A variação fonológica no discurso oral de moradores da região de Sousa - PB.

Abstract

The phenomenon related to languages envolves values connected to culture, beliefs, social and linguistics facts. This group of elements form parts that constitute a society, community or group of people. Such elements are directly linked to sociolinguistics aspects. This research prioritizes the phonetic variation and specifically the metaplasm known as rhotacism, due to being constantly present in the oral speech, came to be regarded as stable variation, very common in the speeches of those that possess low education degree. By this bias, the goal of the survey is to analyze the oral speech of the residents of the Sousa-PB city, in order to realize the phonetic variation present there. the specific objectives: To understand the basic concepts of the sociolinguistic interactionism, to raise spontaneous oral discourses of residents of the Sousa-PB city; identify the known metaplasms as rhotacism presented in the selected speeches as corpus; and reflect on the influence of the schooling in the speech uttered by the collaborating subjects. For so much, the theory that bases this investigation is Variationist Sociolinguistic. The corpus and research field were constituted by three orals speeches of residents belonging the same community known as Assentamento Zequinha, in Sousa/PB area. The methodology of the research is ethnographic, with approach both quantitative and qualitative. The results obtained with analysis of the speeches evidenced that of the total of 138 metaplasms present in the discourses, 22 are rhotacisms. Of the three discourses analyzed in this research, the rhotacism metaplasm suggests is directly connected to the way people communicate in this community, becoming a constant habit in the speech of these inhabitants.