Abstract
This paper attempts to dislocate the debate on Portuguese language teaching away from nature and towards politics. Thereunto, it argues that to think of linguistic ideologies, understood as lay and specialized rationalizations about language form and function is equivalent to embedding teaching in politics, inasmuch as these ideologies are invested with the political interests of the groups holding them. Empirically, the paper questions the monolingual ideologies informing the Parâmetros Curriculares Nacionais, or the federal curricula guidelines, and other discourses about the nation. It contrasts these ideologies with Fabian Severo’s poetry in Spanguese and his rationalizations. The paper also gauges attachments and frictions in the context of language-ideological discussions of students who participated in a trans-lingual proposal of Portuguese language teaching.
Keywords:
Trans-lingual Pedagogy; Spanguese; Language Ideologies