Abstract
ABSTRACT The aim of this work is to present an overview of the themes discussed in the field of Language Policy and Planning over the last twenty-one years (1990-2010) in Brazil, comparing the alignment of Brazilian research with the international scenario. To that end, expanded notions of language policy were adopted (COOPER, 1989; SHIFFMAN, 1996, 2006; SPOLSKY, 2004, 2009, 2012) and a survey was carried out in order to find the number of articles in the field in a sample of abstracts from Brazilian academic journals of Linguistics and Literature. The main themes identified in this study were: educational language policies, language planning, languages in contact, diffusion of the Portuguese language, and (meta)linguistic knowledge and language policies. On the one hand, these themes show a convergence between Brazilian and international trends; however, on the other, they show a specific thematic trend in the former, that is, the interest in the constitution of (meta)linguistic knowledge in relation to language policy.
Highlights
Language Policy and Planning2 is a recent discipline, which began in the 1960s (RICENTO, 2000; SPOLSKY, 2012; JOHNSON, 2013)
In Brazil, discussions on this field have already been the theme of several scientific events, such as the First Symposium of Glottopolitics and Regional Integration, promoted by the Graduate Program in Linguistics (PROLING) of the Federal University of Paraíba (UFPB) and by the Center of Studies in Language Policy and Education (NEPEL), held in 2015, as well as the VIII International Meeting of Language Policy Researchers, promoted by the Association of Universities of Montevideo (AUGM), held in 2017, among others
While the former presents a portrait of Applied Linguistics from 1996 to 2006 in the national and international scenarios, we focus only on research in LPP
Summary
Language Policy and Planning (hereafter LPP) is a recent discipline, which began in the 1960s (RICENTO, 2000; SPOLSKY, 2012; JOHNSON, 2013). It is worth mentioning that studies with this perspective of analysis have already been developed in Applied Linguistics and LPP, as is the case of the research by Menezes, Silva & Gomes (2009) and Passoni and Gomes (2016) While the former presents a portrait of Applied Linguistics from 1996 to 2006 in the national and international scenarios, we focus only on research in LPP. While the latter presents a mapping of theses and dissertations relating to language policy and teaching of foreign languages in Brazil from 2007 to 2011, we intend to show a mapping of the most recurrent research themes in a broader period of time (1990-2010), focusing on the abstracts of Brazilian scientific articles. This article is divided into three parts in addition to the initial and final considerations: in the first part, we discuss some notions of language policy; in the second part, we describe the methodological path taken to carry out this research, from the choice of Linguistics and Literature journals to the analysis of abstracts; and in the third part, we examine the corpus in order to identify the most recurrent themes in the research conducted in Brazil
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