Estudo sociolinguístico do /r/ retroflexo: uma pegada decolonial sobre a realização da variante entre sujeitos do município de Redenção -Pará
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2020-03-09
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Universidade Federal de Goiás
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The history of the southern region of Pará is marked by the colonization of the Amazon border,
with several conflicts involving land, people, culture, language. Different population groups
characterize this space, historically connected to the migratory process that took place in this
region. Accepting the idea of recognizing the linguistic and cultural diversity generated by this
interaction, the present work aims to conduct a sociolinguistic study on the occurrence of the
retroflex variant [ɻ] in the city of Redenção, southern region of Pará. Historically, the studies
involving the retroflex variant [ɻ] are linked to the proposal of understanding the “caipira” dialect
of the state of São Paulo (AMARAL, 1920), expanding to the southeastern, southern and central-
western regions of Brazil, following the route of the “bandeirantes paulistas” throughout the
country. Its realization is considered typical of rural speech, such as the “caipira paulista” or the
“roceiro goiano” (REZENDE, 2005; 2008). Despite this, studies indicate the occurrence of this
variant in northern Brazil (BRANDÃO, 2007), a phenomenon little approached in existing
sociolinguistic research. This work is consistent with the relation of the occurrence of the retroflex
variant [ɻ] linked to the “bandeirante” expansion, which, in the context of southern Pará, is marked
by the arrival of the "new bandeirantes" (from São Paulo, Goiás, Minas Gerais) in this region in the
1960s. This historical fact is highlighted as the colonizing process of this space, which presents as
a result the domination of space and its resources and the subordination of black and indigenous
bodies of the Amazon by the white body of the Center-South. The methodological proposal used is
based on hegemonically constituted theories, being a qualitative field research based on Labov's
Sociolinguistics (2008) and on the construction of Social Networks of Milroy and Llamas (2013).
Recorded conversations were held with 12 citizens born in the city of Redenção, (henceforth co-
participants), whose accounts were transcribed, becoming the empirical materiality of the research.
After the quantitative treatment of the materials, the results indicate that of the 12 participants in
the study, 3 carried out the retroflex variant [ɻ] in their speech; the glottal fricative [h] and phonetic
zero [ᴓ] compete in the final syllable context of <R>, predominantly among the participants of the
urban nucleus of the city of Redenção, and among some participants, the retroflex variant also
becomes a competitor for the realization of <R> in the same context. It is considered that, for the
co-participants, the retroflex variant is evaluated as a sociolinguistic stereotype (LABOV, 2008)
related to the rural context within the city. However, its implementation is also strongly associated
with the agricultural context present in the region, with the central southern white body taken as an
index of development in rural space, adding a sociolinguistic prestige on the social evaluation of
this variant in the urban context of the city of Redenção.
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BAZZO, Manoella Gonçalves. Estudo sociolinguístico do /r/ retroflexo: uma pegada decolonial sobre a realização da variante entre sujeitos do município de Redenção -Pará. 2020. 398 f. Dissertação (Mestrado em Letras e Linguística) - Universidade Federal de Goiás, Goiânia, 2020.