Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: FERNANDO LAERTY FERREIRA DA SILVA

Uma banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO de MESTRADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
DISCENTE : FERNANDO LAERTY FERREIRA DA SILVA
DATA : 01/10/2018
HORA: 14:00
LOCAL: sala 313
TÍTULO:

The use of "mas" and "só que" adversative connectors in the speech of Natal (RN) in sociolinguistic interviews

PALAVRAS-CHAVES:

contrast, breach of expectation, adversative connectors, variants.

PÁGINAS: 63
GRANDE ÁREA: Linguística, Letras e Artes
ÁREA: Linguística
SUBÁREA: Sociolinguística e Dialetologia
RESUMO:

This dissertation analyses, through variational sociolinguistics' point of view (LABOV, 1994, 2001a, 2001b, 2008; TAGLIAMONTE, 2016, 2012), the phenomenon of discursive variation between adversative connectors MAS - prototypical adversative conjunction - and SÓ QUE - an innovative form -, through the use of sociolinguistic interviews' collected data that belong to the FALA-Natal Database, contributing to the description of the Portuguese spoken in Rio Grande do Norte. For the delimitation of the different functions of MAS and SÓ QUE, we based our work on Longhin's (2003) proposal, which is, in turn, based on Lakoff's (1971), Dascal and Katriel's (mimeo) and Ducrot (1977, 1981, 1983, 1987) studies. The author proposes that the contrast indication is divided into two types: contrast by opposition and by breach of expectation. The breach of expectation involves several subtypes: marking the difference, marking the unexpected/unwanted event, marking the refutation, marking the non-satisfaction of conditions and marking the counter-argumentation. The conjunctions MAS and SÓ QUE co-occur only in the contrast indication by breach of expectation, so we consider this function and its subtypes as our research's object. These conjunctions were analysed taking into account the informant's gender (female, male), age (preadolescents, adolescents and adults), education level (still in elementary school, complete elementary school, complete middle school and complete high school), the textual sequence (narrative, descriptive, argumentative and injunctive) and function (difference marker, unexpected/unwanted event marker, refutation marker, non-satisfaction marker, and counter-argument marker). The data were submitted to the statistical program GOLDVARB X (SANKOFF; TAGLIAMONTE; SMITH, 2005). The dissertation's preliminary results, extracted from 12 interviews with preadolescents, allowed us to obtain evidence that seems to confirm the hypothesis that MAS rectification and counter-argumentation are the most recurrent in the sample, since they are the oldest in the language. The data distribution regarding gender seems to have corroborated another hypothesis as well: the adversative connector SÓ QUE, which is more recent, is favoured amongst women, who are usually the leaders of changes, and the adversive connector MAS, which is older, is favoured amongst men, who tend to be more conservative than women (LABOV, 2001).

MEMBROS DA BANCA:
Externo ao Programa - 2312982 - ERIK FERNANDO MILETTA MARTINS
Presidente - 1451510 - MARIA ALICE TAVARES
Interno - 1675404 - PAULO HENRIQUE DUQUE