Sobre o estilo na sociolinguística de terceira onda: perspectivas teórico-metodológicas

Abstract

The stylistic variation receives a different theoretical and methodological approach in the three waves of sociolinguistics (ECKERT, 2012) implying diversified descriptions of this variable phenomenon. In Sociolinguistics Variationist, the same as first wave, stylistic variation is seen as the result of the speaker's belonging to macrosocial categories such as class, and the monitoring of speech in certain stylistic contexts. In this perspective, the speaker is seen as a passive agent in the construction of his stylistic behavior. The focus on social networks and local categories as well as an ethnographic methodology of data collection and analysis, resulted in the description of stylistic variation as a reflection of the individual's insertion in social networks and the value given to vernacular in such networks. Studies of stylistic variation in social networks fall under the Ethnographic Sociolinguistics, also called second wave. The search for the social meaning of stylistic variation, the study of speakers in their microsocial relationships, such as those that can be perceived in communities of practice, and persona modulation, are characteristics of the study of stylistic variation in Stylistic Sociolinguistics, or third wave . In this paper, we present the study of stylistic variation in the three waves of sociolinguistics, focusing on style in stylistic sociolinguistics.