Estratégias de relativização no português escrito em jornais digitais: uma perspectiva sociolinguística

Abstract

The developed work is a syntactic study in the sociolinguistic area. It focuses on Brazilian Portuguese variation mainly in the relativization strategies present in the writing of digital newspapers. This study aims to discover the proportion of the use of relative pronouns in prepositional contexts in the written language as well as which of the three strategies (standard, chopping and resumptive relatives) described in studies of spoken language is often in writing in journalistic context. This study is based in Tarallo (2007 [1985]), Bagno (2001, 2007), Alkimim (2012), Calvet (2002), and others that deal with the Brazilian Portuguese history and its rules referenced in Silva; Cyranka (2009), Ilari (2012) and Faraco (2008). The research assumed the hypothesis that in the texts that compose the corpus there would be a preference for the standard relative (it accepted by the traditional grammar) once that it deals itself of the writing language in one formal context, the newspaper. It also hypothesized that linguistic as syntactic function of the articulator and extralinguistic as the formality of the themes of the articles factors could be directly linked to the preference for the standard or non-standard relative. We analyzed 40 opinion articles from four digital newspapers to try the hypothesis. The newspapers were: A Tarde, Correio da Bahia, Folha de São Paulo, and Jornal do Brasil; therefore, two newspapers were from northeast and two were from the southeast region. Thus, we selected 10 texts from each newspaper. Five newspapers were written by female columnists and five by male columnists. This monograph has a literature review based on Santos (2015) and Silva (2018). The data analysis shows that what prevails is the standard relative. However, there are occurrences of the non-standard chopping relative in formal writing. The result shows that there was no occurrence of the chopping relative only in the Jornal do Brasil. The non-standard resumptive relative was not recorded in any of the texts.