Attitudes and perceptions about inclusive language and non-binary pronouns: a diagnostic study with Brazilian speakers
Abstract
In order to debate the conditioning of social norms in the implementation of new linguistic forms in a speech community, in this paper I discuss the relationship between the attitudes of a sample of Brazilian Portuguese speakers towards the plausibility of adopting strategies for an inclusive language, encompassing the possibility of the insertion of neopronouns into the grammar of this language, and their perceptions about this same language. Supported by the idea that linguistic ideologies circulate in all societies, understood as socially incorporated understandings about the nature, structure and linguistic uses, I start from the sociolinguistic premise of perception as the interlocutor's judgment, by correlating social factors to sociolinguistic features, building a pattern of social consciousness in the community. And, in turn, attitudes as the reactions, positive or negative, of this interlocutor towards the possibility of implementing new pronoun forms for gender. The discussion is based on an offline experiment carried out with participants, who responded to an online questionnaire containing 79 questions about (a) their social profile, (b) their perceptions regarding the use of canonical third-person pronouns, which express gender marks in the language, (c) their perceptions about linguistic change and grammatical gender, and, finally, (d) their opinion regarding the use of non-binary pronouns. The sample results demonstrate a divergence between their attitudes and their linguistic perceptions, with the former tendencies being progressive and the latter being conservative.
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