Contrastive analysis of the forms of address in the Brazilian and Portuguese theater of the 19th and 20th centuries

• Autor(a) principal: Machado, Ana Carolina Morito
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.21814/diacritica.578
• topic: Reference strategy of second person; Discursive Tradition; Variational Sociolinguistics; Courtesy; Estratégias de referência à segunda pessoa; Tradições Discursivas; Sociolinguística Variacionista; Cortesia

The main goal of this work is to analyze the behavior of address forms, which, in this research, are considered Discursive Traditions in Brazilian and European Portuguese of the nineteenth and twentieth century. To this purpose, it was investigated the distribution of those address forms, using the Variational Sociolinguistics, in twenty nine plays written in those centuries. To better understand the questions related to social relations and pragmatic motivations, it was also used the paper. The pronouns of power and solidarity, of Brown e Gilman (2003 [1960]). The results have shown a similarity between the systems of address forms in the Brazilian Portuguese and the European Portuguese in the third quarter of nineteenth century. However, they point out a continuous distancing between the two Portuguese forms in the last years of nineteenth century.