A Variação/Mudança Numa Perspectiva Sociofuncionalista

Abstract

This paper discusses the process variation/change under a sociofuncionalist look. It appears as a literature view that revisits concept sand theoretical and methodological assumptions of sociolinguistics and functionalist theory, in order to raise convergences related to the treatment of variation in two parts, sailing up the third approach called sociofuncionalist. It is based on the authors sociolinguistic: