A Expressão da 2ª Pessoa do Singular: Variação e Percepção numa Abordagem Experimental

Abstract

in this work, we present preliminary results of a research about tu and você variation in Brazilian Portuguese (PB) and the perception that native speak-ers residents of Rio de Janeiro have of these variants. We adopted an experimental approach applying an acceptability judgement to 15 participants. Our central hypothesis is that there are significant differences among the acceptance of using tu and você, even in Carioca speech, in which both forms are used, and that these differences are motivated by social and pragmatic factors. We adopted Labovian Sociolinguistics and Sociocultural Pragmatics as our theoretical apparatus. The results of this experiment evidenced a high level of acceptance of você in the dif-ferent types of interaction controlled in the experiment. This was not true for the variant tu that provoked in the participants a more insecure judgment

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