Variationist Sociolinguistics. Pluridimensional Dialectology and Perceptual Dialectology. Linguistic attitudes and perceptions. Variation "tu" and "you". Interviews and perceptual questionnaire. Statistical data.
The present paper aims to expose an ongoing research on the variation "tu" and "you" of southern migrants, as well as of migrants' children who came from the southern region and reside in the municipality of Cláudia. The goal of the work is to investigate the attitudes and linguistic perceptions about the "tu" and "você" variation, as well as to explore the journey of southern migrants in the constitution of the municipality. The theoretical and methodological assumptions were based on Variationist Sociolinguistics and Pluridimensional and Perceptual Dialectology. The profile of the participants includes the most varied professions, with a greater recurrence of informants coming from Paraná and Santa Catarina. Regarding the field research, 24 interviews were carried out, being 8 with migrants from the urban area, 4 female and the same number for female, and 4 from the rural area, 2 for each sex, who had lived at least 15 years in the place. Regarding the children, there was the same distribution of subjects with the criterion of age between 18 and 40 years. In the interviews, three questionnaires were applied to the migrants, in order to get to know the formation of the city, and two to the children of these migrants. The three questionnaires were based on the research developed by Reis (2018) and Oushiro (2015), which enabled the statistical rounds with the help of the R Program, whose purpose is to make graphs and tables, by means of scripts, with which, from the moment one has contact and practice, the data are generated with greater agility and speed. Excel was also used, responsible for generating data that require larger graphs. Both of these tools provide greater agility in the search for quantitative data. Theoretical support is provided by Labov (2008), Lopes (2017), Long and Preston (1999), Preston (1989; 1999; 2010), Thun (2009), among others. From the theoretical reading, the collected and analyzed data it can be inferred that the variation "tu" is present as a characteristic of both migrants and their children. However, the migratory process enabled the variation "you", which was also passed to the descendants. In this perspective, the "tu" and "you" variation is registered in the municipality. In the research we also found the forms of treatment, characteristic of some participants, as the use of the pronoun "senhor/a" to designate older people. That is, in addition to the two were studied, the survey showed that there are more variations, in the treatment of both closer people, older people or parents. The statistical rounds demonstrate the percentage of informants corresponding, or not, to each of the nine variables investigated, variables that are found in this work, based on the assumptions of Lopes (2017), who also developed a research with this strand, but in the city of Chapecó. With the data we obtained much more than the variation, in the case of migrants were life stories, with a process of colonization and coming to the city of many difficulties but that with the effort of these, it was possible to stabilize and today are proud of the experiences in the city of Cláudia.