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Reinforcing the term proposed by Queixalós & Renault-Lescure (2000, pp. 9-11) in the title, this paper aims to establish relations between the colonial history of Brazil and the policies for language teaching in our country since the beginning of the colonization, in order to analyze traces of linguistic coloniality that are still present nowadays. Through an analysis of the history of language teaching in Brazil (BESSA FREIRE, 2018; GRILLI, 2018; LUCCHESI, 2017; SAVIANI, 2007; SILVA & FAVORITO, 2018), with a theoretical basis in decolonial thinking (FANON, 2008; SOUSA). SANTOS, 2019; VERONELLI, 2015), this paper delimits three effects of the coloniality of language. It is argued that these three effects were launched by the abyssal exclusion of non-white peoples during the colonial period, but they persist firmly in contemporary Brazil. Finally, language education is defended as an emancipating alternative to the civilizing monolingualism, as a way to welcome the multiplicity of knowledges and speeches of the Brazilian people. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper examines and compares, in the light of French Discourse Analysis, four life stories - collected through interviews - that were produced by Brazilian migrants that live illegally in France or in England. The main objective is to find out the discursive representations (of themselves, of the others, of the world) constructed by such individuals in their narratives and, at the same time, verify if and how their irregular situation interferes with their routine in the new country. In order to analyze and compare the four stories, some categories that integrate Maingueneau's Global Semantics (2005) were used: themes, vocabulary, enunciative deixis and enunciation mode. If the results reveal differences in the way of telling and evaluating the migratory experience, they also allow us to apprehend similarities, such as the primarily economic motivation to migrate, the difficulties (cultural, linguistic etc.) faced especially when arriving in the destination country and the precarious working conditions to which Brazilian migrants are submitted due to being in an irregular situation. Even though two of the interviewed subjetcts have preferred to be silent on this issue, their opinions can be implicitly identified. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Due to the increasing time Brazilians spend on social-networking websites, Interactional Sociolinguistics has become more interested on the interaction by the means of these new media, particularly Facebook - the most used social media website in Brazil. This paper aims at studying the configuration of impoliteness in an online text published on Facebook as well as verifying the role of lexis in the impoliteness research. In this article, we understand (im)politeness as an evaluative phenomenon by which behaviors are judged regarding their social adequacy, so they are normally labeled as: polite, impolite, rude, courteous, aggressive, excessively polite etc. Moreover, impoliteness, according to Culpeper and Hardaker (2017), is the technical term that designates behaviors that are generally judged as socially inadequate. In order to achieve our goal, this paper reports an exploratory study in which we analyze a text published on Facebook, observing the conventionalized impoliteness formulae and the lexical choices in the light of the textual-interactive perspective. The results show that the study of lexis contributes to the analysis of impoliteness by accounting for linguistic aspects, and that some features of the interaction on Facebook stimulate that impoliteness is more directed to interlocutors' ideological positions rather than their individual selves. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper deals with the relationship between social origin and educational outcomes. The objective is to verify if the increasing schooling of the Brazilian population was able to weaken the relationship between class of origin and achieved education. We use relative measures of schooling, which reflect the distribution of education among the population and/or its value in the labor market. The empirical analysis is guided by the comparison of the results of statistical models that use absolute and relative measures of schooling. Such models are applied to data collected in 1982, 1996 and 2014, for individuals aged between 28 and 41 years, thus forming three distinct cohorts. The data come from the Pnads - IBGE, and are analyzed using linear (OLS) and non-linear (logit-ordinal) models. The results support the hypothesis that, by adopting relative measures of education, we arrive at less optimistic estimates about the capacity of educational expansion to reduce the effect of class origin on the level of schooling achieved. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents a Critical Genre Analysis (CGA) of headlines and leads in six online hard news about a traffic accident involving two Brazilian citizens that summarize two socioeconomic classes: the dominant class (ACTOR 1) and the working class (ACTOR 2). Using the transitivity system of the Systemic Functional Grammar (HALLIDAY; MATTHIESSEN, 2004) and the taxonomy for representation of social events (FAIRCLOUGH, 2003), we aim to analyze how the media recontextualize the social event and its actors in order to create particular representations of them. The analysis reveals a set of grammatical and discursive mechanisms that produce the invisibilization of ACTOR 2 as a fatal victim of the accident, while mitigating the ACTOR 1's responsability for provoking the event. