Português do Brasil: uma abordagem do uso proclítico em textos jornalísticos brasileiros

Abstract

This article addresses the use of proclisis in texts published by the online magazine Época, from a theoretical perspective of Brazilian Portuguese. It aims to show the uses of unstressed pronoun placement in journalistic texts in order to investigate proclitic preference; to this end, it relies on Labovian concept of linguistic change and on Brazilian researchers such as Azevedo, Leite, Lobo, Lucchesi, Mattos e Silva, and Orlandi. It adopts as methodology the collection of written journalistic texts, with the survey and analysis of proclitic uses in cases where grammatical prescription foresees enclitic or mesoclitic use; it concludes that the process of Brazilianization of the Portuguese language has been proven through research in the area of ​​language, with proclitic use being one of the results that indicate the constitution of a Brazilian Portuguese, with its own phonomorphosyntactic and semantic-pragmatic characteristics.