Social and linguistic conditioning on information sequenciation in European and Brazilian oral Portuguese: changes in progress?

Authors

  • Maria Alice Tavares Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5433/2237-4876.2003v6n2p219

Keywords:

Functional control of sequence, Brazilian and European Portuguese.

Abstract

In this paper I approach the function I designated “retroactive-propelling sequenciation”, which is responsible for establishing a link between a past and a future statement. Through the combination of theoretical presuppositions from the Variationist Theory and Linguistic Functionalism, l analyze the speech sequence items ‘e’, ‘aí’, ‘dai’, ‘então’ and ‘portanto’ in Brazilian and European Portuguese as variants, trying to verify how they are affected by groups of linguistic and social factors. The results are obtained through quantitative analysis and allow me to assume the hypothesis that the functional control of sequence is following along different paths in Brazilian and European Portuguese.

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Author Biography

Maria Alice Tavares, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte

Possui graduação em Letras pela Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (1996), mestrado em Lingüística pela Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (1999), doutorado em Lingüística pela Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (2003), com bolsa sanduíche na Carnegie Mellon University (EUA), em 2001. Atualmente é professora adjunto III da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte.

 

Published

2003-12-15

How to Cite

TAVARES, Maria Alice. Social and linguistic conditioning on information sequenciation in European and Brazilian oral Portuguese: changes in progress?. Signum: Estudos da Linguagem, [S. l.], v. 6, n. 2, p. 219–252, 2003. DOI: 10.5433/2237-4876.2003v6n2p219. Disponível em: https://ojs.uel.br/revistas/uel/index.php/signum/article/view/4829. Acesso em: 23 dec. 2024.