LANGUAGE BELIEFS AND ATTITUDES OF THE PIRANHENSE SPEAKING COMMUNITY IN THE LIGHT OF VARIATIONIST SOCIOLINGUISTICS
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Sociolinguistics, Beliefs, AttitudesAbstract
This article aims to describe and analyze, under the vision of Variationist Sociolinguistics, the linguistic beliefs and attitudes of the speaking community of the urban area of the city of São José de Piranhas-PB, considering that such beliefs and attitudes reflect the metalinguistics and epilinguistics vision of speakers regarding perception, linguistic attitude, dialectal belief, and informants’ knowledge about the very varieties they speak and hear. Methodologically, we applied, through the direct approach, the attitudinal test, through a semi-structured questionnaire and recorded interview, with 12 informants from the urban area of the city that we mentioned above. The theoretical framework will be guided by: Bourdieu (1982), Calvet (2002), Campbell-Kibler (2006), Kaufmann (2011), Labov (2008), Tarallo (1990), among others. The results show that the variables age, time of exposure and education have a remarkable influence on the judgment of linguistic beliefs and attitudes, both in the personal perception of the informants regarding their own accent and in the perception of the interlocutors. Thus, such factors interfere decisively in the linguistic configuration of the piranhense speech community.
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