ABSTRACT
Based on a question about the social dimension’s place in a socio-functionalist approach, the aim of this paper is threefold: (1) to reflect on the functional and social domains of language made up of multilayers, (2) to propose an interdomain articulation represented by a socio-functional model, and (3) to show its applicability to two phenomena in variation/change. The notion of functional domain is based on Givón (2001Givón, T. (2001). Syntax: An introduction (Vols. I-II). John Benjamins. ; 2002Givón, T. (2002). Bio-linguistics. John Benjamins. ), Hopper (1991Hopper, P. (1991). On some principles of grammaticization. In E. C. Traugott, & B. Heine (Eds.), Approaches to grammaticalization (pp.17-35). John Benjamins.) and Görski e Tavares (2017Görski, E. M., & Tavares, M. A. (2017). O objeto de estudo na interface variação gramaticalização. In M. Bagno, V. Casseb-Galvão, & T. Rezende (Eds.), Dinâmicas funcionais da mudança linguística (pp. 35-63). Parábola.), and the notion of social domain is basically anchored in Eckert (2008Eckert, P. (2008). Variation and the indexical field. Journal of Sociolinguistics, 12(4), 453-476. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9841.2008.00374.x.
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; 2016Eckert, P. (2016). Third wave variationism (pp. 1-16). Oxford University Press. https://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199935345.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780199935345-e-27.
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; 2018Eckert, P. (2018). Meaning and linguistic variation: The third wave in sociolinguistics. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316403242.
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; 2019Eckert, P. (2019). The limits of meaning: Social indexicality, variation, and the cline of interiority. Language, 95(4), 751-776. https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.2019.0072.
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), Silverstein (2003Silverstein, M. (2003). Indexical order and dialectics of sociolinguistic life. Language & communication, 23, 193-229. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0271530903000132.
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), and Kiesling (2013Kiesling, S. F. (2013). Constructing identity. In J. Chambers, & N. Schilling (Eds.), The handbook of language variation and change (pp. 448-467) (2. ed.). Blackwell.). The interdomain articulation is illustrated with the use of interactive discourse markers sabe? (‘you know’) and entende? (you understand?) and the -STE segment added to verbal and non-verbal base, based on the works of Valle (2014Valle, C. R. M. (2014). Multifuncionalidade, mudança e variação de marcadores discursivos derivados de verbos cognitivos: forças semântico-pragmáticas, estilísticas e identitárias em competição. Tese (Doutorado em Linguística). Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina. https://repositorio.ufsc.br/xmlui/handle/123456789/130926
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) e Amaral (2020Amaral, K. (2020). Emergência de usos, variação e identidade: o caso de {-STE} na página Tal Qual Dublagens. Dissertação (Mestrado em Linguística). Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina. https://repositorio.ufsc.br/handle/123456789/216147.
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), respectively. We believe that we advanced in theoretical and methodological discussions on the interface between functionalism and variationist sociolinguistics by highlighting the social meaning and its articulation with the semantic-pragmatic meaning as well as proposing an integrated analytical practice.
Keywords:
sociofunctional domain; semantic-pragmatic meaning; social meaning; analytical practice
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