Forms of nominal address from reader’s letters in periodicals from Chapecó, Brazil

• Autor(a) principal: Snichelotto, Cláudia Andrea Rost
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Outros Autores: Strapazzon, Leila Teixeira da Rosa
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: letrônica
• Texto Completo: https://revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br/ojs/index.php/letronica/article/view/25070
• topic: Forms of nominal address; Reader’s letters; Linguistic variation and change; Politeness language.; Formas de Tratamento Nominal; Cartas de leitor; Variação e mudança linguística; Polidez linguística.; Formas de Tratamento Nominal; Cartas de leitor; Variação e mudança linguística; Polidez linguística.

This article presents the data collection of forms of nominal address (formas de tratamento nominal – FTNs) in reader’s letters published in the 1950s in  Chapecó, Brazil. Our objective is to describe and to analyze the FTNs in order to verify the values and the functions attributed by the senders of these letters. Based on the theoretical framework of Linguistic variation and change theory, and the Politeness theory, we analyzed eleven (11) random samples of reader’s letters from the newspapers A voz do Chapecó and four (4) from the O imparcial, from a number of fifteen (15) letters in total. One hundred and forty (140) occurrences of FTNs were identified, being twenty-eight (28) of non-codified FTNs and one hundred and two (122) of already classified FTNs. Within the amount of classified occurrences of FTNs we could realize a higher number of  locutive functions, while in the non-codified ones there was a predominance of predicative functions. The FTNs of pejorative nature presented the characteristics of offending the alocutors, and as a result, we could perceive an increase of the distance between the partners of the interaction. Furthermore, as a result of this distance, we could notice a low number of occurrences of cooperative principle functions in order to promote a positive representation of the reader’s letters investigated in the study, particularly if considered the conflicts of political nature Chapecó faced at that time.