Atitudes e crenças linguísticas na comunidade quilombola Nossa Senhora das Graças da vila do Cravo no município de Concórdia do Pará

Abstract

This research focuses on the beliefs and linguistic attitudes of quilombolas from the Nossa Senhora das Graças da Vila do Cravo community, in Concórdia do Pará, northeast Pará. The general aim of this study is to analyze the community's linguistic attitudes towards their own language and other varieties, co nsidering gender and age. The specific objective is to investigate the cognitive, conative and affective influences on language attitude, as well as to examine prejudice and the cultural value of language. This work can influence and assist in the developm ent of other research that can help quilombola communities to be recognized and to estimate their linguistic and cultural diversity. The work was carried out using the theoretical and methodological frameworks of Lambert (1972) and Labov (1998), sociolingu istics and studies on beliefs and attitudes. It qualifies as a quantitative qualitative study, which combines the description, classification and interpretation of information based on interviews. The study included a sample of 8 collaborators, 4 female an d 4 male, aged between 18 and 30 and over 50, all residents of the community and children of native parents. Interview protocols were used as data collection tools, using a qualitative questionnaire on linguistic beliefs and attitudes (LABOV, 1979), and through these, data was collected that shows a significant frequency of variable phenomena typical of Pará vari eties, as well as characteristic of the speech community. In addition, the preservation of the Quilombola linguistic variety is strengthened by the feeling of identity, which results in a linguistic security that maintains the ways in which the language is used.