Linguistic-etnographic study in a community of Ukranians immigrants in the State of Paraná: from the past to the present
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5433/2237-4876.2009v12n1p163Keywords:
Languages in contact, Linguistic change in apparent time and real time, Social acculturation.Abstract
This article approaches the theoretical-methodological procedures, as well as the results of this research on the current stage of the spoken language by the Ukranians immigrants' descendants who live in a community located at the south of the State of Paraná. The theoretical discussion is based on the principles of Sociolinguistics, particularly the ones concerned with the phenomena of linguistic contact between the Portuguese language spoken by the inhabitants in this community and the Ukrainian variant of the first Slavic settlement brought at the end of the nineteenth century. Thus, we followed the apparent and the real time research method.