Pensamentos e crenças a respeito do uso e do ensino das línguas faladas na localidade paranaense de Irati

Abstract

This article presents partial results of research on linguistic beliefs and attitudes expressed by speakers from Irati, a city in Paraná that presents a complex sociolinguistic scenario. As guidelines for this study, we used the theoretical and methodological principles of Sociology of Language, Sociolinguistics and Social Psychology concerning the analysis of linguistic beliefs and attitudes. The corpus comes from the Project Crenças e atitudes linguísticas: um estudo da relação do português com línguas de contato (AGUILERA, 2009). From the questionnaire of 48 questions, applied to eighteen respondents, we selected seven questions that reveal thoughts and beliefs about the speakers’ linguistic behavior and the teaching of the languages spoken in the town. The results showed, in general, an attitude of openness in relation to the cultivation heritage languages, both in the institutional sphere (school and the church) and in the sphere of everyday interactions.