Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T15:07:07Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 WashintianePBS_DISSERT.pdf: 1298796 bytes, checksum: 3e1b887f7b78a37e9abdfb6a15f30847 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-08-02 / In this dissertation, based on two theoretical frameworks, American functionalism and variationist sociolinguistics, I take as subject the sequence connectors E and A?, which has the grammatical function of indicating retroactive-propeller sequenciation of information. I analyze the variable use of these connectors in texts written by students from two public schools in the city of Natal, RN, attending at the time of data collection (the year 2012), two distinct levels of basic education: the sixth and the ninth year. The students who contributed to this research wrote, as part of their activities in the classroom, texts of two narrative genres: narrative of personal experience (non-fictional) and short story (fictional). In addition, these students and their Portuguese teachers answered a test of linguistic attitude in which they gave their opinions regarding the appropriateness of the use of connectors E and A? in contexts of speech and writing marked by distinct degrees of formality. The results obtained by means of quantitative analysis showed different tendencies of linguistic, social and stylistic distribution of connectors E and A? in the narrative texts written by the students. I related these results to the action of two principles: the principle of persistence, linked to the process of change by grammaticalization, and the principle of stylistic markedness. Besides, I took into account the answers provided by students and teachers to the test of linguistic attitude for refine the interpretation of the results / Nesta disserta??o, apoiando-me em dois referenciais te?ricos, o do funcionalismo lingu?stico de vertente norte-americana e o da sociolingu?stica variacionista, tomo como objeto de estudo os conectores sequenciadores E e A?, que atuam na fun??o gramatical de indica??o de sequencia??o retroativo-propulsora de informa??es. Analiso o uso vari?vel desses conectores em textos escritos por alunos de duas escolas da rede p?blica da cidade de Natal-RN, que cursavam, ? ?poca da coleta de dados (o ano de 2012), duas s?ries distintas do ensino fundamental: o sexto e o nono ano. Os alunos que contribu?ram para a realiza??o desta pesquisa escreveram, como parte de suas atividades em sala de aula, textos de dois g?neros da esfera narrativa: narrativa de experi?ncia pessoal (de car?ter n?o ficcional) e conto (de car?ter ficcional). Al?m disso, esses alunos e seus professores de l?ngua portuguesa responderam a um teste de atitude lingu?stica em que opinaram sobre a adequa??o do uso dos conectores E e A? em contextos de fala e de escrita marcados por diferentes graus de formalidade. Os resultados, obtidos por meio de an?lise quantitativa, revelaram diferentes tend?ncias de distribui??o lingu?stica, social e estil?stica dos conectores E e A? nos textos narrativos escritos pelos alunos. Relacionei tais resultados ? a??o de dois princ?pios: o princ?pio da persist?ncia, vinculado ao processo de mudan?a por gramaticaliza??o, e o princ?pio da marca??o estil?stica. Al?m disso, levei em conta as respostas fornecidas por alunos e professores ao teste de atitude lingu?stica para refinar a interpreta??o dos resultados

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