Rosa Virgínia Mattos e Silva e a história social linguística do Brasil
In the second half of the twentieth century, Rosa Virgínia Mattos e Silva represented acute and provocative thinking concerning the linguistic social history of Brazil. In this paper, I pay homage to this eminent linguist, discussing five of her key proposals on the subject, namely: 1) The linguisti...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | Catalan |
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Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
2015-01-01
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| Series: | Estudos de Linguistica Galega |
| Online Access: | http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=305641135005 |
| Summary: | In the second half of the twentieth century, Rosa Virgínia Mattos e Silva represented acute and provocative thinking concerning the linguistic social history of Brazil. In this paper, I pay homage to this eminent linguist, discussing five of her key proposals on the subject, namely: 1) The linguistic history of Brazil is not restricted to the history of the Portuguese language in Brazil, or the history of Brazilian Portuguese. 2) Brazilian Portuguese emerged in a multilingual context: language contact is therefore a constitutive element in its development. 3) On the linguistic stage of colonial Brazil, three principal actors stand out: European Portuguese, the indigenous linguas francas (línguas gerais) and general Brazilian Portuguese. 4) Africans and Afro-descendants were the major disseminators of the Portuguese language in Brazil and the key «formatters» (formatadores) of Brazilian Portuguese in its main social variety - popular Brazilian Portuguese. 5) The socio-historical and linguistic past of Brazil must be interpreted in order to understand the «variable, heterogeneous, plural and polarized» Brazilian Portuguese of today. |
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| ISSN: | 1889-2566 1989-578X |