Methodological options in the study of variable phenomena related to the first-person in the plural speech

Authors

  • Cássio Florêncio Rubio UNESP/São José do Rio Preto
  • Sebastião Carlos Leite Gonçalves UNESP/São José do Rio Preto

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22409/gragoata.v15i29.33080

Keywords:

verbal agreement, first person, nós (we), a gente (the people)

Abstract

This paper presents methodology for an integrated treatment of three variable phenomena in Brazilian portuguese: (i) encoding of first-person plural into the forms nós (we) and a gente (the people), (ii) verbal agreement with the pronoun nós and (iii) verbal agreement with the pronominal form a gente. Based on the theoretical framework provided by Labovian sociolinguistics (LABOV, 1966, 1972), the methodology is applied to a sample of Brazilian portuguese spoken in the countryside of São Paulo State (GONÇALVES, 2007). The results indicate that distinct factors predominate in the choice of the alternative forms of each phenomenon: in the verbal agreement with a gente, linguistic factors are the most prominent; in the verbal agreement with nós, social factors are the most salient; and in the use of nós/a gente both linguistic and social factors prevail.

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Author Biographies

Cássio Florêncio Rubio, UNESP/São José do Rio Preto

Mestre e Doutorando em Linguística (Área de Concentração: Sociolinguística) pela UNESP/S.J.Rio Preto. Tem artigos publicados em vários periódicos de circulação nacional, como Estudos Linguísticos, Revista de Letras e Delta, além de capítulo de livro. É membro do Projeto PHPP/PHPB.

Sebastião Carlos Leite Gonçalves, UNESP/São José do Rio Preto

Mestre e Doutor em Linguística (Área de Concentração: Sociolinguística) pelo IEL/UNICAMP. Bolsista do CNPq, é professor na graduação e pósgraduação da UNESP de São José do Rio Preto, ex-coordenador do Curso de Licenciatura em Letras, ex-chefe do Departamento de Estudos Linguísticos e Literários, ex-presidente do GEL-SP e Coordenador do Projeto ALIP (Amostra Linguística do Interior Paulista), financiado pela FAPESP. Tem artigos publicados em vários periódicos de circulação nacional, como ALFA, Estudos Linguísticos, Sínteses, Scripta, Veredas, Cadernos de Estudos Linguísticos, Delta, Gragoatá.

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Published

2010-12-30

How to Cite

Rubio, C. F., & Gonçalves, S. C. L. (2010). Methodological options in the study of variable phenomena related to the first-person in the plural speech. Gragoatá, 15(29). https://doi.org/10.22409/gragoata.v15i29.33080

Issue

Vol. 15 No. 29 (2010): Methodological approaches

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Language Articles

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