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ABSTRACT
The scholarly work, Speeches for the Formation of Linguistic Brazilianness: colonization,
literature and language (s) in Brazil (XVI-XIX) is a study done upon a descriptiveanalytical
bottom about the course and the ways in which the Lusitan conquest and
colonization implemented the expropriation and hiding of indigenous languages by imposing
the Portuguese Language as the sole source of communication between us, within a process
clearly marked by the fury of wars of conquest and colonization, by the violence of disrespect
for the Native American people and by the violent linguistic eurocentrism. The choice of this
object of study is warranted due to the recurrence of this theme, that is, the endless debate
about our linguistic identity. It is very frequent in our various cultural discourses, especially in
literature and sociology, the thematization of national characteristics as crucial, to literary and
sociological discourses, forming a interdiscursivity, that is, a hybrid discursive practice,
inherent to all social uses of language. To achieve our purpose we choose, as corpus analysis,
some sample texts, extracted from colonial works, written during our period of colonization,
more precisely between the mid-sixteenth century and the first decades of the nineteenth
century, when the political independence of Brazil from Portugal occurs, but not the end of
the religious-linguistic clashes. Upon this historical phase we will examine the scriptural
context of the Brazilian colonial period. Thus, we turn initially to the information of Jesuit
Father Manuel da Nóbrega and José de Anchieta, about the sixteenth century, a context
marked by wars and Jesuit settlements. For studies of the linguistic context of the seventeenth
century, we will use, especially, the writings of Father Antonio Vieira and Poet Gregorio de
Matos. With regard to the scriptural context of the eighteenth century, a period characterized
by the expulsion of the Jesuits and the prohibition, by the Marquis of Pombal, of the use of
indigenous languages, our analysis will be done through the reading Arcadian texts, especially
those by Basílio da Gama e Santa Rita Durão. Regarding the first two decades of the
nineteenth century, marked by the presence of D. Joao VI and the influx of several important
European scientists in Brazil, the linguistic remarks peculiar to this period will be observed
through the narratives of Germans Spix and Martius and Frenchman Jean-Baptiste Debret. In
this understanding, we consider Fairclough’s theoretical and methodological paths as of
paramount importance for our work. It is therefore through the proposed discourse analysis
proposed by Fairclough, the textually-oriented discourse analysis (TODA), that we proceed to
our analytical description of the speech-language identity in Brazil, written during the colonial
period. By way of Fairclough, we conceive such texts as constituters and builders of our
linguistic Brazilianness.
Keywords: Linguistics. Literature. Language´s colonization. Brazilianness.