O lugar da língua portuguesa em Timor-Leste : poder, controle e acesso

• Ano de defesa: 2011
• Autor(a) principal: Freire, Everaldo José
• Orientador(a): Corrêa, Lêda Pires
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal de Sergipe
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Pós-Graduação em Letras
• País: BR
• Palavras-chave em Português: Política linguística; Discurso; Sociedade; Cognição; Timor-Leste
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Language policy; Discourse; Society; Cognition; East Timor
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CNPQ::LINGUISTICA, LETRAS E ARTES::LETRAS
• Link de acesso: https://ri.ufs.br/handle/riufs/5732

This thesis deals with language policies in East Timor, as a socio-discursive practice, guided by the categories of Power, Control and Access, proposed by van Dijk (2000) on his multidisciplinary theory of the ideology that form the basis of Critical Discourse Studies (van Dijk, 2008), from sociocognitive and interactional perspective, in an interface with Cultural Studies. One of the goals is to verify in which measure the language policies of East Timor translate the interests of the different social groups in the country. From a macro-social perspective, the goal is to study the communicative event of the officialization of Portuguese Language in East Timor, based on the text by Geoffrey Hull, presented August 2000 to the National Congress that argued the inclusion of Portuguese as co-official language with Tetun and forcefully criticized the choice of English and Indonesian. The Timorese elite, who predominantly uses Portuguese in formal situations or outside of the country, defined a language policy that reserved a privileged status for this language, using the Power, Control and Access to the institutions and the representative groups of this ruling class. This reality contributes to consolidate, in practice, the ideological belief in a homogeneous national identity, that is problematized in Cultural Studies, by the pedagogical and linear time, of the social cohesion of many as one . This social belief does not constitute, however, the complex narrative of the East Timorese nation, to which is added the performative time, or of inbetweeness, that is characterized by the addition of the beliefs/narratives of marginal groups, whose shared-living results in the supplementarity (which, in this proposal of analysis, represents Counterpower), that is, in the duplication of discourses, that do not pluralize, given the high degree of asymmetry between them, but that end up for modifying the social configuration of the nation.