The The imperative in variation in the writing of Minas Gerais: the role of the subject and the sections of the letters

• Autor(a) principal: Carvalho, Luiz Fernando de
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista da ABRALIN (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://revista.abralin.org/index.php/abralin/article/view/1740
• topic: Modo imperativo; Variação Linguística; Variação tu/você; Carta pessoal; Tradução discursiva; Imperative mood; Linguistic Variation; Variation tu/você; Personal letter; Discursive Tradition

The variable status of the 2nd person singular – Imperative Mood, a fruitful phenomenon in Brazilian Portuguese (PAREDES SILVA et al., 2000; SCHERRE, 2003; 2007; 2012; RUMEU, 2016; 2019; SILVA, 2017; CARVALHO, 2020) is the central theme of this paper. Thus, based on the examination of the letters from the nineteenth and twentieth century (1868-1993) autographed by educated writers from the state of Minas Gerais, we seek to ascertain the effect that the reference to the 2nd person subject (CARDOSO, 2012; DINIZ, 2018) and to the sections of the personal letter genre (SILVA, 2017) may have on the phenomenon. This analysis, guided by the theoretical and methodological assumptions of the Sociolinguistics (LABOV, 1972; ROMAINE, 1982; HERNÁNDEZ-CAMPOY; SCHILLING, 2012), proves this influence in view of the strength of the grammatical tradition (ROCHA LIMA, 2013 [1972]) on the scribes and the presence of Discursive Traditions (KABATEK, 2006) of the textual genre.