Para uma teoria de adivinha tradicional portuguesa

Abstract

Este artículo parte del presupuesto de que la aparente sencillez de la adivinanza popular portuguesa esconde una complejidad que interesa analizar y comprender. La falta de estudios portugueses consagrados a esta forma breve determina que la primera parte de este artículo se dedique a la descripción rigurosa de las fronteras del corpus que abarca la designación adivinanza. La segunda parte comenta estructuras, formas, lenguajes y funciones de ese mismo corpus. //// Abstract. The proposal of this paper is that under the apparent simplicity of the Portuguese popular riddles hides a complexity that should be analyzed and understood. Due to the lack of studies consecrated in Portugal to this brief form, the first part of the study provides a rigorous definition of the borders of the corpus covered by the term of adivinha. The second part is a discussion of its structures, its forms, its languages and its functions.