A gente e nós: uma análise sobre a variação linguística em redes sociais e o contínuo de urbanização

Abstract

This research analyzed the use of "we" and "we" based on the Stella Maris Bortoni- Ricardo continuums in the community of speaking the School Center of Teaching Tancredo de Almeida Neves (CETAN), with young people of high school under the optics of Sociolinguística, a study in social networks next to the urbanization continuum. The research was carried out in two stages: in the first moment the preference for the term "we" was verified, but in the second stage, after analyzing the data the innovative form "the people" was more used by the informants than the canonical form " we". This result was attributed to the urbanization continuum, one of Bortoni-Ricardo's continuums (2004), because the research environment has a large number of informants who live in the rural area or have direct contact with them through their social network. The theoretical basis for this research was the contribution of William Labov (1966), with studies on sociolinguistics, Fernando Tarallo (1985), when he brings a look at the speech community, Bortoni-Ricardo (2004) by presenting three imaginary lines the continuous ones, Mollica (2010) and Omena (1996), when discussing variation, linguistic variables, linguistic and social factors.