This article aims to draw an analysis, based on an archaeogenealogical perspective, of the male homosexuality in the Colonial Period of Brazil and the relations with the Metropolitan Christin moral code, according to the hypothesus of a hierarchy which is based on the separation between masculinity and feminization in trade and affective the so-called 'sexual abominable sin'. Party, initially, the file greco-latin, questioning him in his manhood scanson between an activity and a negative passivity. Thereafter, analyzes the discourse on male homosexuality in Brazil, choosing a corpus of documents and discourses of the Visitations and processes of the Court of the Inquisition in Brazil, noting the stay in the same hierarchy activity and passivity, often with discourses economic, ethnic, cultural and age.

The constitution of the urban discourse is herein understood taking into account the central ideas of the place of memory and the foundational discourses. The discussion is focused on the two notions related to the maintenance effect, which is the product of the memory and the return of the discourses that sustain the present discourses. The relation between places of memory and foundational discourses is demonstrated by the analysis of two texts that comprise the discourse concerning Erico Verissimo in Cruz Alta, Rio Grande do Sul State, Brazil.

Although researches on lingua franca are at early stages in Brazil, there has been a growing interest on this perspective. In this paper, we aim at discussing the legitimate doubts raised by those engaged in the discussion of the distinctions between English as a foreign language and English as lingua franca. We stress the challenges for teacher education courses and present some parameters to be taken into account in teacher education courses including such status.

Rhotacism is a shifting process among liquid, lateral and rhotic consonants, in the environment of complex onset as, for example, the substitution of plan for pran. It is an ancient and productive phenomenon in the Portuguese language, traditionally described as the categorical change of a lateral sound by a rhotic one. However, the results of an acoustic analysis of the phenomenon shows that there are three variants in its usage and not just the tap one, besides the occurrence of lateralized rhotics, intermediate sounds to lateralized and rhotic ones, already observed in other languages. The analysis of the phonetic details relevant to the realizationt of rhotacism, provided by the acoustic analysis of their occurrence, proves its gradient pattern.

Parting from the epistemological frame of Bronckart's (2003) sociodiscursive interactionism, on the theorethical-methodological supports for the teaching of mother tongue of Schneuwly and Dolz (2004) and the dialogical rewriting' conceptions (GONÇALVES; BAZARIM, 2009), we investigate how two collections of didactic books recommended by Ministry of Education and Culture-MEC- approach textual gender's rewriting in Primary Education cycle II. For its fulfillment, we will uphold on Bronckart's (2003) textual leafy, which contemplates textual infrastructure, discursive and linguistic-discursive components of action. The Português – uma proposta para o letramento collection - focus discursive capacities in detriment of actions and linguistic-discursive capabilities, besides the writing/rewriting's proposals don't belong to the same textual genre inside a thematic unity. The Linguagens no Século XXI’s collection, in contrast, focus the three analyzed language’s capabilities, and, especially, favors the writing/rewriting inside the same textual genre inside the unity of the Didactic Book.