Portuguese language and citizenship in Brazil an agenda for the XXI century
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https://doi.org/10.31513/linguistica.2024.v20n2a64471Abstract
Through a lato sensu interdisciplinary approach (from theoretical linguistics to glottodidactics via sociolinguistics), which moves from the linguistic rights enshrined, more or less explicitly, in the country’s Magna Carta constitution, this contribution aims to delve into the concrete didactic-pedagogical practices adopted by 21st-century Brazil in an attempt to guarantee, not only formally, that full and active citizenship of which language is an indispensable element, also and above all in terms of education and linguistic competence, as well as in the more obvious ones of a tool for free expression. To this end, however, instead of examining the official language policies of inclusion/exclusion of internal alloglot minorities (or those produced by the new migratory flows), this contribution will focus rather on their more interesting hidden implications, inscribed, for example, in the ways of teaching Portuguese as a mother tongue, which, although ostensibly inspired by principles of citizenship, turn out even today to be inherently discriminatory, especially toward that majority of speakers whose non-standard norms continue to be disregarded by the abstractly prescriptive monocentrism of the school, which is often, unfortunately, still poorly capable of forming true citizens.
Keywords: Citizenship. Portuguese language. Brazilian Portuguese. Norm. Brazil.
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