Folk Nurc? Uma proposta de análise em linguística popular

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to reveal how folk data are recurrent (and can be observed) in the Norma Urbana Culta (NURC) Project, started in the late 1960s in the Brazilian cities of Recife, Salvador, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo and Porto Alegre. Our hypotheses indicate that, although the NURC Project has not collected linguistic data aiming specifically to analyze the manifestations of the speakers about the language they use, these manifestations can be verified in the most diverse communication situations: there are a series of comments made by (and between to) interviewees and researchers who can be characterized as non-specialized manifestations about language, that is, folk knowledge about linguistic practices and theories. Therefore, we mobilized a theoretical set still under construction in Brazil known as Folk Linguistics (NIEDZIELSKI; PRESTON, 2003, PAVEAU, 2020, GONÇALVES, 2021), centered on the common speaker, in which non-specialists comment on their own language (or about the speech of other members of a given speech community). Finally, we highlight the importance of research carried out in Brazil within the scope of the NURC Project, especially if integrated with recent discussions on Folk Linguistics.