Linguistic Attitudes of Informants From Cities in the Interior of Bahia State in Brazil Through Data Analysis of Alib

Abstract

In this article, we seek to describe the linguistic perceptions and attitudes of speakers in northeastern Brazil, using unpublished data collected by the Linguistic Atlas of Brazil. It refers specifically to the analysis of the records of 84 speakers distributed among 21 locations in the State of Bahia, through questions 4 and 5 of the metalinguistic questionnaire, which seek to assess the perception that speakers had of people's speech from other locations in the country. The sample consists of the answers of four speakers from each location, evenly distributed between the male and female and between two age groups, I (18 to 30 years old) and II (50 to 65 years old), and restricted to people who had finished elementary school or not. The study is based on in reflections on linguistic attitudes (Lambert; Lambert, 1972) and the precepts of variationist sociology (Labov, 2008; López Morales, 1993; Moreno Fernández, 2009). The results indicate a plurality of linguistic behaviors that result in either a positive or negative attitude towards other people’s or their own speech.