Variação linguística no livro de 8º ano de língua inglesa da coleção Alive!: da variação fonético-fonológica à estilístico-pragmática

Abstract

The present work analyzes the English coursebook of the Alive! collection used in the eighth grade of a public school in the city of Bagé-RS. Our objective with this analysis is to verify what are the levels of linguistic variation present in the material, as well as the social factors that can help in the identification of the variation levels. A total of four levels of variation proposed by Bagno (2007) are identified: phonetic-phonological; syntactic; lexical and stylistic-pragmatic. In addition to these four levels, the material approaches spelling variation, also known as orthographic variation, even though it is not part of the levels proposed by the author. As for social factors, only three are identified: geographical origin; socioeconomic status and social networks. It is observed that, among the levels of variation, the phonetic-phonological variation was more prominent, present in 40% of the cases. As for the social factors, the prominence of the variety according to the geographic origin is present in 74% of the cases. Moreover, we verified that the morphological and semantic variation is not addressed, as well as the factors: degree of schooling; age; sex and the labor market. Thus, we find that although the material approaches different varieties, it is still needed to expand the range of knowledge of the students so that they do not simply assume that the language will vary only according to the place where it is spoken or yet, that the varieties are restricted to the accent of each region.