O'Neill, P. orcid.org/0000-0002-9152-527X and Massini-Cagliari, G. (2019) Linguistic prejudice and discrimination in Brazilian Portuguese and beyond : suggestions and recommendations. Journal of Language and Discrimination, 3 (1). pp. 32-62. ISSN 2397-2637
Abstract
In this article we make a distinction between the prejudice and discrimination towards (a) different languages and their speakers and (b) different non-standard varieties of the same language and their speakers, and argue that while the discrimination and prejudice towards (a) have been denounced by international institutions and both national and international laws are in place to guarantee the rights of speakers of different languages, the same protection has not been afforded to speakers of non-standard varieties of a language. We examine a specific case of this type of linguistic prejudice in Brazil. We discuss the effectiveness of efforts of linguists to combat linguistic prejudice based on the principle of error correction (Labov 1982) and, drawing on work by Cameron (2012) and Bourdieu (1986), suggest that linguistic prejudice cannot be disentangled from other types of prejudice and that linguists need to have a much deeper understanding of and engagement with the values attached to linguistic forms. We conclude with a number of suggestions and recommendations in order to effectively combat linguistic prejudice.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2019 Equinox Publishing. This is an author-produced version of a paper subsequently published in Journal of Language and Discrimination. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | language; prejudice; discrimination; Brazil; civilisation; barbarism; error correction |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Arts and Humanities (Sheffield) > School of Languages and Cultures (Sheffield) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number British Academy 2017 RD3 |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 20 Jan 2021 12:11 |
Last Modified: | 18 Jul 2021 00:38 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Equinox Publishing |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1558/jld.37344 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:170049 |