Usar a língua e sua significação simbólica para apropriar-se do mundo tem sido uma constante desde os primórdios humanos. Analisar as origens dos nomes próprios não é diletantismo, mas sim uma forma séria de resgatar fatos sociais, culturais e religiosos, entre outros; fatos aparentemente perdidos, mas devidamente registrados nos fragmentos de significação intactos nos nomes. Este artigo se propõe a mostrar como isto é possível e quais as principais vertentes teóricas; a Onomástica, seja em sua vertente toponímica ou antroponímica, se vale da língua para detectar fatos e motivos superpostos durante os séculos, proporcionando um resgate de memória coletiva.

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The sacred and the profane are two interfaces of the reality in which speakers' need to adapt/relate to the community to which they belong is compulsory and permanent, achievable by means of actions and language. In this article, we aim to analyse, from the viewpoint of linguistics, the manifestation of the sacred and the profane on the level of fixed phrases with proper names, as it is known that people have always tried to find access to facets of sacredness to convert into phrases and collocations that confer new valences to communication/ speech. Phraseological units containing proper names have consistently reflected people's close relationship with divinity. In the type of phrases analysed, the action of the sacred and the profane is highlighted not only through Christian and secular onomastic landmarks but also through lexemes specific to religious language, expressions that penetrated the common vocabulary as a result of an ample and long process of democratization of knowledge, of intertwining of various discursive types: scientific, journalistic, religious, technological (digital) and literary. The value of fixed structures with proper names and religious/secular terms is not only offered by the significance of these types of lexemes, but also by the increased expressivity generated by the strong connection between the constituent elements.

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