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STUDENT : THAYSE CAROLINA FERREIRA PARAISO
DATE: 29/06/2023
TIME: 09:00
LOCAL: Remotamente, via google meet
TITLE:

The linguistic use and attitudes towards nominal number agreement in the Guinean variety of Portuguese: repercussions of linguistic contact and the implications in the sociolinguistic identity

KEY WORDS:

Nominal agreement. Guinean Portuguese. Linguistic contact. Linguistic attitudes. Sociolinguistic identity.

PAGES: 183
BIG AREA: Lingüística, Letras e Artes
AREA: Lingüística
SUMMARY:

This study aims to investigate the use and linguistic attitudes about nominal number agreement in Guinea-Bissau Portuguese (GBP), focusing on the repercussions of linguistic contact between Portuguese and Guinean, as well as verifying the implications of this scenario on the sociolinguistic identity of Guinean citizens who speaks this variety of Portuguese. The hypothesis of this research is that, concerning the use of nominal number agreement, considering that it constitutes a variable rule in the written language of people with a low level of education (without complete University Education) - based on data from Paraiso (2019), due, among other factors, to the influence of Guinean morphosyntax in the GBP -, it is possible that the speech data indicate the maintenance of this typology of linguistic rule and that the perception data point to the speakers' awareness of this variation, being characterized by the demonstration of predominantly positive subjective evaluations regarding the use of nominal number agreement in GBP. We justify this investigation based on Labov ([1972] 2008: 150), who argues that, in addition to quantitative analyses, it is important for sociolinguistic studies to verify other forms of social behavior on a linguistic variant, including features that can be observed in types of explicit evaluative behavior, which we associate with linguistic attitudes. The specific objectives of this work seek to understand: 1) how does Guinean coexist with the GBP?; 2) what contrasts are possible between the inflectional morphology of number in Guinean and PGB found in the data under analysis; 3) what are the patterns of noun number agreement found in the spoken language of PGB; and 4) what comparisons are possible between production data (speech) and perception data (linguistic attitudes), bearing in mind the sociolinguistic identity of GBP speakers. To do so, we based the investigation on the theory of Variationist Sociolinguistics (LABOV [1972] 2008), since this theoretical contribution includes the social evaluation of speakers about linguistic uses, a domain that we analyze in the field of linguistic attitudes from the perspective of Social Psychology by Lambert; Lambert ([1966] 1981). Methodologically, we conducted interviews with 70 GBP-speaking Guinean collaborators - students at the University of International Integration of Afro-Brazilian Lusophony, located in Ceará (UNILAB-CE); as well as applying a sociolinguistic questionnaire, both based on Pissurno (2017); as also applying a linguistic perception test, based on Cardoso (2015). The results obtained indicate that: 1) based on the collected speech data, GBP is mostly used in the school environment, where its use is mandatory, while Guinean is widely used in the country, including at school, as a language that mediates the process of teaching-learning, even if this is not explicitly allowed; 2) the inflectional morphology of Guinean differs from that of GBP in the sense that, in the former, not all elements of the phrase need to receive the morphological plural mark, while in the latter, all the necessary elements must receive the plural morpheme; 3) the type of rule associated with nominal number agreement in the spoken language of GBP, based on the data from this study, is variable, with a percentage of 92% for the form with standard agreement and 8% for the non-standard form; 4) although the speech data pointed to an identity construction based predominantly on the participants' relationship with Guinean, their subjective evaluations regarding GBP were mostly positive, indicating that they are able to recognize that GBP is another variety of Portuguese and which has its own characteristics arising from the existing linguistic contact in the country.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Externo à Instituição - ADEILSON PINHEIRO SEDRINS
Externo à Instituição - ALEXANDRE TIMBANE - UNILAB
Presidente - ***.036.814-** - CLAUDIA ROBERTA TAVARES SILVA - UFRPE
Externa à Instituição - SILVANA SILVA DE FARIAS ARAÚJO - UEFS
Interna - ***.616.194-** - STELLA VIRGINIA TELLES DE ARAUJO PEREIRA LIMA - OUTRA