Language Ideology in Brazilian Indigenous Academic Production
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Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="https://periodicos.unemat.br/index.php/norteamentos/article/view/13324" target="_blank" >https://periodicos.unemat.br/index.php/norteamentos/article/view/13324</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.30681/rln.v18i54.13324" target="_blank" >10.30681/rln.v18i54.13324</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Language Ideology in Brazilian Indigenous Academic Production
Original language description
This work maps academic discussions proposed by indigenous researchers within a broader context in which the presence of people from diverse ethnicities and cultural backgrounds in Brazilian universities have challenged the hegemonic status of Eurocentric concepts and methods of knowledge production. Specifically, we seek to identify which language ideologies – understood as beliefs about language use and structure (Silverstein, 1979) – they mobilize in their discourses and meta-discourses. Our corpus comprises fifteen texts authored by self-declared Indigenous researchers (including articles, undergraduate theses and master’s dissertations) in Linguistics and related fields in the Social Sciences. From this material, we found three major recurring themes: (1) the principles guiding academic education for indigenous teachers; (2) efforts towards the preservation and/or revitalization of Indigenous languages; (3) the challenges faced by Indigenous students and scholars within the university setting. The results indicate that indigenous researchers have been expanding the boundaries of academic orthodoxies, particularly with respect to research methodologies and reporting strategies. In their work, language is approached not as an abstract system, but as inextricably linked to knowledge, history, and other social practices. Nevertheless, essentialist notions of language are at times strategically employed in order to facilitate intelligibility and to emphasize cultural distinctiveness.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50404 - Anthropology, ethnology
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Revista de Letras Norte@mentos
ISSN
1983-8018
e-ISSN
1983-8018
Volume of the periodical
18
Issue of the periodical within the volume
54
Country of publishing house
BR - BRAZIL
Number of pages
22
Pages from-to
165-186
UT code for WoS article
001574242200010
EID of the result in the Scopus database
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