Marcação/não-marcação das formas você e o(a) senhor(a) via referência, paralelismo e tipo de relato

Abstract

Based on sociofunctionalist assumptions we deal with the variable behavior between “você” and “o(a) senhor(a)”, as well as the reflexes form markedness principle in their performances, considering reference, parallelism and type of report. The data come from the relationship of 16 focal groups, each one constituted by a based-informant from which we collected the data and three others, one in symmetrical relationship and two in asymmetrical (upper and lower), totaling 64 participants from Cametá-PA. We obtained 182 data of “você” and 38 of “senhor(a)”, which were statistically evaluated. The form “você” is less marked, both in frequency and in structural and cognitive complexity, because it occurs in parallel structures and in own speech, which refers to less opaque and durative contexts, therefore, lower density contexts. Exception made to the reference analysis, because the form “você”, although not markedness, works in more complex contexts, those of indirect references.