OVERLAPPING FACTORS IN THE ANALYSIS OF THE PRONOMINAL VARIATION NÓS/A GENTE

This article aimed to analyzed, from statistic results obtained after different rounds of the VARBRUL program, the overlapping factors in a joint analysis of the variables phonic projection, tonicity and verb tense in the study of the variation nós/a gente. The sample consisted of 24 interviews lasting 40-45 minutes each, made between 2007-2010 in Concordia – SC, and stratified according to gender, two age ranges (under 45 years and 50 years and over) and three levels of education (elementary school I, elementary school II and high school). By adopting the theoretical support of the Variation Linguistics we therefore sought to discuss methodological aspects related to overlapping factors of independent variables that are usually taken into account in the analysis of the pronominal variation nós/a gente in the subject position. Data were obtained through analysis of a corpus with 1553 occurrences of the surveyed pronouns: 770 of nós and 783 of a gente. Results showed that a joint analysis of the variables phonic projection, tonicity and verb tense significantly changes results, both with regard to the groups of selected factors and to the relative weight assigned to the analyzed variables. 

THE ASSUMPTION IN STATEMENTS QUESTIONING SPEECH OF CLASSROOM

This study aims to make a linguistic analysis, in a semantic-discursive perspective, of the assumptions that are encoded in the question-answer pair (P-R) in the classroom discourse in terms of Ducrot (1987), Levinson (1983), Moura (2006). For this, we made an analysis and a description of the interrogative utterrances, qualitatively, using data which are part of the corpus The Study of Discourse Interaction in classes of elementary school (Cf. Santos, 2002), consist of ten classes recorded, to identify the interrogative contexts in which the assumptions are encoded; and the relationship that these establish with the activities developed in the classroom. The results show that the assumptions encoded in the questions are related to the structuring of the discourse, with regard to return information given, to project  the topic that will be developed and establish contact with students through interactivity.

The alternation of pronoun forms te and lhe in personal letters of Ceará

This study aims to analyze the alternation of pronouns “te” and “lhe” for the 2nd PESS SING, in personal letters written in Portuguese in the State of Ceará, Brazil, during the twentieth century, in the light of the theoretical and methodological assumptions of Variationist Sociolinguistics (LABOV, 1972, 1994). The sample to be analyzed is composed of 186 personal letters. It seeks to investigate the actions of groups of linguistic factors tense and pronoun position in relation to the verb in the alternation of social forms. Then are presented the results of this alternation by senders of the letters, in order to refine the analysis and describe the distribution of these forms by author. Data were submitted to the computer program GoldVarb X (SANKOFF; TAGLIAMONTE; SMITH, 2005) and indicate that the alternation “te”/“lhe” presents percentages rather balanced when considering the analysis of all the letters. In the analysis by sender, the results demonstrate that there are authors who only used “te”, and authors only used “lhe”, and authors that make the alternation “te” / “lhe” in their writing.