Chapter 5. “ Vocês tenham cuidado, sois educadas para isso”
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Joana Aguiar
Abstract
The replacement of the pronoun vós ‘you’ by vocês ‘you’ is a widely spread change in spoken Portuguese. Nonetheless, the pronoun vós can be attested in certain varieties of European Portuguese, as in Braga, a city in the Northwest of Portugal. This paper focuses on variation between these two forms of address in subject function (overt or null subject) and in complement function. Our goal is to verify the social and linguistic factors associated to the overt pronoun vós. The analysis of a socially stratified sample of sociolinguistic interviews shows that the overt pronoun vós is rarely used in the region and that the use of 2nd person plural null subjects as address forms is decreasing, in contrast to an increasing use of vocês and 3rd person plural forms.
Abstract
The replacement of the pronoun vós ‘you’ by vocês ‘you’ is a widely spread change in spoken Portuguese. Nonetheless, the pronoun vós can be attested in certain varieties of European Portuguese, as in Braga, a city in the Northwest of Portugal. This paper focuses on variation between these two forms of address in subject function (overt or null subject) and in complement function. Our goal is to verify the social and linguistic factors associated to the overt pronoun vós. The analysis of a socially stratified sample of sociolinguistic interviews shows that the overt pronoun vós is rarely used in the region and that the use of 2nd person plural null subjects as address forms is decreasing, in contrast to an increasing use of vocês and 3rd person plural forms.
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- The study of variation in Portuguese 1
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Part 1. Variation within national varieties of Portuguese
- Chapter 1. Stressed vowels of European Portuguese in spontaneous speech 23
- Chapter 2. Glide insertion to break a hiatus across words in European Portuguese 49
- Chapter 3. Building a prosodic profile of European Portuguese varieties 81
- Chapter 4. The yes-no question contour in Brazilian Portuguese 111
- Chapter 5. “ Vocês tenham cuidado, sois educadas para isso” 135
- Chapter 6. Variable use of strong preterites 153
- Chapter 7. Conditions on variation in pre-nominal possessives in European Portuguese 177
- Chapter 8. Clitic climbing in the speech of Braga and Lisbon 199
- Chapter 9. Linguistic and social embedding of variable concord with 1st plural nós ‘we’ in Brazilian Portuguese 219
- Chapter 10. Analyzing a parametric change in Brazilian Portuguese 233
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Part 2. Variation across national varieties of Portuguese
- Chapter 11. Agreement in Portuguese 257
- Chapter 12. The Portuguese inflected infinitive across varieties 279
- Chapter 13. Dative variation in the Portuguese of São Tomé 301
- Chapter 14. Simple past with pluperfect interpretation 321
- Proper-name index 341
- Subject index 343
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- The study of variation in Portuguese 1
-
Part 1. Variation within national varieties of Portuguese
- Chapter 1. Stressed vowels of European Portuguese in spontaneous speech 23
- Chapter 2. Glide insertion to break a hiatus across words in European Portuguese 49
- Chapter 3. Building a prosodic profile of European Portuguese varieties 81
- Chapter 4. The yes-no question contour in Brazilian Portuguese 111
- Chapter 5. “ Vocês tenham cuidado, sois educadas para isso” 135
- Chapter 6. Variable use of strong preterites 153
- Chapter 7. Conditions on variation in pre-nominal possessives in European Portuguese 177
- Chapter 8. Clitic climbing in the speech of Braga and Lisbon 199
- Chapter 9. Linguistic and social embedding of variable concord with 1st plural nós ‘we’ in Brazilian Portuguese 219
- Chapter 10. Analyzing a parametric change in Brazilian Portuguese 233
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Part 2. Variation across national varieties of Portuguese
- Chapter 11. Agreement in Portuguese 257
- Chapter 12. The Portuguese inflected infinitive across varieties 279
- Chapter 13. Dative variation in the Portuguese of São Tomé 301
- Chapter 14. Simple past with pluperfect interpretation 321
- Proper-name index 341
- Subject index 343