A INFLUÊNCIA DO ESTEREÓTIPO DE GÊNERO NA INTERPRETAÇÃO DE ORAÇÕES RELATIVAS AMBÍGUAS

Abstract

In recent years, the psycholinguistic literature has focused on understanding the influence of stereotypes, especially gender stereotypes, on linguistic computation. Thus, this work intends to investigate the influence of the gender stereotype in the interpretation of ambiguous relative clauses. For this purpose, we tried to observe whether: alternating the position of the complex NS, composed of a male and a female NP, would result in a distinction of choices; and whether male, female, male and female (neutral) stereotypes would influence the distinction of choices between male and female participants. As a theoretical contribution, we used the Garden – path (GPT) theory, also known as Labyrinth Theory, as it is considered a structural model of sentence processing, in which sentences are compared to a maze, with several bifurcations to be chosen as an option. path – possibilities of parsing and interpretation. Regarding the methodology, the experiment consists of ambiguous relative clauses, bets to a complex NP (SN1 of SN2), plus the gender stereotype, and was given by questionnaires, via electronic form. The technique used in the experiment to measure the responses was offline, which, in turn, provides information about the interpretation of phrases, or statements, when processing has already been completed. As a result, it was found that the influence of the female stereotype is not as strong as what we find in the male stereotype, which makes us interpret that male stereotypes seem more marked or more ingrained in society. It was also found that in addition to some differences in behavior and judgment between men and women, we also observed that choices in general follow what studies like Pereira (2008) show, that is, in offline measures there is a preference for non-local choices.