Variationist Analysis of Mozambican Portuguese based on Kizomba music: the case of "diverted" pronominalization and pronominal order

O caso de pronominalização “desviada” e ordem pronominal

Abstract

In the light of morphosyntactic analysis, the study, based on the contribution of the Theory of Variation and Change (Weinreich; Labov; Herzog, 1968 [2006]), aims to analyze pronominalization and pronominal order in Mozambican Kizomba music, as well as to discuss the appropriation of unrecognizable structures by the standard European norm, with a view to building hypotheses of a possible search for autonomization of Mozambican speech. Thus, this work seeks to contribute to the description of Mozambican Portuguese (hereinafter, PM) in the various means of its use and in the construction of reflections on its current scenario. For that, there were analyzed seven (7) lyrics of the song Kizomba by seven (7) Mozambican musicians, accessed on the website Letras; In the theoretical-methodological framework used, it was important to use the Goldvarb X computer program (Robinson; Lawrence; Tagliamonte, 2001) for percentage analysis. The results show "diverted" pronominalization, especially in the 17-24 age group and a categorical or absolute occurrence of proclisis, both in simple and complex verbal structures, regardless of any phrasing or morphosyntactic context. These results make us reflect that it is very possibly, for musicians, a way of entering the social context of Mozambique, of identity affirmation and of the search for the autonomy of the Mozambican variety, breaking, in this way, the standard language culture that has long been plaguing the communication of Mozambicans.