The placement of clitic pronouns in O Patrocínio: journal of the black press of Piracicaba / A colocação dos pronomes clíticos em O Patrocínio: periódico da imprensa negra de Piracicaba
AUTOR(ES)
Ana Regina Vaz Calindro
DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO
2009
RESUMO
This research is based on the investigation of clitic placement in Portuguese, since this a factor of great importance to identify grammatical differences between Brazilian Portuguese (BP) and European Portuguese (EP), acknowledged since the eighteenth century. The main aim is to verify whether there is any specific characteristic on the texts from the so called black press that distinguishes them from the major press from the period. And, then, confirm that the differences between the Brazilian and European variants exist not only superficially, but also in their inner grammar features. While EP has become a language that prefers enclitic placement, BP is the most proclitic of all romance languages. Hence, two newspapers have been analyzed: One of them, named O Patrocínio (1925-1930), represents the so black press, and the other one, called Gazeta de Piracicaba (1882-1937) is from the major press. Newspapers consist of different text genres, thus this data contains different and particular features among the same paper. In this context, the analysis of a black press newspaper is particularly interesting once the texts were mainly written by afro-descendents people, to afro-descendents. Therefore, the language that was actually used by the people at that time was expected to be found. However, the social and historical aspects of the period showed that, somehow, the main writers of these papers had access to the normative grammar of the language. So, as their purpose was to fit in the society of the period, they tried to maintain, in their texts, what was considered to be the correct grammar at the time. Hence, when the data from both papers was compared, it was verified that they have a very similar clitic placement. That is, both of them present the standard European placement along with the Brazilian placement with very similar percentages.
ASSUNTO(S)
história do português syntax sintaxe portuguese history imprensa negra black press clitic placement clíticos
