Análise do emprego do marcador conversacional né? na fala de Pelotas/RS

Abstract

This work aims to present, through the analysis of narrative interviews transcribed, the use of Discourse Marker né? in the speech of gauchos of Pelotas / RS. The above marker will be interpreted in their context and conditions of production and not in isolation, since appearing in interactional activities during the narrative interviews, as recognized a genre of sociolinguistic research. To do so, we will enforce two corpora, a textual and an oral. The first one was formed entirely of 25 theatrical pieces, dating from 1842 to 1981, that indicate the course of the MC né? from the oldest form till its present, in which situations it is used, and what extralinguistic characteristics of the characters that use it; the second, composed of interviews narratives who belong to the VarX data base from 36 respondents (men and women), half of them belonging to the upper middle class and the other half belonging to the lower class, all residents of Pelotas. The main variable considered in this study was social class and within this corpus were still considered the factors Education (schooling) and age of respondents. We understand the linguistic variable according to Labovian perspective as an internal variable element to the system and controlled by a single rule. On this way, studies involving grammaticalization factors are needed from the perspective of Martelotta (2003), because the MC object of analysis of this study suffered/ suffer changes and/or lexical, morphological, phonological and semantic variations; this aspect will be dealt from the panchronic point of view in order to realize that variations or not converted into changes. We analyzed, based on the theoretical concepts of Sociolinguistics Variationist and American functionalism, the aspects that are peculiar to each group and identifying characteristics of the speech speaking communities of this region (records) and show that their uses are very common in different situations, being present in the speech of men and women in different age groups, social classes and educational levels, should not, therefore, carry the stigma of addictions language assigned to specific social groups.