O FENÔMENO DOS PRONOMES SUJEITO-OBJETO NA MÚSICA BRASILEIRA CONTEMPORÂNEA

Abstract

To this day, it is common to come across native speakers repeating phrases like "portuguese is a very difficult language" or that "they don't know how to speak Portuguese," this is mainly due to the fact that the Portuguese we study in school and see in grammars is not the Brazilian Portuguese that we actually use. Marcos Bagno is one of the greatest advocates for a study of the Portuguese language based on our educated Brazilian Portuguese, and in his book Português ou Brasileiro: um convite à pesquisa (2004), he describes several trends and features that characterize our Portuguese, placing it on the level of an autonomous variant, already so distinct from European Portuguese. Among these is the phenomenon of subject-object pronouns, described in the chapter Deixa eu dizer que eu te amo: Os pronomes sujeito-objeto which is the main motivation and theoretical basis of this research. Thus, this study aims, using as a corpus four brazilian songs released after the 2000s, to explore and analyze the occurrence of this phenomenon in contemporary brazilian music, proving its relevance as a distinguishing feature of Brazilian Portuguese. Furthermore, we also intend to explore possibilities for working with this phenomenon in Basic Education. Through the corpus analysis, we reach conclusions very close to those proposed by Bagno, especially regarding the predominance of subject case pronouns in spoken Portuguese and the general tendency — both in speech and writing — to highlight the subject and omit the object. Finally, we present a proposal for approaching subject-object pronouns in the classroom based on one of the songs in the corpus, which could serve as a model for other teachers to continue working with this phenomenon in Basic Education.