Translinguando espaço? Discursos metalinguísticos de jovens moçambicanos sobre `languaging´

Reite, Torun

doi:10.14393/dl27-v10n4a2016-5

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“…Accounts of parents choosing Portuguese to communicate with their children as an educational measure in Maputo province has been attested to earlier (see Reite, 2016). This practice dates back to the colonial period but was restricted to a very limited number of ‘assimilados’ [assimilated] (Honwana, 2010).…”

Section: The ‘Bairro’ — Classification Struggles and The Crafting Of mentioning

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From racial to linguistic social divisions: Coloniality in contemporary Maputo

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2021

Journal of Sociolinguistics

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Inspired by Bourdieu's work, this study draws on multidisciplinary datasets to unravel the role of language and symbolic power for retaining social hierarchies and crafting ‘distinctive’ selves in postcolonial times. Showcasing Mozambique's capital city of Maputo, the study relies on censuses from the period 1980 to 2017, historical data, interviews and metadiscursive reflection to problematize how education can serve as an instrument to effectively inscribe a certain social order in people's minds and bodies that can lead to an unconscious acceptance of social differences and hierarchies, to ‘a sense of one's place’. Probing into complex temporal and spatial co‐presences, the paper highlights the role that education has played in promoting ideas central to the divisive dynamics of Portuguese and how social distinctions that were obviously more overtly racial in colonial times have become more covert and have found more fine‐grained linguistic expression and perpetuate conditions of coloniality in contemporaneity.

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