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper has the goal to contribute to critical reflections around the educational processes developed in Brazil. Therefore, this research conducts analysis that lead to the understanding that the brazilian educational system legitimates students' selectivity and failure by a meritocratic and excluding evaluation system, which relates to the capitalist society. Furthermore, we propose a favoring to the comprehension of the relations between structural problems involving poverty, racism, and job market segmentation and the country's educational disparity increase, making an articulation with the Covid-19 pandemic impacts to the brazilian population's scholarity. Finally, an eye is directed to the brazilian youths, with the intent of understanding the current pandemic context impacts to the scholar and professional paths of this population's segment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes photographs retrieved from family “files,” presented by Samuel Gomes in a YouTube video published on the channel Guardei no Armário. It discusses the relations of racialized subjects with the technological (im)possibilities established by the photographic production system, considering them beyond the video’s initial intention of celebration and remembrance. Based on Didi-Huberman’s reflections, these images are seen as testimonies, speech acts, that reveal much about the conditions in which they were produced. This revealed that the racism imbued in the devices contributes to consolidate a pattern of what is beautiful, subsidized in whiteness. The racist technological configuration becomes an obstacle to the construction of Black people’s memory, hindering the preservation of family records such as photographs by racialized subjects, erasing the traits and singularities of those who make up most of the Brazilian people. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper examines and compares, in the light of French Discourse Analysis, four life stories -- collected through interviews -- that were produced by Brazilian migrants that live illegally in France or in England. The main objective is to find out the discursive representations (of themselves, of the others, of the world) constructed by such individuals in their narratives and, at the same time, verify if and how their irregular situation interferes with their routine in the new country. In order to analyze and compare the four stories, some categories that integrate Maingueneau's Global Semantics (2005) were used: themes, vocabulary, enunciative deixis and enunciation mode. If the results reveal differences in the way of telling and evaluating the migratory experience, they also allow us to apprehend similarities, such as the primarily economic motivation to migrate, the difficulties (cultural, linguistic etc.) faced especially when arriving in the destination country and the precarious working conditions to which Brazilian migrants are submitted due to being in an irregular situation. Even though two of the interviewed subjetcts have preferred to be silent on this issue, their opinions can be implicitly identified. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents and analyzes elements, characteristics and main aspects of insurance and health plans, especially the issues of market that exists in this segment. In this regard, it addresses the characteristics of these contracts, the rights and duties of the participants in these consumer relations, including characteristics and aspects related to the supply chain and the final consumers of the services (around of the Brazilian population has such a contract). Working with legal and economic conceptions, this study not only analyzes the main problems that affect the sector, involving business issues, regulation, reasons that lead to the phenomenon of judicialization, but also the protection of consumers, including personality rights. And, complementing, it expresses considerations and suggestions aiming to contribute doctrinally to the possible solutions pointing to the objective of sustainability and improvement of the sector. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In 2019, the Chief Justice of the STF initiated a procedure to investigate alleged practices of disclosing fraudulent news and infractions committed against the Court, its members and their relatives. In the course of this secret Inquiry (no. 4,781), many unconstitutional decisions were enacted, censoring media outlets, restricting freedoms and procedural guarantees of Brazilian citizens, and materializing all sorts of judicial arbitrariness, always under the justification of safeguarding the constitutional order. In view of this situation, this paper intends to verify whether it is possible to establish a relationship between these institutional behaviors of the Brazilian Supreme Court and Giorgio Agamben's theory of the state of exception. For this