A concordância verbal em textos escritos por estudantes de Garanhuns - PE: uma análise sociolinguística

Abstract

This essay (work) presente an study about the variation of the verbak agrément of the language in its actual use of students from Garanhuns’ city – PE. To perform this research, we use as theoretcical-methodological basics the Variacionista Sociolinguistics that has its originator William Labov (2008), who considers the language in its social contexto, we have also used previously utlized surveys about the phenomenon studied as the one of Moura (2007), Rodrigues (1987), Vieira (1994) among others. Based of this assumphtion that the verbal agrément of Braszilian Portuguese is a variable rule, in which ther is a prestigie variant and a discredited variant in competition between ther we look for not only verify this variantion but also identify the linguistic and socao factors that are influencing and conditioning this variation in the formal writing. The use of the variants was analysed according to the linguistic and socials factors already postulated by others scholars. Among the linguistic factors we selected the ver type (state and action) and position of the verb in relation to the subject. The extralinguistic factors analysed were: the sex and the education level of the students. Based on the Labovain methodology, we collected data, set up the research corpus constituted by thirty texys produced by students from the 6th and 9th grades of elementary school and grade 12 of high school and alayzed them. The quantification of the data was done through the tabulation and allowed us reach to the following results: there is absence of the verbal agrément in the writing langauge of the informations in general of (14,15%) appointed mainly among the students of higher education (garde 12), as well as the male is the one that most presentes a non-standard form. We verify the two linguistic factors that also act as conditioners of variant. Therefore it was seen that the school influences the students to employ the langauge in its stantard norm, softerning the use of variations as non-standard.