STUDY OF LINGUISTIC VARIATION IN THE CLASSROOM: AN EVALUATION THE LINGUISTIC ATTITUDES
OF STUDENTS IN RELATION TO TRAITS PORTUGUESE LANGUAGE GRADUATIONS
Portuguese Language. Variation. Attitudes. Educational Sociolinguistics. Gradual traces.
Linguistic variation is an inherent characteristic of all languages and manifests itself in the speech of all people, regardless of their level of education or social class, in all varieties, including the so-called prestige norms. And, according to research by Bortoni (2004), this variation occurs along a continuum, manifested in the gradual traits that according to Bagno (2007) appear in the Brazilian General Vernacular such as monotongação and assimilation. This social variation, according to Faraco (2015), is "the real issue to be faced. Therefore, this paper is aimed to verify the student's perception of the variation that occurs along the urbanization continuum and what attitudes they manifest towards the phenomenon. For this purpose were chosen the linguistic forms dinhêro, diêro- as representatives of monotongação and soltano, as representative of assimilation; since they are gradual features of the language, appearing this way in the stigmatized and prestigious varieties. This research uses the assumptions of Educational Sociolinguistics found in Bortoni Ricardo (2004, 2005), in Variationist Sociolinguistics, according to Labov (2008), Bagno (2004, 2007, 2019, 2020) and in the assumptions of the Pedagogy of Variation, according to Cyranka (2007), Faraco (2008), among others. The methodological procedures consist of the application of perception and attitude tests, in order to know the students' linguistic behavior.