Advances in Cognitive Sociolinguistics (Cognitive Linguistic Research)

52 Augusto Soares da Silva

the 1950s and the 1970s (from 43.78% to 55.17%) and increases by 1.59%
only between the 1970s and 2000s, while the unweighted U remains fairly
even. This means that convergence is found at the level of the most fre-
quent concepts (see Table 4). At the same time, the results show a great
distance between the two varieties along the three time periods. In fact, the
results show uniformity values between 44% and 57%, which means that
half of the sample corresponds to differences between the varieties.
These results, therefore, do not confirm the divergence expectation between
EP and BP. There seems to be a convergence pattern in the first two pe-
riods, but only at the level of the weighted measure. The convergence pat-
tern is not very clear, since the difference between the percentages from
both periods is not high.
It should be mentioned that all the phonetic and graphic variants were
considered as alternative terms of the onomasiological profile in question.
For instance, the original form of the loanword goal and its adaptation
gol(o) or the terms penalty, penalti and pênalti were considered alternative
terms in relation to the profiles GOAL and PENALTY, respectively. However,
golo (P) and gol (B), as well as chuto (P) and chute (B), were not split into
alternative terms, because they are intrinsic to their respective national va-
riety.

Figure 1. Uniformity results for football terms

35,13 / 43,78

35,90 / 55,17

36,80 / 56,76

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(^11)
/ (^48)
, (^04)
36 ,^3
7 /^42
,^27
37 ,3
4 /^
58 ,0
9
(^3) 4,
(^21) /
(^56)
,30
86,09 / 86,74
83,69 / 87,32
57,22 / 49,96
77,34 / 84,81
61,09
51,86
46,93
30,85
65,10
61,85
75,80
65,77
60,61
62,39
P50 B50
P70 B70
P00 B00
58,37
55,63
76,33 / 78,52 44,89 / 43,24
35,13 / 43,78
35,90 / 55,17
36,80 / 56,76
(^32) ,
(^11)
/ (^48)
, (^04)
36 ,^3
7 /^42
,^27
37 ,3
4 /^
58 ,0
9
(^3) 4,
(^21) /
(^56)
,30
86,09 / 86,74
83,69 / 87,32
57,22 / 49,96
77,34 / 84,81
61,09
51,86
46,93
30,85
65,10
61,85
75,80
65,77
60,61
62,39
P50 B50
P70 B70
P00 B00
58,37
55,63
76,33 / 78,52 44,89 / 43,24