24.1755, Diss: Socioling/Portuguese: Lopez: 'A l íngua de Camoês com Iemanjá...'

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Subject: 24.1755, Diss: Socioling/Portuguese: Lopez: 'A língua de Camoês com Iemanjá...'

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Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2013 16:02:39
From: Laura Lopez [laura.alvarez at ispla.su.se]
Subject: A língua de Camoês com Iemanjá: forma e funções da linguagem do candomblé

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Institution: Stockholm University 
Program: Department of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies 
Dissertation Status: Completed 
Degree Date: 2004 

Author: Laura Alvarez Lopez

Dissertation Title: A língua de Camoês com Iemanjá: forma e funções da
linguagem do candomblé 

Dissertation URL:  http://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:195220/FULLTEXT01

Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics

Subject Language(s): Portuguese (por)

Dissertation Director(s):
Jan Anward
Lars Fant

Dissertation Abstract:

The present thesis addresses the relationship between the structure 
and social functions of language through the study of an Afro-Brazilian 
Portuguese speech community. The adopted methodological, 
analytical, and theoretical standpoints have their origin in linguistic 
anthropology, social psychology of language and discourse analysis. A 
set of data was collected during extensive fieldwork in Salvador 
(Brazil), and consists of recordings of informal conversations with and 
between followers of Candomblé, an Afro-Brazilian religion.

Focusing on the communicative process in a specific communicative 
setting, the linguistic analyses illustrate the relationship between 
language and identity by examining theway in which expressions of 
African origin function as identity markers. In order to connect such 
Africanisms used by Candomblé followers in their everyday speech with 
the linguistic attitudes and ideologies found in Brazilian society 
throughout history, an interdisciplinary approach was called for and 
factors that affect the speech community’s ethnolinguistic vitality were 
explored. Linguistic attitudes and ideologies that have influenced group 
vitality were analyzed in the socio-political context (or macro-context). 
At the same time, the purpose was to understand communication within 
the sacred space of Candomblé by examining issues such as changes 
in linguistic forms and functions in the communicative situation (or 
microcontext).

Apart from revealing patterns of communication in Candomblé 
communities, the results of the analyses show how linguistic changes 
such as re-Africanization are triggered by changes of attitudes in 
society. These changes affect speakers’ identities and language use 
within speech communities.

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