The political representation of languages in official websites: a discourse about language

• Grant number: 12/03603-5
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Doctorate
• Start date: September 13, 2012
• End date: September 12, 2013
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Linguistics - Linguistic Theory and Analysis
• Principal Investigator: Soeli Maria Schreiber da Silva
• Grantee: André Stefferson Martins Stahlhauer
• Supervisor: Patrick Sériot
• Host Institution: Centro de Educação e Ciências Humanas (CECH). Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCAR). São Carlos , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: Université de Lausanne (UNIL), Switzerland
• Associated to the scholarship: 10/15546-0 - The representation of languages in cyberspace: an enunciative function in contemporary society, BP.DR

Abstract

We intend, in this work, to study the discourse about language on websites. Our goal is to observe the relationships Language / State / Nation as political regulations that focus on the sayings about languages. Discussing these relationships involves reflection on the policy that determines the functioning of the discourse about languages in relation to their historical processes as they are, under this view, shown in relation to the place(s) and the people(s) that speak them. In this perspective, we see the different types of processes that focus on representations by the State, on websites, as it includes or excludes the speakers to groups, communities or nations (AU)