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Shulist, Sarah – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2022
This paper uses the themes of language rights, language choice, and language risk to consider linguistic insecurity in the Northwest Amazon (Upper Negro river) region of Brazil. Because the region is home to a large number of languages (c. two dozen), the idea of preserving this diversity is a popular theme in discourses about language in the…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Civil Rights, Native Language, American Indian Languages
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Makoni, Sinfree Bullock; Severo, Cristine – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2015
A vast amount of literature addresses issues surrounding English and French in colonial and post-colonial communities. However, relative to the spread of English and French language ideology, a limited amount of literature exists on Lusitanization (i.e. the spread of Portuguese colonial ideology by Portugal during colonialism and the role of…
Descriptors: Language Role, Portuguese, Foreign Policy, Foreign Countries