76 Augusto Soares da Silva
Football:
U(P00,Psub00) ≅ U(B00,Bsub00)
79.48% ≅ 82.18%
U’(P00,Psub00) ≅ U’(B00,Bsub00)
80.93% ≅ 78.76%
Clothing:
U(P00,Psub00) > U(B00,Bsub00)
59.94% > 51.71%
U’(P00,Psub00) > U’(B00,Bsub00)
70.99% > 57.94%The hypothesis of a greater distance between the standard and the substan-
dard strata in the Brazilian variety is confirmed in the sub-corpus of cloth-
ing but not in the sub-corpus of football.
In the case of football, there is quite a high uniformity result between
the standard (newspapers) and the substandard (chats) in each variety,
which may suggest lexical standardization of the Internet chats. Internet
chat users tend to be conformist when they name concepts as popular as
football. Furthermore, the informal language used in Internet chats tends to
be determined by linguistic factors other than lexical factors.
We are now able to report on the level of uniformity between the two
varieties at the level of the substandard strata and compare it with the un-
iformity at the level of the standard data in the same period. In the case of
football, the uniformity value between the two varieties at the level of the
substandard strata (59.21%) is as low as the uniformity value of the stan-
dard strata (56.76%, in Figure 1): formally, U’ (Psub00, Bsub00) 59.21% ≅
U’ (P00, B00) 56.76%. In other words, the substantial distance between
both varieties is verified both at the level of the standard strata and subs-
tandard strata. In the case of clothing, it has to be said that the distance
between the two varieties is even wider at the substandard level (45.78%)
than at standard level (57.11%, in Figure 2): U’ (Psub00, Bsub00) 45.78% <
U’ (P00, B00) 57.11%. Although uniformity between the two varieties at
the substandard level was not measured for periods prior to 1990/2000, the
low value of uniformity at the substandard level reflects the clear divergent
evolution between the two varieties.