Hipercorreção e mobilização de significados sociais: percepções sobre o uso do relativo qual em um estudo open-guise
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2025-03-28
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Santos, André Poltronieri
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Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo
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This dissertation aims to investigate the perceptions of listeners/readers on hypercorrect uses of the relative pronoun qual using an open-guise test (Soukup, 2013; 2016). We justify the interest in these uses because the relative pronoun qual is rarely used in speech and writing, but exhibits a relatively high frequency of hypercorrections, as demonstrated by Lorevice (2012) and Silva, A. (2021). The main hypotesis of this research is that perceptions of hypercorrections would be conditioned by the kind of relative clause (prepositional phrase chopping or a hypercorrect use of qual), as well as the participants’ academic background. The experiment’s protocol consisted of presenting two pairs of stimuli, recorded by the same speaker, which differed only in terms of the relative pronouns (que, in PP-chopping, and a hypercorrect use of qual). Even though we used the voices of two different subjects, each participant listened to the stimuli in the voice of only one of them. In addition to the spoken stimuli, each participant evaluated a written stimulus that presented i) two PP-chopping relative clauses, or ii) two hypercorrections of qual. The results of the experiment show that, even though participants knew they were listening to, and evaluating the voices of the same speaker, and that the audio recordings were simulations, i. e., not samples of spontaneous speech, they showed distinct perceptions about the two variants presented on the stimuli. These perceptions were also conditioned to some extent to social variables, but structural factors showed stronger effects on the perceptions, particularly the fact that participants had heard the second pair of stimuli, which presented a similar contrast between the variants of the first pair, suggestive of a priming effect actuation (Greenbaum, 1976; Teixeira, 2016). Overall, the analysis of regression models and several paired t-tests showed that participants perceived the stimuli with hypercorrection of qual as having higher status and being more pedantic. However, we observed that participants’ academic background was an important conditioner in their perceptions of admiration: while the group of Letras (Languages and Literature) and related courses had perceptions of less admiration about the stimuli with the hypercorrection of qual of the second pair, participants of non-related courses did not differentiate such stimuli in terms of this characteristic. As for the written stimuli, despite similarities between the two groups of participants, only those from Letras and related courses perceived the hypercorrections of qual as more pedantic. In short, these results allow us to argue that the hypercorrect use of the relative qual convey social meanings.
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Sociolinguística , Percepção , Morfologia