Um olhar sociolinguístico sobre o falar de Cutipanã, município de Nhamundá (AM)

Abstract

The multifaceted Portuguese Language spoken in Brasil and its linguistic variety are the result of the continental dimensions of the Brazilian territory, allied to the mixed formation of its people. However, the idea of respect and acceptance related to Linguistic Variation, advocated by Labov, is not always true. All oral forms practiced by speakers of any region, social group, or small community are important to variational sociolinguistics, even if in the same language community not all the members speak exactly the same language, and homogeneity may be a fiction (LYONS, 2013, p. 19). This theoretical-methodological approach guides the studies of the variable linguistic phenomena practiced in a speech community called Cutipanã, located in the city of Nhamundá, Amazonas. This paper investigated the phonetic, phonological and lexical internal linguistic factors and the external or social extralinguistic factors, such as age, gender and educational level (MONTEIRO, 2000, p. 58). We also seek to identify whether these factors indicate a variation or the stability in the speech of this community, as well as the contexts that favor or inhibit the emergence of innovative forms (MOLLICA; BRAGA, 2003, p. 11). To collect the “corpus”of the resarch, interviews have been conducted — using audio recording of informants who have lived there since birth —, and also through two closed questionnaires: the Phonetic-Phonological Questionnaire (PPQ) and the Lexical Semantic Questionnaire (LSQ). Thus we studied the metaplasms, the ones which “indicate a form that is not normal but admissible, and those who employ or find it soon associate it with the normal form” (CÂMARA JR., 2011, p. 206). The Informants were divided into cells by the following variables: gender (men and women); age group (11 to 24, 25 to 49 and 50 to 91 years old); and educational level (1st to 7th grade of elementary school and 8th grade to complete high school), according to Maria Maura Cezario e Sebastião Votre (2012, p. 150). The result of the collected data analysis in this research will be presented at the end of this paper.