A Brazilian contribution to teaching Geolinguistics from a tool for generating and for visualizing linguistic maps

Abstract

This article aims to present a computational tool developed in order to facilitate the process of generating and visualizing linguistic maps, the [SGVCLin]. Thus, the tool has the potential to be a teaching resource for Dialectology, area of interest in Linguistics that seeks to describe linguistic variation, especially the spatial one. This area is rapidly developing in Brazil, by the geolinguistic method, documenting the phonetic, lexical, and morphosyntactic variation in geographic maps, named linguistic maps. Therefore, Information and Communication Technologies can help preparing these maps from the tool proposed that stores material collected empirically in a database that provides access by means of a variety of different reports and maps.