Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: DANIELA PAULA DE LIMA NUNES MALTA

SUBJECTIVE EVALUATIONS BY GUINEASE STUDENTS AT UNILAB-CE ABOUT PATTERNS OF VERBAL AGREEMENT

Subjective reaction; belief tests; attitude tests; agreement syntax; Guinean students

The issue of subjective evaluation of variants is theoretically based on the survey of beliefs and attitudes regarding some variable phenomenon specific to languages or dialectal varieties in terms of attribution of prestige and stigma values. In this context, a particularly variable phenomenon in the variety of Portuguese is the use of forms of reference to the interlocutor. Therefore, the main objective of this thesis is to apply tests to evaluate attitudes and beliefs to Guinean students at UNILAB-CE to assess whether there are social values of stigma and prestige related to verbal agreement patterns. This non-European variety was selected for analysis in view of the scarcity of linguistic work on it and the need to describe the Portuguese of Guinea Bissau for the process of socio-historical reconstruction of this language in contact situations, issues of attitudes, functional issues and formal. To this end, we will make use of the theoretical-methodological frameworks of variationist Sociolinguistics (WEINREICH; LABOV; HERZOG, [1968] 2006]; LABOV, [1972], 2008, 2003, 2001, 1994) and studies of linguistic attitudes (CARDOSO, [ 1989]2015; LABOV, 2010; BOTASSINI, 2009; LAMBERT & LAMBERT, 1972), we will also move towards the CV phenomenon, correlating it to groups of linguistic and extralinguistic factors. The partial results regarding the belief tests show that (i), on the one hand, the data obtained based on the dimension of power pointed to the existence of a prestige value attributed to European Portuguese, which originates, in general, due to the understanding of the language’s belonging to the colonizer; (ii) on the other hand, the data analyzed based on the grammatical dimension pointed to a greater acceptance of all groups of evaluators for the standard norm of the language.