LINGUIST List 21.2862
Fri Jul 09 2010
Diss: Anthro Ling/Socioling: López: 'A lingua de camões com Iemanjá...'
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1. Laura
Álvarez López,
A lingua de camões com Iemanjá: Forma e funções da linguage do candomblé.
Message 1: A lingua de camões com Iemanjá: Forma e funções da linguage do candomblé.
Date: 29-Jun-2010
From: Laura Álvarez López <lauraisp.su.se>
Subject: A lingua de camões com Iemanjá: Forma e funções da linguage do candomblé.
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Institution: Stockholm University
Program: Department of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies
Dissertation Status: Completed
Degree Date: 2004
Author: Laura Álvarez López
Dissertation Title: A lingua de camões com Iemanjá: Forma e funções da linguage do candomblé.
Dissertation URL: http://www.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?searchId=1&pid=diva2:195220
Linguistic Field(s):
Anthropological Linguistics
Sociolinguistics
Subject Language(s): Portuguese (por)
Dissertation Director:
Lars Fant
Jan Anward
Dissertation Abstract:
The present thesis addresses the relationship between the structure andsocial functions of language through the study of an Afro-BrazilianPortuguese speech community. The adopted methodological, analytical, andtheoretical standpoints have their origin in linguistic anthropology,social psychology of language and discourse analysis. A set of data wascollected during extensive fieldwork in Salvador (Brazil), and consists ofrecordings of informal conversations with and between followers ofCandomblé, an Afro-Brazilian religion.
Focusing on the communicative process in a specific communicative setting,the linguistic analyses illustrate the relationship between language andidentity by examining the way in which expressions of African originfunction as identity markers. In order to connect such Africanisms used byCandomblé followers in their everyday speech with the linguistic attitudesand ideologies found in Brazilian society throughout history, aninterdisciplinary approach was called for and factors that affect thespeech community's ethnolinguistic vitality were explored. Linguisticattitudes and ideologies that have influenced group vitality were analyzedin the socio-political context (or macro-context). At the same time, thepurpose was to understand communication within the sacred space ofCandomblé by examining issues such as changes in linguistic forms andfunctions in the communicative situation (or microcontext).
Apart from revealing patterns of communication in Candomblé communities,the results of the analyses show how linguistic changes such asre-Africanization are triggered by changes of attitudes in society. Thesechanges affect speakers' identities and language use within speech communities.
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