<b>Power politics and the exclusion of individuals and languages in Brazilian society</b> - DOI: 10.4025/actascilangcult.v30i2.477

Abstract

Current essay analyzes the introduction of bilingualism in the mid-1970s as a strategy of power politics to domesticate linguistic differences among the indigenous peoples of Brazil. Discourse Analysis’s theoretical presuppositions verify the production conditions and the social and historical context in which bilingual learning was introduced and established. Coupled to the above, Foucault’s studies problematize the manner power spreads throughout society with the exclusion of certain groups and cultural aspects linked to them. Further, Honório (2006) investigates the introduction of bilingualism in Brazil. Issues on the problem of the introduction of bilingualism have been produced through the intercrossing of the above-mentioned theories with special reference to the linguistic situation of a Kaingang indigenous community