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No. of bitstreams: 1 ElisabethSilvaDeVieiraMoura_TESE.pdf: 1325350 bytes, checksum: bd727014c89cffbd412eb8424e8357c5 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-12-07 / Com base em estudos sociolingu?sticos sobre o problema emp?rico da avalia??o e com o intuito de contribuir com as pesquisas sobre o valor social dos elementos vari?veis, esta tese visa a verificar a atitude lingu?stica de estudantes de Letras da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte em rela??o ? redu??o do ditongo [ja] ?tono final de palavra parox?tona. Nosso corpus ? composto de testes aplicados aos estudantes calouros e concluintes, observando-se tr?s componentes da atitude ? cognitivo, afetivo e comportamental ? em rela??o ? redu??o citada, como em pacien?a/poli?a, e em rela??o ? pessoa que usa essa variante. Sendo assim, esta pesquisa se justifica na medida em que se prop?e a mostrar a import?ncia da elabora??o e valida??o de testes de atitude para a observa??o do valor social das variantes lingu?sticas. Diante disso, as quest?es fundadoras de nossa pesquisa s?o as seguintes: (i) que testes podem ser aplicados para verificar as atitudes lingu?sticas?; (ii) quais s?o as atitudes lingu?sticas de universit?rios do curso de Letras, nos per?odos iniciais e finais do curso, em rela??o ? redu??o do ditongo [ja] ?tono final de palavra parox?tona? Diante dessas quest?es, nossos objetivos s?o os seguintes: (i) desenvolver e validar testes para avaliar atitudes lingu?sticas em fun??o de seus tr?s componentes ? cognitivo, afetivo e comportamental; (ii) descrever e analisar atitudes de universit?rios do curso de Letras, nos per?odos iniciais e finais do curso, em rela??o ? redu??o do ditongo [ja] ?tono final de palavra parox?tona. Como expectativa aos objetivos norteadores da pesquisa, apresentamos as seguintes hip?teses: (i) a escala de Likert, a escala de diferenciador sem?ntico e a escala de dist?ncia social devem mostrar-se adequadas para avaliar as atitudes; (ii) alunos concluintes, por j? terem uma forma??o te?rica sobre os fen?menos de varia??o e mudan?a lingu?stica, apresentariam uma postura diferente no que respeita ao fen?meno de mudan?a e varia??o. As escalas mostraram-se adequadas para a verifica??o das atitudes, por?m os alunos concluintes n?o apresentaram atitudes melhores que os calouros. Pesquisas sobre atitudes lingu?sticas s?o significativas para discuss?es sobre preconceito e prest?gio lingu?sticos e para auxiliar na compreens?o de como se d?o as mudan?as na l?ngua. A elabora??o de testes significativos pode contribuir para um melhor esclarecimento das atitudes dos falantes e de sua influ?ncia na varia??o/mudan?a lingu?stica, e, ao permitir a observa??o do valor social das variantes lingu?sticas, os testes de atitude podem subsidiar an?lises feitas por quem pesquisa o mesmo fen?meno vari?vel, mas n?o faz testes de atitude. Al?m disso, trazer ? tona a quest?o da atitude lingu?stica nos cursos de Letras tem sido uma discuss?o pertinente para possibilitar aos futuros professores a reflex?o sobre o tema e a transposi??o para a sala de aula desses conhecimentos que s?o importantes para a forma??o integral do educando. / Based on sociolinguistic studies about empirical problems of evaluation, and attempting to contribute with variable elements? social value, this thesis aims to verify the linguistic attitude of students of Portuguese Language and Literature Course from a public university in Natal, Rio Grande do Norte. Our corpus data is composed by applied tests for Portuguese Language and Literature students - freshmen and seniors -, by observing attitude?s three components - cognitive, affective and behavioral ? relating to diphthong?s [ja] reduction in paroxytone unstressed words, as in pacien?a/poli?a, according to who is using this variant. Based on our analysis, we support that freshmen and seniors judgments are different from the studied variant. Therefore, this research is justified when it proposes to show how it is important elaborating and validating these attitude tests by the observation of linguistic variant?s social value. Consequently, our research?s founding questions are the following: (i) which tests can be applied to verify linguistic attitudes? (ii) what are freshmen and seniors undergraduate students of Portuguese Language and Literature Course linguistic attitudes concerning stigmatized variable phonetic phenomena? While considering these issues, our goals are as follows: (i) developing and validating tests to assess linguistic attitudes according to their three components - cognitive, affective and behavioral; (ii) describing and analyzing undergraduate students attitudes in their first and last semester regarding stigmatized variable phonetic phenomena; (iii) defining and identifying the three components of judge listening attitudes; and, (iv) verifying the influence of linguistic studies on these students? change of attitudes. As an expectation for the guiding objectives of this research, we present the following hypotheses: (i) because of previous theoretical backgrounds about variation and linguistic change phenomena, senior students present a different standpoint regarding change and variation phenomenon. The scales were adequate for the verification of the attitudes, but the seniors students did not present better attitudes than the freshmen. Researches on linguistic attitudes are significant for linguistic prejudice and prestige discussions, and to assist in understanding how language changes occur. The elaboration of significant tests will contribute to a better clarification of the speakers? attitudes and their influence on linguistic variation / change, and by allowing the social value of language variants to be observed, attitude tests can support analyzes made by those who research the same variable phenomenon, but do not perform attitude tests. Additionally, bringing up the question of linguistic attitude in Literature courses has been a relevant discussion to enable future teachers to reflect about the subject and how these knowledges are important for classroom?s transposition in student?s complete formation.