SILVA, Liliana Maria da.
Resumo:
The language for being social is multiple, diverse, heterogeneous and should not be
qualified as dead, so it must be reflected and studied. The objective of this research
is to analyze how the textbook of the 6th grade of Basic Education, Português
Linguagens, by the authors William Roberto Cereja and Thereza Cochar Magalhães,
deals with the theme of linguistic variation. In order to carry out the research, we
discuss relevant concepts regarding linguistic variation, we chose the Portuguese
Language Textbook as the corpus of research analysis, we describe and interpret the
treatment given by the Textbook to linguistic variation. This research is based on the
ideals of the variationist sociolinguistics of William Labov ([1972] 2008) and of other
researchers who corroborate with the theme, besides the Portuguese NCPs. In this
way, linguistic variations start from the interaction of subjects in society and have a
collective character, full of social and cultural meanings. In view of this, the research
is documentary, of a descriptive and quantitative nature. The research found that the
Textbook analyzed deals with the theme of linguistic variation in only one chapter
among the twelve that compose it, which corresponds to 8.3%. The analysis enabled
us to note that the standard norm prevails during the frequent practice of teaching. In
this sense, the learner is induced to have pleasure only by the use of rules and
possibly discarding words that do not fit this norm.