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In order to unify the two official orthographies for Portuguese (one adopted by Brazil and the other by the other Portuguese-speaking countries), an orthographic agreement has been signed by the states of the Community of Portuguese-Speaking Countries (CPSC). After outlining the history of Portuguese orthography and discussing the reasons for this split, this paper argues against the main criticisms directed towards the agreement, both in Brazil and in Portugal. This paper shows that the agreement is not exactly linguistic, but instead political; therefore it must be analyzed and evaluated politically. Such an analysis shows that the agreement is intended to demonstrate the essential unity of the CPSC. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper we presented a qualitative analysis of institutional conversations performed during two classes of Portuguese as a second language, basing on Etnometodological Conversation Analysis. We tried to describe the acts of two teachers which employ different strategies to correct mistakes made by students without breaking topic flow, trying to verify how this interfere in interaction dynamics. We observed that, regardless the strategy employed by teacher in order to correct students mistakes, remains the asymmetry between teacher and students. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]