POR UMA LINGUÍSTICA APLICADA ANTIRRACISTA, DESCOLONIAL E MILITANTE: Racismo e branquitude e seus efeitos sociais

Abstract

: In the field of Brazilian Applied Linguistics there are some researches (XXX, 2016b; FERREIRA, 2015; MUNIZ, 2016, 2020; NASCIMENTO, 2019, 2020; SOUZA, 2011, 2020) that mobilize the categories of language, identity and race in a nested way. In addition, in our area, we have had an increasingly decolonial turn (XXX, 2016a) that has sought “alternatives, without the purisms or fundamentalisms characteristic of coloniality, for the construction of decolonialities in the understanding of the world and social life” ( GUIMARAES; VESZ, 2019, p. 7-8). In this sense, this article argues in favor of an antirracist, decolonial and militant Applied Linguistics. To this end, I conduct a discursive-pragmatic analysis of the textual trajectory of speech acts related to black and white racial identities on Facebook in order to demonstrate the relationships between language, coloniality, whiteness and racism as well as the need for a decolonial perspective of language in LA . As theoretical-methodological contributions, I have based on linguistic research in the applied field that has focused on the relationships between language, racism and (un) colonialities (PINTO, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014a, 2018; MUNIZ; 2016; NASCIMENTO, 2019), the authors / authors of contemporary decolonial criticism (FANON, 2008; KILOMBA, 2019; MIGNOLO, 2006; QUIJANO, 2010) as well as in analytical categories from linguistic anthropology (BAUMAN & BRIGGS, 1990). I concluded that our linguistic practices are racialized and therefore language cannot do without being analyzed in its articulation with colonial processes and with the forms of subjectivity that participate (r) am in the construction of racial bodies and identities throughout the world-system -patriarcal-capitalist-colonial-modern (GROSFOGUEL, 2010). Keywords: Applied Linguistics Antirracist; Whiteness; decoloniality.