| Summary: | Among the variable phenomena present in Brazilian Portuguese, there is one that is intriguing, because, although present in the orality urban of the educated norm, it still does not enjoy frank acceptance in the written modality, especially the one practiced in the school context: the variation we / a gente for the expression of the first person plural (P4). This article will present the description of the Portuguese pronominal framework in normative grammars and linguistic ones. Results of sociolinguistic research on the use of <people> will also be presented. It was found that normative grammars do not describe in the pronominal framework of Brazilian Portuguese the variable phenomenon for P4 expression, discrediting the usual speech of Brazilians. Descriptive grammars, on the other hand, give the innovative pronoun a discretious and informal status, restricting it to orality. Such grammars ignore sociolinguistic research that confirms the presence of "a gente" in urban cult talking in academic and standardizing environments.
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