Crenças linguísticas de falantes do dialeto caipira: Em torno das dimensões prática e representacional da linguística popular

• Main Authors: Joyce Elaine de Almeida Baronas, Ligiane Aparecida Bonacin
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Programa de Pós-graduação em Linguística 2019-12-01
• Series: Fórum Linguístico
• Subjects: dialeto caipira; crenças linguísticas; língua e estigma
• Online Access: https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/forum/article/view/67511

This article aims to present some linguistic beliefs  from the “caipira” speakers’ dialect about their own speech. The analysis concerns  judgments about the discontinuous features characteristic of rural speech, which suffer social stigma and deserve more attention  for instance,   to search for the origin of the “caipira” dialect This search would significantly  contribute to the softening of the linguistic prejudice linked to  this dialect, since many of its features are revealing  of the influences of other languages in the process of Brazilian colonization. Consequently, from the theoretical assumptions about linguistic beliefs and attitudes, this type of linguistic practice is addressed by the informants participating in this study with the purpose of reflecting on such beliefs.