O gênero na região Nordeste: morfologia e estigma social

Abstract

This thesis discusses the morphemes used to identify the feminine gender of the words thief, chief, German, and president, as well as other linguistic forms used to identify the concepts ‘a woman who robbers’, ‘a leading woman’, ‘a woman born in Germany’, and ‘a woman in the presidency’. In this analysis, the corpus was composed by audio records of speech, collected in loco, based on the Questionário Morfossintático from the Projeto Atlas Linguístico do Brasil - Projeto ALiB (Comitê Nacional do Projeto ALiB, 2001) in 77 cities in the Northeast Region of Brazil. 344 interviewees were selected based on the criteria of citizenship, residence in the city of study, and the following social variables: diatopy, sex, age (age group I: 18-30 years and age group II: 50-65 years), and scholarship (elementary school and academic degree). This research aims to identify the possibilities of ways to address gender in Portuguese and its sociolinguistic constraints. In addition to the analysis of the collected data, it contains a theoretical discussion about the grammatical category of gender and the morphological process of inflection as well as a discussion about the historical and social view of gender. This work is established through the methodological principles of Dialectology, Geolinguistic, and Sociolinguistics.