Interview with Ana Maria Carvalho (AC) by Xoán Carlos Lagares (XL)
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https://doi.org/10.31513/linguistica.2026.v22n1a75286Abstract
Professor Ana Maria Carvalho is a prominent Brazilian sociolinguist whose significant academic work focuses on language contact; since completing her Ph.D.—at the University of California, Berkeley —she has investigated the Spanish varieties spoken in Arizona, USA, and in Uruguayan Portuguese, a linguistic variety spoken in northern Uruguay, along the border with Brazil, in the departments of Rivera, Artigas, Cerro Largo, Tacuarembó, and Salto. In this interview, the director of the film “Vozes das Margens” discusses the motivations and characteristics of the “sociolinguistic documentary” as a film genre, and the challenges and opportunities it presents for researchers and speech communities, in addition to explaining fundamental aspects of this specific situation of linguistic contact: the effects of the overlap with Spanish as the official language, the issue of naming the linguistic variety—with its ideological implications—the relationship with Brazilian Portuguese, and the conflict between local identities and normative ideals.
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