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Knowing the scope of television for the dissemination of information, entertainment, and ideologies, this paper investigates the characterization of two characters' speech features from two Brazilian soap opera works: O Sétimo Guardião (2018), and Verdades Secretas (2015), seeking to recognize if the representation can lead viewers to a negative evaluation of characters based on how they express themselves by speaking, or if the representation legitimizes speech as mark of identity. We based the analyses on the Sociolinguistics studies, especially those of Labov (2008), Pagotto (2004), Bortoni-Ricardo (2009, 2011), and Bagno (2015). By using qualitative research following the method proposed by Bortoni-Ricardo (2009), in which the analyzed speakers are allocated in points of imaginary lines according to their linguistic expression, especially in the "urbanization continuum", we could conclude that one of the television narratives brings caricature traits, providing opportunities for negative evaluations, whereas the other brings out representation since it reliably shows the represented identities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Linguistic variations represent the different ways of speaking the language of a nation, considering that the standard language of a country is not homogeneous, constituting an inherent characteristic of all natural languages, reflecting the sociocultural and contextual differences during speech production by an individual. The contrast experienced by such differences brings with it structural problems such as linguistic prejudice that directly affects people's shares. In view of this, this research aimed to analyze linguistic prejudice in the school environment in the light of linguistic variations experienced in the daily school life of 2nd year high school classes. This study was configured as a descriptive quantitative and qualitative research, carried out with the 2nd year of high school classes at the Odorico Melo Reference School in the city of Parnamirim - PE, using the questionnaire as a data collection instrument, analyzed by the the inductive method. From this perspective, the results showed linguistic variations as a natural language process and that students can understand them, confirming their importance for the development of their communicative skills in the classroom, both in written and oral language, to the detriment of prejudice linguistic declared visible and inherent in the day-to-day in its school environment, as well as the mechanical teaching of the Portuguese language in a retrograde character. Despite the recognition of linguistic variation, students consider their level of speech assertive, but admit to living in a diverse space, marked by the context of sectorial and socioeconomic variations, which are closely linked to prejudiced attitudes that can impact their school development, triggering a series of problems. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article examines verbal violence in comments produced on the social media Facebook, on the page “Falei errado? O pobrema não é meu, é seu” (Did I say it wrong? The problem is not mine, it’s yours), after a publication with the subtitles “Não é engraçado, #ÉPreconceitoLinguístico” (It’s not funny, #ItsLinguisticPrejudice). The objective is to verify the discursive roles and places, the stereotyped sociopsychological statutes and the political-ideological positions that are in the discursive practices of the subject-users, considering that the controversy is driven by a scientific observation – in particular, of Sociolinguistics – according to which disapproval, disgust or disrespect for less prestige linguistic varieties are configured as linguistic prejudice and intolerance. To this end, the foundation was given in an interdisciplinary theoretical-methodological framework that encompasses studies on the origins of Brazilian Portuguese (BAXTER; LUCCHESI, 1997; NARO; SCHERRE, 2003), the notion of discursive polemics (AMOSSY, 2011), the notions of inter-understanding and discursive space (MAINGUENEAU, 1997, 2008, 2015) and, finally, the category of emic space (BAUMAN, 2001). The analyzes reveal that many speeches reflect a desire to annihilate and erase social identities and that, even in contexts of discussion on linguistic prejudice, verbal violence does not focus only on this theme, but encompasses everything that, in a certain way, represents social minorities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, we present a discussion about being bilingual/multilingual since childhood and the challenges encountered, which need to be faced and overcome, so that the family does not give up on its purpose, mainly when it comes to a language of immigration (Deitsch/Deutsch ) and the German in contact with the Portuguese. We bring a theoretical discussion based on the features of bilingual/multilingual from Mackey (1972), King and Mackey (2007) and Grosjean (2010) and on the types of child bilingualism by Romaine (1995). Among the challenges that can be found in a multilingual education (BROCH, 2014), we emphasize three of them: i) the myth that children, who learn more than one language prematurely, will have difficulties in school; ii) linguistic prejudice, the result of an education centered on the belief in the need for linguistic homogeneity and iii) the lack of a linguistic policy sensitive to multilingualism, both of minority languages and of languages called "modern". [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, we present the results of a research carried out with bilingual individuals who speak a so called "minority" language as one of their mother tongues. The research participants answered a questionnaire or an interview about their linguistic practices at home, which aimed to collect data on the family linguistic policies (KING; FOGLE; LOGANTERRY, 2008; SPOLSKY, 2012) established in this context and the ideologies that govern these practices. We assume that the linguistic ideologies (SPOLSKY, 2004; 2012) of these speakers could be under influence of myths and concepts that give the minority language a negative status, surrounded by linguistic prejudice. We present here results referring to five participants of the research, speakers of minority languages, which were analyzed in a qualitative way to unveil their linguistic ideologies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Language is involved in the processes of identity and alterity construction. Therefore, it can also be used to differentiate negatively the other from processes of judgment of the speech of others. This article presents some considerations regarding linguistic prejudice against Asian immigrants and their descendants in Brazil. It is a work of historical bias and that uses French discursive semiotics to analyze journalistic texts published from the second half of the twentieth century until the present day. From the examination of the reports, the constant sanction on the misuse that Japanese immigrants and students of Asian origin do of the Portuguese language was observed, in spite of the equally constant prominence of the qualities of workers and students that they carry in these speeches. Thus, even with a currently positive image for Brazilian society, linguistic prejudice remains against individuals of Asian origin in the country. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

After discussing the meaning of the word politics, this paper shows that there are four possible approaches to the issue of the relationships between language, discourse and politics: a) the intrinsic political nature of language; b) the relations of power between discourses and their political dimension; c) the relations of power between languages and the political dimension of their usage and; d) linguistic policies. This paper addresses only the first two of these items. Languages have an intrinsically political nature because they subject their speakers to their order. The acts of silencing operationalized in discourse manifest a relation of power. The spread of discourses in the social space is also subject to the order of power. The use of language may be the space of pertinence, but is also that of exclusion, separation and even the elimination of the other. Therefore, language is not a neutral communication tool, but it is permeated by politics, by power. Because of the dislocations that it produces, literature is a form of swindling language, unveiling the powers that are imprinted on it. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]