NOS LIMITES DA PAIXÃO: OS RETRATOS DA VARIAÇÃO DE 2SG NA FALA DE PERSONAGENS ÍNTIMOS EM "MULHERES APAIXONADAS", "CELEBRIDADE", "A GRANDE FAMÍLIA" E "RICOS DE AMOR"

Abstract

In this paper, the study object is the pronominal expression of the second-person singular (2SG), specifically tu and você, when act as the subject of sentence. To investigate this phenomenon in carioca/fluminense Brazilian Portuguese’s (BP) variety, the corpus is constituted by four national contemporary audiovisual productions: the soap operas Celebridade (2003) and Mulheres Apaixonadas (2003), the series A Grande Família (2001-2014) and the movie Ricos de Amor (2020). In total, we collected 322 occurrences, which were analyzed in light of the assumptions of Variationist Sociolinguistics (Weinreich; Labov; Herzog, 2006 [1968]; Labov, 2008 [1972]) and Ethnography of Communication (Hymes, 1972). Considering corpus’ limitations (cf. Jost, 2009), dwelling on fictional narratives can be verisimilar, though can’t represent the real in its totality (cf. Marques; Lisbôa Filho, 2012; Balogh, 2002), the results, which express “‘represented speech’ data” (Tosi, 2021, p. 28), conducts the pronoun tu to specifics contexts of use: (i) recurrency on males characters’ linguistic performances; (ii) majority association to interactional situations circumscribed by conflicts; (iii) predominance on privative locals; (iv) presence in situations where characters assume specific social roles (e.g., lover).