Teorias recorrentes em política e planejamento linguístico no Brasil

Abstract

The present work has the objective to identify the most frequent theories in Brazilian researches about language policy and planning in the last two decades (1990-2010), checking the alignment of researches conducted in the country in relation to the international trends. For that, we conducted a survey of the presence of articles on the subject in Brazilian academic journals of stratas A1, A2, B1 and B2 in the area of “Literature/Linguistics", listed in the WebQualis. We adopted the concept of Language Policy proposed by Spolsky (2004, 2009, 2012), who distinguishes it in three levels: policies practiced, perceived and declared, as denominated by Bonacina-Pugh (2012). With the sample, it was possible to identify through the analysis that there is a theoretical convergence of national researches in relation to the international ones, although the Brazilian production presents some peculiarities such as the dominance of discursive perspective. This paper aims to serve as a reference source for those interested in the state-of-art of the field of Language Policy and Planning in Brazil.