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Rajagopalan, Kanavillil – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2008
The history of language planning in Brazil, the only Portuguese speaking country in South America, is shown to have been decisively influenced at every critical moment by prevailing geopolitical interests. Sharing borders with nine out of the 11 countries that, together with it, make up the continent, Brazil has always been attentive to perceived…
Descriptors: Language Planning, National Security, Diachronic Linguistics, Official Languages