Diversity and standardization in two linguistic tools of Portuguese as foreign language: considerations from a glotopolitical perspective

• Grant number: 16/21072-8
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Doctorate
• Effective date (Start): March 20, 2017
• Effective date (End): February 17, 2018
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Linguistics - Linguistic Theory and Analysis
• Principal Investigator: Luciana Salazar Salgado
• Grantee: Helena Maria Boschi da Silva
• Supervisor: Elvira Narvaja de Arnoux
• Host Institution: Centro de Educação e Ciências Humanas (CECH). Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCAR). São Carlos , SP, Brazil
• Research place: Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA), Argentina
• Associated to the scholarship: 15/01368-7 - Culture, imaginaries and discourse communities: a study of teaching materials of Portuguese for foreigners, BP.DR

Abstract

Following recent research focused on Brazilian Portuguese and its teaching as a foreign language in an international context, we aim to analyze the teaching materials collection Brasil Intercultural (Intercultural Brazil) and the website Portal de Professores de Português Língua Estrangeira (Portuguese as Foreign Language Teachers Portal) as linguistic tools that represent the building of two discursivizations: the "Latin American identity" and the "Lusophony". From a glotopolitical perspective, we will observe how linguistic ideologies set in public debates conflict in those materials, analyzing their implications in teaching and in the circulation of imaginaries about language and culture related to Brazil. (AU)