, as well as, the ways in which these entries were / are taken in relation to the Sinopense historiography. In this sense, when articulating the History of Linguistic Ideas and Materialist Discourse Analysis, we reflect on linguistic instruments not only in their metalinguistic function, but also in relation to historicity. Thus, we found that the absence of marking of the feminine gender in the dictionaries and the non-use of the term colonizer to designate women-entrepreneurs attest to the asymmetries that have always permeated gender issues.