Os processos fonético-fonológicos de variação linguística através das histórias em quadrinhos

Abstract

Portuguese Language teaching is oriented by a methodology rooted in a traditional teaching method that comes from Saussure’s structuralist conceptions. From this perspective, language was seen as a homogenous system, timeless and static, which ended up helping to form a decontextualized and restrictive vision of it, a fact that produced a series of problems, one of which the linguistic prejudice. Opposing that, the Sociolinguistics appeared in the United States in the middle of the sixties. Many language scientists decided it was no longer possible to study language without taking into account the society in which it is spoken. Among them, William Labov is a prominent figure that, by Weinreich and Herzog’s side, laid the foundations of a linguistic variation and change theory, which marks the transition from a synchronic to a diachronic analysis of language. In that sense, our research has the goal to investigate the presence of linguistic variation processes through comic books produced by final-year middle school students. For that purpose, we created a didactic sequence based on the model presented by Dolz and Schneuwly (2004), which will be applied in a ninth grade class of a public school in the city of Toritama/PE. We hope that this work involving the variation and linguistic change study through a multimodal genre can help us develop the students’ reading and textual comprehension abilities, as well as the understanding that language is heterogenic, dynamic, and social. That aside, we should highlight some of the authors that substantiated this work. In regard to the theoretical assumptions referring to Sociolinguistics, variation, linguistic change, and linguistic prejudice, we resorted to Zilles (2015), Coelho (2021), and Bagno (2007); In relation to the approach of the textual genre studies and how it should be treated in class, we appropriated Marcuschi (2008), and Dolz and Schneuwly (2004); finally, concerning phonetics and phonology of the Brazilian Portuguese, we sipped of the theoretical assumptions presented by Roberto (2016), and Seara (2021).