Crenças linguísticas dos falantes escolarizados de Fortaleza

Abstract

This article presents a survey of beliefs about the language made with educated speakers in Fortaleza and a previous theoretical presentation of the subject, from studies of Sociolinguistics. Six people were interviewed, and there were ten questions to each. The questions are made about themes like the speaking of the different socioeconomic classes, the regional speaking of Fortaleza, the difference between the ways of speaking that the speakers perceive. The results, though early, due to the reduced number of respondents, show that many beliefs about language are present in people’s thinking.