De Flor do Lácio à Língua Global: uma análise discursiva das relações de poder nas políticas linguísticas para a promoção, a difusão e a projeção do português da Comunidade dos Países de Língua Portuguesa (CPLP)

Abstract

In the last decade we may realize a series of policies to expand the presence of the Portuguese language in the world, such as the inauguration of Brazil TV International (2010), under the Brazilian government or the entry into force of the agreement spelling 1990 (2009) within the Community of Portuguese Language Countries (CPLP), an international organization composed of all the Portuguese speaking countries. Against this backdrop, this research intends to contribute to understanding the role of language policies in the configuration of which is the expansion of Portuguese in the contemporary world. For this, we start with the premise that all discourse is polemic by the principle of constitutive interincomprehension (MAINGUENEAU, 2008 [1984]), and that all political-legal-normative text aims to overcome this polemic and construct a meaning unique. This theoretical-methodological way, leads us to question the discursive processes that construct the search for univocality to overcome the polemic in language policy documents for the expansion of Portuguese? What constraints have been emphasized? How the enunciator is presented on behalf of univocality? We believe that finding answers to these questions lead us to discuss power relations that underpin these language policies of the Portuguese expansion in the last decade. To develop our research, we selected as corpora of analysis, declarations and resolutions of the Conference of Heads of State and Heads of Government and Council of Ministers of the CPLP on the dissemination and promotion of Portuguese, because of political and symbolic powers, that this organization represents in relation to the matter. Thus, we identified four positions/enunciators faces, the patriotic-boastful, the defender, the apprehensive and idealistic-reliever, which together comprise a enunciator, which we call "super" because of its interdiscursives memory and competence and its specific way of enunciating, that leverage the imperative power of its statements. In the discursive sequences analyzed we can see that (super) enunciator in search of adhesion of the coenunciator articulates alliances (Portuguese common language, civil society) and oppositions (cultural diversity of countries, the English language) to construct an apparent linguistic homogeneity to overcome the heterogeneity of the CPLP. Thereby, the polemics are silenced and we can see a construction process of a new meaning of Portuguese, homogenized, as opposed to other process already being of grammatization and heterogenezation of nationals Portugueses languages