A variação entre nós/a gente em textos de livros didáticos do ensino fundamental e médio de língua portuguesa na cidade de Triunfo-PE

Abstract

Positioning within a vision of the language in use, this work aims to make a comparative qualitative and quantitative analysis of the frequency in which the personal pronoun WE change for THE PEOPLE in textbooks of Portuguese language elementary school and high school. The study proceeds by the fact that we believe that the variation between the personal pronouns WE / PEOPLE, although it presents greater occurrences in the spoken language, is also presented in the written language, where by the way it is found in textbooks, for example is the object of study of this work. We present in this research theoretical considerations of the following authors: Rebouças e Costa (2014); Labov (2008); Weinreich, Herzog and Labov (1968); Vitório (2017) and Bagno (2007), which substantiate this work. We can define our approach as quantitative, although we open brief qualitative discussions from data collection. We have investigated our goal from 44 texts in the 3rd grade book and 12 texts in the 9th grade book. We emphasize that only the texts where the variation was found were worked on in depth. In the end, our results show that the textual gender factor that covers the language in use and the age group for which the books were intended are highly relevant to the results obtained in the research.