LINGUISTIC VARIATION: A PERSPECTIVE OF EDUCATIONAL SOCIOLINGUISTICS

This study discusses the aspects related to linguistics variation from the perspective of Educational Sociolinguistics. It has as main purpose to comprehend the relation between elements resulting from Sociolinguistic and the education of Native Language, as well as to motivate a reflection about the process of teaching-learning to make a profound study of the discussion of questions related to linguistic variation in the scholar context, looking for an improvement of teaching methodology. This study makes use of a methodological approach of qualitative and bibliographic character, since it aims to develop theoretical knowledge about Educational Sociolinguistics articulating these aspects with practical elements of teaching languages. For so, it was tried to develop an education intervention proposal, in order to motivate the teachers to develop their educational practices, based on language use, communicative situations, for the purpose of improving the students communicative competence. It refers to a proposal that has not been applied yet and that should be adapted according to the extra linguistic context, in which learning community is inserted, becoming then a real intervention. For now the aim is to encourage thoughts about its viability. 

A INTERAÇÃO ENTREVISTADOR- INFORMANTE NUMA COMUNIDADE DE PESCADORES DE GUAÍRA, PR

Este artigo apresenta resultados parciais de um projeto de pesquisa intitulado “O cenário dos pescadores em Guaíra: história, memória e linguagem”.2 A partir de dados provenientes de entrevistas feitas por historiadores a pescadores de Guaíra- PR, em agosto de 2006, esse artigo traz reflexões sobre o fenômeno conhecido como o paradoxo do observador. Os dados analisados ao longo do artigo baseiam-se na fala de dois pescadores de faixa-etária, naturalidade e vivências distintas.Delineado o perfil sociológico da comunidade, tem início a análise propriamente dita, baseada na Estilística entendida em seu viés sociolingüístico, isto é, enquanto disciplina que se ocupa das variações provenientes de escolhas expressivas por parte do falante, escolha influenciada contexto, pelo assunto, pelos participantes e pelo contexto social da conversa. A análise estilística da fala dos entrevistados demonstra que, apesar de esses sujeitos utilizarem estratégias distintas de aproximação, há a busca de um só objetivo: atender às expectativas dos entrevistadores.

Linguistic behavior of Italian descendants in Cascavel/PR

The maintenance and preservation of a linguistic variety are linked to historical issues, which consequently outline the beliefs and attitudes of a community. Depending on the community in which the speaker is inserted, his way of communicating can be stigmatized or prestigious. Thus, in addition to historical factors, the cognoscenti, affective and emotional components, which are connected to the way of thinking, feeling and evaluate are crucial for maintenance or not of a linguistic variety. Therefore consider the immigration process of Italian and migration of the descendants of this ethnic group until reach Cascavel city is important to understand how historical factors influence the beliefs and attitudes of the Italian community from southern region in this city. In addition, Frosi, Faggion Dal and Horn (2010) binding on the language attitudes also to social factors age and gender. Thus, in order to demonstrate the behavior of some descendants of Italians in Cascavel city before the language of their ancestors, 18 informants were selected, Italian descendants of southern colonization and that live in this town for more than 30 years or that were born in the city, which were distributed in the following dimensions: through generational and sexual. From this, individual interviews were conducted through the application of a semi-guided questionnaire and the data allowed checking the linguistic and cultural behavior of the Italian descent community from southern region, that is, those who came from Rio Grande do Sul and/or Santa Catarina states. We found that bilingualism levels vary depending on social factors such as gender and age, as well as historical factors. Language is a form of expression of a culture, however, an ethnic community does not presuppose the existence of a speech community.

GEO-SOCIOLINGUISTIC INVESTIGATIONS: CONSIDERATIONS FOR A DESCRIPTION OF VARIATION PHENOMENA

This paper presents some discussions on the theoretical and methodological principles of the studies on language variation. The reflections take the socio-historical context as an element that affects the performance of speech time and space. Language, more specifically its realization in speech, is taken as belonging to the social order, i.e., as an element that relates to the way of life of individuals, groups and societies, which, through social networks and their entanglements, depict the dynamic and complex set of social relations. Registered in its most alive realization, speech is the axis to which converge multiple connections and different levels of society. This dynamic relationship between language and society, according to the studies of Sociolinguistics and Dialectology, provides the elements for examining the phenomena manifested in speech. The theoretical and methodological approach delineated in this paper does not exhaust the principles that underpin the studies on variation, but it congregates some reflections on the conditions in which the language description can provide elements for a review of the behavior of speakers given the history and culture of the community.

BILINGÜISMO E AS REDES DE COMUNICAÇÃO NA COMUNIDADE UCRANIANA DE CASCAVEL

O objetivo deste artigo é apresentar e analisar, com base em uma pesquisa sociolingüística, alguns dados sobre bilingüismo e redes de comunicação, ressaltando a importância da relação língua/religião para a manutenção de uma língua étnica de um grupo minoritário na cidade de Cascavel. Nesse caso, trata-se da comunidade ucraniana de Cascavel, a qual apresenta como marca, a religiosidade, representada pelo rito Bizantino da Igreja Greco-Católica Ucraniana. Objetivou-se analisar os fatoresembrenhantes do bilingüismo situacional e as condições, os motivos que tornam a preservação e a manutenção da língua e da cultura possíveis nesse grupo. O estudo evidenciou que a religião é forte aliada na manutenção e na preservação da língua, bem como no imaginário simbólico dessa etnia, por apresentar ritos que ainda são realizados na língua de origem. Desse modo, é por meio dela que a identidade étnica e cultural se mantém, ao mesmo tempo em que contribui para abrandar o estigma. Nesse sentido, as famílias e a igreja são preponderantes na manutenção da língua e da cultura ucraniana. Ainda é possível afirmar que a identidade, a cultura e a língua constituem a força motriz da comunidade.