Social identity and language ideology: challenging hegemonic visions of English in Brazil

Autores/as

  • Joel Austin Windle UFF e Monash University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22409/gragoata.v22i42.33477

Palabras clave:

Language ideology. Migration. Racial identity. English as an additional language. Auto-ethnography.

Resumen

This paper seeks to investigate the social identities connected to English in Brazil by connecting these to linguistic ideologies, and reflecting on how they may be challenged. It is based on first-person narration of “critical moments” from the perspective of an English language “native speaker” migrant to Brazil. The reflections identify how race is intimately connected to the “native speaker” category, theorised through the notions of “racial acceptability” and “racial capital”, drawing on a Bourdieusian theoretical framework. The article concludes with examples of challenges to the “native speaker” model in the hybrid linguistic practices of Brazilian youth.

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.22409/gragoata.2017n42a894

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Original in English.

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Biografía del autor/a

Joel Austin Windle, UFF e Monash University

Doutor em Educação em cotutela pelas Universidades de Melbourne e Bourgogne. Professor do Departamento de Letras Estrangeiras Modernas da Universidade Federal Fluminense. Tem experiência no estudo de diversidade cultural, ensino/aprendizagem de línguas, novos letramentos e sociologia da educação. Coordena o Núcleo de Estudos Críticos em Linguagens, Educação e Sociedade (NECLES).

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Publicado

2017-07-13

Cómo citar

Windle, J. A. (2017). Social identity and language ideology: challenging hegemonic visions of English in Brazil. Gragoatá, 22(42), 370-392. https://doi.org/10.22409/gragoata.v22i42.33477