O léxico de Graciliano Ramos. Contribuições para um vocabulário do regionalismo brasileiro.

Starting from some considerations regarding the process of compiling a bilingual literary vocabulary, this paper will discuss examples of culturally marked lexicon employed by Graciliano Ramos in a corpus of selected novels and their respective translations into Italian. The aim is to demonstrate how the multifaceted cultural and social reality of reference of the analyzed works emerges through the writer’s lexical choices. At the same time, the paper also wants to illustrate that the study of regionalism and other cultural markers constitutes a precious didactic material in university courses, not only in the area of Translation Studies but also from an interdisciplinary perspective, which considers linguistic and extralinguistic connections, to deepen the varied elements of the Northeastern culture in its globality.