Globalization and the Imaginary Unit of Portuguese Language

Abstract

In this article, we analyze how the Portuguese language is meant in the textualizations of the websites of international events on Portuguese language, organized and promoted by the International Institute of the Portuguese Language (IILP). We use the theoretical and methodological perspective of discourse analysis as developed in the work of Pêcheux and Eni Orlandi. Anchored in this theoretical and methodological theory, we understand the language divided, fluid, in moving, constituted by the politic. From that understanding of language, we analyzed that is functioning, in the textualizations the websites of international events on the Portuguese language, the imagery of globalization that produces meaning effects that the Portuguese language is the same language in all countries that were colonized by Portugal. The senses that constitute this imaginary produces silencing of linguistic decolonization process that allowed Brazil and Portuguese colonization countries had their own language, different from the colonizer's language.