QUANDO SE FALA “BRASILEIRO”: O PRECONCEITO SOCIOLINGUÍSTICO SOFRIDO POR BRASILEIROS QUE VIVEM EM PORTUGAL.

Abstract

The present study aims to propose a reflection on the linguistic prejudice witnessed by Brazilians living in Portugal, as well as its consequences, helping to deconstruct the archaic view of the personification of the ideal speaker of the Portuguese language and the inferiorization of the native Brazilian speaker in the Portuguese territory. Thus, we conducted a sociolinguistic research, of qualitativ e interpretative nature, through a documentary corpus composed of posts collected in Facebook social network groups, characterized by communities of Brazilians living in Portugal, as well as journalistic articles on the subject. This paper brings an analyt ical proposal based on sociolinguistic and historical aspects relevant to the deconstruction of the mythology of disfavor associated with Brazilian Portuguese, using as theoretical contribution Labov (2008), Bagno (2002, 2007, 2008), Cezário and Votre (201 5), Faraco (2008), Tarallo (1986), Orlandi (2009), among others. Finally, we found that the myth of the Portuguese of Portugal occupying a place of greater prestige in relation to the language of Brazil is a common factor in most of the analyzed data, a fa ct arising from the colonizercolonized relationship. In this way, we seek to contribute to breaking the stigmas brought from past generations to current times. Besides working as a liberating instrument for Brazilians who feel inferior and said to be defe ctive/wrong when speaking in European territory.