A QUARTA ONDA: ATIVISMO SOCIOLINGUÍSTICO NO BRASIL.

Sociolinguistics is the study of the relationship between language and society. Despite the sensitivity of that interface, the organization of knowledge development is clustered in trends, or waves, that set and support a hegemony, which is maintained by the funding guidelines and the social bias that maintains the habitus. I show how education is the key to shifting agendas and recreate a path that reveals the emerging spaces of non-hegemonic agendas in Brazilian sociolinguistics. To do so, I follow the proposal of organization in waves and its resignification in the Brazilian research scenario, with special attention to the fourth wave, that of sociolinguistic activism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]