Variação na expressão da 1ª pessoa do plural : indeterminação do sujeito e polidez

• Ano de defesa: 2016
• Autor(a) principal: Mendonça, Josilene de Jesus
• Orientador(a): Freitag, Raquel Meister Ko.
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal de Sergipe
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Pós-Graduação em Letras
• País: Brasil
• Palavras-chave em Português: Linguística; Sociolinguística; Língua portuguesa; Língua portuguesa (variação); Língua portuguesa (pronomes); Indeterminação; Pronomes pessoais; Polidez; Variação
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Indeterminacy; Politeness; Variation
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: LINGUISTICA, LETRAS E ARTES::LETRAS
• Link de acesso: https://ri.ufs.br/handle/riufs/5694

The indeterminacy of the subject is a phenomenon linked to notions of person, generalisation and specificity of the reference. In addition to such syntactic-semantic aspects also may be related with the pragmatic notion of politeness, because the speaker can use the strategies of indeterminacy of the subject of the first person plural: as a way of demonstrating the proximity/distance from the information given, including generic reference groups of greater or lesser scope, as negotiations necessary for the balance of communication while preserving the faces of the interlocutors. To investigate the correlation between indetermination of the subject, politeness and the variation in the first person singular, we use the sample speech Data of students of Atheneu Sergipense, which takes as its starting point the concept of community of practice, whereby a group of people share a common social enterprise; considering two pickup lines: the speech community (homogenized stratification) and of community of practice (socio-personal relations). Occurrences of the first person plural: with generic reference have been encoded according to linguistic, social and pragmatic variables, in order to establish correlations between linguistic forms and their social values and pragmatists within the community studied. After encoding, the data were subjected to statistical treatment of GoldVarb X program, in order to identify the variables that influence on the variation in the expression of the first person singular with generic reference. Control of variables specifier deictic characteristics, definiteness and referential group give evidence that the way the us presents greater frequency of use in contexts [+ defined], with probability of 0.61; in contexts with deictic specifiers (personal deictics - 0.71, spatial – 0.64 and temporal - 054), as well as in less comprehensive reference contexts, with a greater degree of inclusion of the speaker (students - 88.2%; Family - 86.7%; 81.8%; class students of Atheneu (78.1%). These results suggest that the use of pronominal form us as a resource of indeterminacy of the subject occurs in contexts with a lesser degree of generalization, reference denoting greater inclusion of the speaker in the generic reference group. In relation to social variables, sex/gender female factors, as well as the type of sociolinguistic interview collection favored the use of the pronoun us. The results on the basis of the pragmatic variables suggest that the us has increased frequency of use in interactions with distant degree of familiarity between the interlocutors, in situations where the speaker is without the domain of the topic and in international contexts with a greater degree of imposition of the communicative act, confirming our general hypothesis concerning the probability of use of us in contexts more polished. By examining structural, social and pragmatic factors, whereas two methodological models, our research shows significant by itself to the study of the forms of the first person plural: with generic reference, since the inclusion of the speaker in generic referent acts as politeness strategy, in which the speaker approaches or if distance from the propositional content, as negotiations necessary for the balance of communication preserving the faces of the interlocutors.