Relações de sexo/gênero e polidez linguística na fala de universitários de Lagarto/SE

• Autor(a) principal: Nascimento, Jaqueline dos Santos
• Data de Publicação: 2016
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFS
• Texto Completo: https://ri.ufs.br/handle/riufs/5725
• topic: Linguística; Pragmática; Gênero; Polidez linguística; Pragmatics; Linguistic politeness; Gender; LINGUISTICA, LETRAS E ARTES::LETRAS

Under the pragmatic studies, all face to face verbal interaction is intrinsically threatening because the speakers, when in contact with each other, cause an unbalance of the faces, so the use of strategies is needed to protect them. Thus, in a broad sense, all verbal activity is considered as a context of 'politeness' and, broadly speaking, this is understood as the use of strategies to prevent, mitigate or remedy any threats to the face of either speaker or interlocutor, in order to support the balance of interpersonal relationships. Alongside this perspective, the aim of this study is to investigate the status of linguistic politeness in speech of university students in Lagarto city, in sociolinguistic interviews, correlating them with the relations of symmetrical gender (man/man, woman/woman) and asymmetric (woman/man, man/woman). More specifically, it seeks to ascertain the 'gender and linguistic politeness' interface from the identification of strategies of 'politeness' used by university students in Lagarto city. It starts with the assumption that men and women have a different behavior regarding the use of politeness strategies and that the type of gender relations (symmetric and asymmetric) influences the use of those strategies for men and women. To realize such a proposal, this study is guided by the theoretical basis of Brown’s and Levisnson’s politeness model (2011 [1987]) and the reformulation of that model made by Kerbrat-Orecchioni (2006). It’s also guided by works such as Lakoff (1973), Fishman (1978), Zimmermann and West (1983), Tannen (1990), Eckert and McConnell-Ginette (1992) ones as well as some others, which discuss the relationship between gender and language and propose some possible approaches to understand that relationship. The corpus used in this study consists, in part, from the sample The Speech of University Students in Lagarto/SE, the community of practice University Students of Lagarto, the Federal University of Sergipe (UFS). From the analysis performed, it’s identified as politeness strategies: i) substitute procedures: indirect formulations of the speech act; modal, temporal and personal index; personal pronouns and rhetorical procedures: litotes and euphemism; ii) Additional procedures: minimizers and rhetorical. Overall, the results point to greater use of politeness strategies by men, especially when maintaining an asymmetrical relationship of sex/gender with the interlocutor (man-woman). On the other hand, women use more politeness strategies in symmetrical relations (woman-woman).