O papel dos operadores argumentativos na demarcação de crenças e atitudes em Foz do Iguaçu

Abstract

This research is based on Aguilera (2008) guidelines and, in part, on NURC research. In terms of language beliefs and attitudes, the focus is on surveys carried out in Foz do Iguaçu, collected via CAL Project, where we verified how the speakers evaluate those who speak different from them. During the analysis, we noticed recurrence to the use of argumentative operators, indicating evidence of language beliefs and attitudes. The argumentative maneuvers made by the informants to justify their choices or to present data considered relevant for the constitution of their answers were considered as explanation for uses not checked yet in the corpus. To verify this hypothesis, we selected statements with the operators "já", "até" and "então". For this, we chose to work with studies on the argumentative semantics, from authors like Ducrot (1981, 1987, 2009) and Koch (2002); and language beliefs and attitudes, with studies of López Morales (1993), Moreno Fernandez (1998) and Blanco Canales (2004). With these studies, we tried to work with elements that operate argumentatively and, at the same time, introduce the informants’ beliefs and attitudes. The objective of this analysis was to find a relationship between the use of operators and the ways to set beliefs by informants. Initially, we raised the hypothesis that some operators would be used to set one or another kind of belief and, during the research, the search for validation of this hypothesis enabled the identification of important data regarding the way informants use argumentative operators to express their opinions about the language and culture of others.