Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: SUZIANE DE OLIVEIRA PORTO SILVA

Uma banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO de DOUTORADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : SUZIANE DE OLIVEIRA PORTO SILVA
DATE: 07/12/2023
TIME: 09:00
LOCAL: videoconferência
TITLE:

THE USE OF SECOND PERSON SINGULAR PRONOUNS IN PERSONAL LETTERS IN THE STATE OF ALAGOAS

KEY WORDS:

Personal pronouns; linguistic variation; sociolinguistics. 

PAGES: 90
BIG AREA: Lingüística, Letras e Artes
AREA: Lingüística
SUBÁREA: Sociolingüística e Dialetologia
SUMMARY:

This study aims to analyze the implementation and usage of second person singular personal pronouns tu/você in the subject position in the state of Alagoas, considering their role in identifying and demarcating linguistic and social differences within the community. The objective is to investigate how these pronouns were used, the conditioning factors affecting their realization, and how power and solidarity relationships influenced their usage. The theoretical framework encompasses Variationist Theory and Language Change (Labov, 2008), Historical Sociolinguistics (Romaine, 2009), and the Theory of Power and Solidarity (Brown & Gilman, 1960). The analysis focuses on personal letters from the 19th and 20th centuries, as this genre provides a rich source for studying second person pronouns, facilitating a better understanding of their insertion and usage in Alagoas. The corpus for this study was compiled through different stages, including a sample of personal letters collected from the Public Archive of Alagoas, the collection of IEB/USP, and donated personal letters from correspondents, spanning from 1911 to 2003 and involving both notable and non-notable individuals. The study is currently in progress, undergoing data treatment and analysis. However, based on our hypotheses, we expect to confirm the following conclusions: i) there is variation between second person singular pronouns in the analyzed sample, with alternation between você and tu; ii) extralinguistic factors such as the writing period of the letter, subgenre of personal letter, and the gender of correspondents condition linguistic choice; iii) linguistic factors such as subject filling, verbal agreement, and linguistic parallelism condition linguistic choice; iv) the linguistic choice made by correspondents is influenced by power and solidarity relationships.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Interno(a) - ***.950.314-** - ADEILSON PINHEIRO SEDRINS - UFRPE
Interno(a) - 338331 - ALDIR SANTOS DE PAULA
Externo(a) à Instituição - CLAUDIA ROBERTA TAVARES SILVA - UFRPE
Interno(a) - 3145736 - DEBORA RAQUEL HETTWER MASSMANN
Presidente - 2132809 - ELYNE GISELLE DE SANTANA LIMA AGUIAR VITORIO
Externo(a) à Instituição - RENATA LÍVIA DE ARAÚJO SANTOS - UFRPE