Questão FC700084
Leia o texto a seguir para responder à questão. Speakers of different languages have different sounds. Thus, as there is no equivalent in English for the ‘click’ in the South Afric
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VUNESP · 2025
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Speakers of different languages have different sounds. Thus, as there is no equivalent in English for the ‘click’ in the South African language Xhosa, English speakers find it difficult to produce. British speakers mangle French vowels because they are not the same as the English ones. Japanese speakers, on the other hand, do not have different phonemes for /l/ and /r/ and so have difficulty differentiating between them.
Whereas in some languages there seems to be a close relationship between sounds and spelling, in English this is often not the case. The sound /ʌ/, for example, can be realized in a number of different spellings (e.g. won, young, funny, flood). The letters ou, on the other hand, can be pronounced in a number of different ways (e.g. enough, through, though, and even journey). A lot depends on the sounds that come before or after them, but the fact remains that we spell some sounds in a variety of different ways, and we have a variety of different sounds for the same spelling.
(Jeremy Harmer. The practice of English language teaching, 2007)
In the fragment at the end of the text “and we have a variety of different sounds for the same spelling”, the bolded word refers to
- English language learners.
- language speakers in general.
- English language speakers.
- the English language morphological system.
- the writer and his foreign readers.
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No contexto do trecho, o pronome we retoma a ideia apresentada na frase anterior: “in English this is often not the case”, seguida por exemplos de grafia e pronúncia próprios do inglês. Assim, we refere-se ao grupo que usa e pratica aquela língua, ou seja, aos falantes de inglês.
Gramaticalmente, o uso do primeiro pessoa do plural aqui funciona como generalização sobre uma comunidade linguística. A expressão “we spell” indica uma prática coletiva de ortografia e não a ação de um indivíduo isolado.
Portanto, a leitura coerente do texto mostra que we equivale aos falantes da língua inglesa, que enfrentam as variações entre som e escrita exemplificadas.
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