In this work, we attempt to point some aspects of the politics of identities and of representation around the figure of the informer, in studies done starting from the bases of data of VARSUL (Urban Linguistic Variation in the South Area of Brazil) and of ALERS (Linguistic-Etnographic Atlas of the South Area of Brazil). In the first database, the theoretical and methodological assumptions are of the quantitative sociolinguistics while, in the second database, the theoretical and methodological assumptions are of the monodimensional geolinguistics. Our theoretical base is constituted mainly by of the studies of Rajagopalan (1998; 2003), Hall (1996; 2003) and Bauman (2000; 1997; 1998). Thereby, it was possible to observe as the language and the informer are representated.
politics of identities; politics of representation; informer; linguistic variation
