Nationalist purism, racialization and sexualization: colonial linguistic ideologies in the online-offline nexus
Situated in the field of contemporary Applied Linguistics, this article aims to critically interpret linguistic ideologies (PINTO, 2013; MOITA-LOPES, 2013; GAL, 2023) mobilized in the online public controversies surrounding the news article “There are Portuguese children who only speak ‘Brazilian’”,...
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| Formato: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2025 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Recursos: | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP) |
| Repositorio: | Trabalhos em Lingüística Aplicada (Online) |
| Idioma: | portugués |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.periodicos.sbu.unicamp.br:article/8676778 |
| Acesso em linha: | https://periodicos.sbu.unicamp.br/ojs/index.php/tla/article/view/8676778 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palavra-chave: | Colonialismo linguístico Hierarquias raciais Etnografia digital Ideologias linguísticas coloniais Linguistic colobialism Racial hierarchies Digital ethnography Colonial linguistc ideologies Colonialismo lingüístico Jerarquías raciales Etnografía digital Ideologías lingüísticas coloniales |
| Resumo: | Situated in the field of contemporary Applied Linguistics, this article aims to critically interpret linguistic ideologies (PINTO, 2013; MOITA-LOPES, 2013; GAL, 2023) mobilized in the online public controversies surrounding the news article “There are Portuguese children who only speak ‘Brazilian’”, published by the Portuguese newspaper Diário de Notícias in November 2021. To this end, we conducted a non-participant digital ethnography (BLOMMAERT, 2010; CIBORGA, 2022) between June and November 2023 on the newspaper's Facebook page. The analysis of the data generated in the ethnographic work allows us to argue about an intense circulation of “colonial linguistic ideologies” in the metalinguistic practices analyzed in the online/offline nexus. In general terms, these ideologies act in the affirmation of nationalist linguistic purism as a linguistic policy of racial sanitization and in dynamics of feminization and sexualization of languages and their speakers as instances of violent linguistic embodiment. These processes erase the invention of languages (MAKONI; PENNYCOOK, 2005) as a technology of domination and Christianization of colonized peoples, since they depreciate the languages, cultures and identities of Brazilian peoples (GONZALEZ, 1984; MUNIZ, 2016) due to a supposed European superiority, legitimizing and updating diffuse discourses of colonial violence, against the backdrop of assimilationist imaginaries disseminated in the transnational rhetoric that Brazil and Portugal were “brother countries”. |
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