Tecendo o cenário geopolítico e sociolinguístico: capítulos da obra

Abstract

The review aims to present the work “Portuguese in the 21st century: Geopolitical and sociolinguistic scenario, by the scholar and linguist Luiz Paulo de Moita Lopes, published in 2013 by Editora Parábola. Contrasts, diversity, linguistic heterogeneity have always represented the historical course of linguistic studies. Since the emergence of language science, Ferdinand de Saussure (1916) already understood the study of language and language, considering language as heteroclite, but it was not possible to study it through a structuralist model. Xoán Lagares (2018), in his book “Qual linguistic policy? contemporary glotopolitical challenges, refers to language as a field of struggle, a linguistic activism. Paulo Freire (1992, p.78), in studies carried out, recognizes that “[...] the colonized could never be seen and profiled by the colonizers as cultured people, capable, intelligent, imaginative, worthy of their freedom, producers of a language that, being language, marches and changes and grows historically and socially”. The philosopher asserts that “[...] the colonized [...] speak dialects doomed to never express the 'truth of science', 'the mysteries of transcendence' and the 'beauty of the world'. Thus, in the presentation of the review, the aim is to bring to the fore concepts deepened by the authors of the work, with regard to 21st century Portuguese, the interfaces that guided the studies of the Portuguese language, the historical, geopolitical and ethnographic perspective, represented by the four continents in which the Portuguese language left its “passage”, during the Portuguese colonization and what this brought as a consequence for the 21st century.