CONTRIBUTIONS OF PHONOLOGY AND DISCOURSE ANALYSIS TO EXPLAIN LINGUISTIC VARIATIONS IN BRAZILIAN PORTUGUESE

Abstract

The purpose of this work is to show that languages change, undergo alteration and that is why an attempt to do so or to nationalize the meanings produced in them is not a problem. For the study of discourse, we used the assumptions of discourse analysis by Pêcheux (1997) and Orlandi (1998, 2002, 2006, 2012). For phonology studies we used Seara, Nunes and Lazzarotto (2011) and Azeredo (2008). We used the bibliographic method, and an analytical-descriptive approach from the analysis of the corpus of the Norma Urbano Culta project (NURC/RJ). We seek to study the suppressions at the beginning, inside and at the end that reduce words. The result showed that this process of language alteration is something historical. But nowadays, it is noticed that it has a blunt cause: colloquial and even cultured language has assimilated the aspects of liquidity and agility of the information age. We assume that we are increasingly looking for a synthetic and efficient language.