Regionalismos em comunidade gaúcha: o caso de Dourados (MS)

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2006

RESUMO

This study presents an analysis of the vocabulary used by 9 informers belonging to a group of people born and raised in the State Rio Grande do Sul, at present residing the town of Dourados, State of Mato Grosso do Sul, who are regulars at a Center of "Gaucho" Traditions - CTG. The study is based on the hypothesis that the influence of the lexical variation in the speech of the gauchos is most preserved by adults. Youngsters, due to school and community, have lost, as so to speak, the marks of the vocabulary of their origin, in spite of having received a considerable load of influence from other linguistic varieties, due to their livelihood away from the state of Rio Grande do Sul. The objective of the research was to verify and pinpointing the variants in the lexical and phonetic aspects of the language of that community. The methodology used for obtaining data was the elaboration of a lexical questionnaire that served guideline for the interviews that were recorded on cassette tapes and the data were transcribed and organized by lexical fields. For the accomplishment of this study, we considered linguistic and non linguistic variables, based on Theories of the linguistic Variation (Labov, 1996) for the analysis of the results. Later, a quantitative analysis of the variants was made, correlating them with their occurrence among the considered groups. The results obtained from the variation analysis of the community investigated revealed that among the non-linguistic variables, the context "age group" of the speakers - aged above 56 - were those who preserved their original vocabulary the most, while the younger speakers - aged from 18 to 35 - are more open to linguistic innovations.

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variation and regionalism sociolinguistica e dialetologia variação e regionalismo sociolingüistica sociolinguistics

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