Variação e diversidade linguistica : ampliando a consciência linguistica dos alunos da zona rural por meio das tiras da ''turma do xaxado'

Abstract

The National Common Curricular Base (BRAZIL, 2017) recommends working with the language that recognizes it as a (geo) political, historical, cultural, variable, heterogeneous phenomenon and sensitive to the contexts of these uses, living its forms of identity, personal and collective expression. Thus, It can be seen in this document that the aspects of diversity and variation are recognized as something “per se” to language and also points out that one must seek an education that also values the adequacy and relevance of linguistic variety to communicative situations, depending on the fields of social activity, the context, and the interlocutors, through the stylization, selection, and organization of linguistic resources. In this direction, this resourch aims to carry out an interventionist investigation with students from the rural area of the city of Sobrado - PB that promotes reflection and awareness about linguistic diversity and variation, through activities with strips from the Turma do Xaxado that allow the combat linguistic prejudice. For its development, the considerations of Bagno (2007, 2002, 2001), Faraco (2008), and Lucchesi (2015) were used, who share that there is no homogeneous language and that linguistic diversity is a factor of wealth and dynamism. The studies by Vergueiro and Santos (2015), Vergueiro and Ramos (2009, 2007), and Ramos (2017) were also used, which advocate the use of comics as an important language teaching tool. The “Turma do Xaxado” strips, which have a hybrid language, playful and with narratives set in the countryside, were used as a support tool. Along this path, utilizing an interventional approach, was applied the model of sociolinguistic analysis of the continuous by Bortoni-Ricardo (2004), working on the phenomena of linguistic diversity present in the comic strips and in the social context in which students are inserted in the analysis of students data under the bias of Sociolinguistics. Because of the questions and discussions raised during the application of the research, the results obtained showed that the students had some perception, although under construction, about the existence of variation in the language. We could also see that the social and linguistic behaviors of the characters being associated with those of the students made it possible to increase awareness of linguistic diversity through reflections on the social value attributed to some variants and the understanding that their ways of speaking can be submitted to positive and negative judgments that can contribute to the emergence of linguistic prejudice, including in the school environment. The students' reports showed that some were already victims of prejudice against the use of language and that others even reproduced this behavior with their pairs, but, from the discussions in the classroom, they realized the importance of a change in attitude.