The concept of community of practice in the context of a selected group of speakers of a Fala de Xálima The purpose of this paper is to study the current sociolinguistic situation of the language community of Xálima through the prism of the theory of community of practice. We define the community of practice as an aggregate of people who come together around mutual engagement in an endeavour of preserving and promoting their vernacular language. The empirical material will be a series of anthropological observations and comments on the semi-directed interviews, made in situ by the authors, in which we will analyse the efforts towards the orthographic standardization and their possible effects. We aim to demonstrate that the methodological principle of community of practice is applicable and suitable to shed new light over sociolinguistic minorized contexts, especially when conducting research in the field of the so-called third wave of sociolinguistics.

É com enorme satisfação que apresentamos aos leitores o terceiro volume da edição anual científica de Cracóvia Studia Iberystyczne, publicado pelo Instituto de Filologias Românicas da Universidade Jagelónica, contendo obras dedicadas à literatura, linguística, estudos de tradução e cultura no âmbito da língua portuguesa. Procurando dar continuidade à iniciativa levada a cabo em edições anteriores entituladas Almanach portugalskojęzyczny (nr 4/2005) e Portugalia, Brazylia, Afryka. Wokół Vergílio Ferreiry (nr 9/2010) no sentido de aproximar uma variedade de temáticas lusófonas, foram recolhidos neste volume estudos que refletem o resultado da cooperação e reflexão científica de vários pesquisadores de centros universitários a nível europeu e mundial, nomeadamente do Brasil,

The present study is dedicated to the description of one of the areas in which an asymmetry in the linguistic choices available to Cape Verdeans is easily noticed, that is, the national education system. Firstly, we will trace the socio-historical context of the use of Portuguese and Cape Verdean in higher education, including some information about basic and secondary education. In the second part, we will present the results of the research carried out in 2016/2017 on the island of São Vicente, in Cape Verde, referring to the opinions of university students and the teaching staff regarding, for instance, the mandatory use of the Portuguese language in the school environment or the scarce presence of the national language in the formal higher education. For the purposes of this study, we chose 60 interviews: 37 with students from the University of Mindelo (UM), 15 with students from the University of Cape Verde (Uni-CV) and 8 with university professors, specialists in different scientific areas (Uni-CV, UM). The methodology applied for its description will be qualitative, with summarizing quantitative elements. The final observations, due to the small number of participants, cannot be considered as representative of the opinion of the entire population of São Vicente island, but they can, however, constitute a starting point for more comprehensive studies.

In this paper we aim to put a few comments on the first attempts of standardization of the spelling of numerous words of Portuguese origin in Tetum-Prasa, followed by the literacy campaign organized by Fretilin after which, due to its growing importance as a language of resistance and writing, was elaborated the current phonemic model. The corpus of examples that we analyse is based on texts of scientific nature written in Tetum-Prasa.