ESTRUTURA DE PARTICIPAÇÃO E ALINHAMENTO EM ENTREVISTAS COM ESTUDANTES CABOVERDIANOS

Abstract

The aim of this article is to provide a brief analysis of the participation structure of Cape Verdean students in interviews conducted by PROFALA/UFC from the PEC-G Program at the Federal University of Ceará and UNILAB. The study is a segment of a thesis on Politeness in interviews with Cape Verdean and Timorese speakers, which falls within three theoretical frameworks: Pragmatics, Interactional Sociolinguistics, and Conversation Analysis. For this article, only the latter two frameworks will be considered in order to lay the foundations for understanding the organizational structures of interaction. As the primary representatives of these theoretical approaches, Goffman (1967, 1979, 2002) and Philips (1972) were selected. The results demonstrate the dynamics of role exchanges, animators-authors, frame shifts, and alignments. The realignment in the role of authors makes concerns about face more apparent, and the structure of type 1 seems more likely to create greater tension among the interactants. The participation structure appears to have contributed to the effective exercise of linguistic politeness in the interactions under study.

Keywords: interaction; participation structure; alignment.