O portuñol no ir e vir dos sujeitos fronterizos de Aceguá BR/UY: línguas e identidades sob o viés de uma Linguística Aplicada Indisciplinar

Abstract

This Master’s Dissertation aims to present how the four participants to this investigation, fronterizos from the Aceguá city BR/UY constitute their identities performatively through the portuñol, paying attention to this language crossings in the daily life of them each one. The investigation is based on the Undisciplined Applied Linguistics (MOITA LOPES, 2006), approaching the language as a social practice and, this way, for study it is necessary to reflect about the society and the culture of which is a part. Moreover, the discursive practices are not seen as neutral, so, they start from language ideology (SILVERSTEIN, 1979), (WOOLARD, 1998), (IRVINE and GAL, 2000), (KROSKRITY, 2004), (MOITA LOPES, 2013) that, consequently, are permeated by power relations (BLOMMAERT, 2014). The methodology was from narratives, understanding them how a process closely linked to the identity construction (SANTOS, 2013) and the analysis were done through the analytical clues proposed by Wortham (2001). The research emphasize how the frontier is a mobility space in several aspects and that the portuñol, although considered a lesser prestige language by some participants, is in frontier everyday life, often becoming a linguistic transgression when it crosses the limits imposed by certain linguistic ideologies.