Língua e linguagem: uma abordagem entre o normativo e a variação.

Abstract

The traditional teaching of Portuguese, long since, has considered the normative grammar as essential for us to use the language properly, which leads students to believe that there is a "right" way and other "wrong" way of speaking, as a consequence of this attitude, the social classes of stigmatized dialects are excluded from society because they use their mother tongue at odds with the grammatical rules preserved by the school, in addition, that traditionalism does not allow achieving some of the teaching goals, as to educate competent language users. In this context, the purpose is to encourage Portuguese-speaking teachers to respect the linguistic variation, addressing this phenomenon in the language in its many forms, not only concentrating on the formal structures of the language. Therefore, based on the aspects addressed about the conception of language and speech in the normative education, which considers language as a system of rules and confuses it with the traditional grammar, unlike Linguistics, which conceives language as a system of signs and sentences that speakers are capable of producing, as proposed by the assumptions of Sociolinguistics that presents the language from a variable form, which is influenced by the social, cultural and historical contexts. Our work occurred by literature research, using the precepts of Alckmin (2011), Bagno (1999, 2001), Bortoni-Ricardo (2004), Camacho (2011), Snow (2002,2011), Saussure (2012) among others. We believe that the Portuguese language teaching should review its methods, dealing with the variation and respecting the linguistic diversity of the students, explaining that speakers can use the language properly according to each interaction situation, without forgetting grammar that it is required in certain situations.