Dos corpora históricos-diacrônicos aos textos da EJA: um estudo descritivo da inabilidade na escrita

Abstract

This dissertation peforms the study of signs of inability in manuscripts from the 21st century, texts produced by students in Youth and Adult Education, comparing them with texts written by inept hands from the 17th, 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. The development of this work will be based on the agenda established and adopted by the Electronic Corpus of Historical Documents of the Sertão (CE-DOHS-UEFS), specifically the project Documents produced by "inept hands": linguistic and philological studies (CONSEPE 083/2020). To achieve this, a corpus was compiled consisting of 27 spontaneoustextsfrom individuals marked by interrupted educational processes and originating from historically excluded social segments, in order to answer whether the marks: if the marks of inability present in the written texts of our students today were already present in the texts of the past? And if these writers reflect in their writing the dimensions of inability? For this corpus, Escritas da EJA, unpublished documents, we propose the analysis: a) of the difficulty in representing the writing of complex syllables with /r/, /l/ and /s/; b) of the contextualization of the sociocultural profile of the students; c) of the characterization of the hands in the continuum of inability; d) of the comparative study with corpora from previous eras: XVII (Marquilhas, 2000); XVIII (Barbosa, 1999); XIX (Oliveira, 2005); XX (Santiago, 2019). Considering the production of contemporary school texts, if, on the one hand, it contributes to the task of providing a better methodological treatment to the process of constituting corpora, minimizing the challenges faced by researchers in Historical Sociolinguistics, on the other hand, it contributes to a better refinement of the work of teaching and learning writing for young people, adults and the elderly. It is concluded that the orthographic deviations analyzed in this study are reflected in records of inept hands from past centuries, as in the cases of similar spellings and represented in different centuries, such as perta for preta (17th and 21st century), perçizo for preciso and agardeci for agradeci (18th and 21st century), memo for mesmo and gotu for gosto (19th and 21st century), civirso for serviço and severnte for servente (20th and 21st century). In comparing the data, it was also concluded that there are more hands situated in the degree of partial inability, followed by maximum inability, and fewer with minimum inability.