purpose, the work carries out an initial bibliographic review and, afterwards, questions the constitutionality of the judicial decisions rendered by the Court. In the end, it is concluded that there is a characterization of some elements constituting the state of exception in the Brazilian reality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper discusses the constructs of L2 speech 'intelligibility' and 'comprehensibility' (MUNRO; DERWING, 2015), associates these constructs to the theory of Language as Complex Dynamic System and proposes modifications in the measurement of these constructs by investigating intelligibility in the oral productions of Haitians, learners of Portuguese as L2, judged by Brazilians. The study investigated 57 Brazilian participants, who were divided into 3 groups (monolinguals, L2 leaners of French and L2 learners of English). Three measurement possibilities were tested: percentage of correct words after an oral repetition task, Likert Scale and decision time. Our results have shown a complex relationship among the three measurements, verified through different responses in each group. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Within the French Discourse Analysis (AD) and Michel Foucault's approach to the concepts of truth and power, this paper analyzed Aécio Neves's inauguration speech when he was reelected as president of the Brazilian Social Democratic Party (PSDB), which took place in the 12th PSDB National Convention on July 5, 2015. The archeological, genealogical method in this study contributed to the description and interpretation of the speech. This corpus is relevant to understand the pathway built to Dilma Rousseff's impeachment because it materialized linguistic components that were disseminated by the hegemonic media, the justice, and social and technological players. Statements like 'fiscal pedaling, crisis, corruption', etc. served this purpose. Communication vehicles started to explore these elements daily and transform them into media sensationalism against Dilma and the Labor's Party (PT). Such statements were mentioned by ideological and political opponents of PT in the form of discursive and non-discursive practices, since these terms marked and/or demarcated the Brazilian population's daily lives, mainly inducing protests against the government on the streets or on social media. The keynote of Aécio's speech includes two opposing topics: he praised PSDB's management and negatively assessed Dilma's administration to defame and depreciate her. The analysis showed that Aécio gathered information to provoke Dilma's dismissal to replace her government for an ideologically different one. The term 'democracy' appears contradictorily in the speech: on one hand, Aécio reaffirms he fights for democracy, that is why he defends it; on the other hand, he actually uses it to later (corrupt)disrupt it. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper's goal is to demonstrate how rhetorical precepts were applied to catechetical dialogues composed in Portuguese South America. It correlates Jesuit statements about the participation of Native Brazilians in the production of translations into their languages (native speech still rustles in the dialogues) with the pedestrian style of the “dialogue" genre itself. The paper endeavors to show how such correlation produced the effect of “naturalness of savage speech," and also demonstrates the lack of application of artificial composition by the priests of the Society of Jesus. Lastly, we discuss how dialogue writing appropriates native speech only as a means to include in it the sacred truths of the Catholic faith, leaving to Native Brazilians the task of ascribing such truths to themselves through repetition and internalization, as a stunt double of the catechumen in the dialogues, as its perfect reflection. In the catechetical practice, though, such reflection is blurred, as it is impossible for the native to “act" as the mimetic model that represents him in absentia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The notion of what constitutes a career is interdisciplinary by nature, congregating views from an individual, organizations and society. Nevertheless, despite progress in discussions on the subject, recent studies have pointed towards the limitations of currently used theories, calling for greater interdisciplinarity (Arthur, 2008; Chudzikowski & Mayrhofer, 2011; Khapova & Arthur, 2011; Lawrence, 2011), since little evolution has occurred in this sense. In order to respond to the need for multidisciplinary research in career studies, this paper aims to present and illustrate the potential use of life histories by analyzing the influences and limits on seven Brazilian executives' career paths through this method. Results are presented in two broad categories of analysis: (a) contextual influences on careers involving changes in the Brazilian economic and organizational setting, increased competition and need to increase knowledge in face of globalization, mobility demand and gender discrimination; (b) life stages and career choices, including individual aspects of their trajectories, such as family values, choice of undergraduate courses, entering the labor market and parenthood. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]