The Nature and Emergence of the Língua Geral Amazônica according to Mufwene’s Language Ecology Model

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ID21809080
AuthorsThomas Finbow (0000-0003-4803-6603, Hospital Universitário da Universidade de São Paulo, corresponding author)
Year2023
Volume19
Issue2
Pages75-112
Publication date2023-06-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueRevista do GEL (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1806-4906 • E-ISSN: 1984-591X
PublisherGrupo de Estudos Linguísticos do Estado de São Paulo (PUBLISHER • BR)
DOI10.21165/gel.v19i2.3414
OpenAlexW4380853064
LanguageEN
References cited14

This paper addresses two aspects of the Língua Geral Amazônica (LGA). First, we propose that Língua Geral as a technical term in Portuguese was inspired by administrative practices in Spain’s American colonies and that, given contemporary usage, the term should be understood functionally as any Tupi-Guarani variety broadly mutually comprehensible with the colonial Old Tupi, rather than as a structurally modified variety or the speech of a particular ethnic or social group, as has been claimed. We then briefly analyse two recent hypotheses that treat the emergence of LGA as creolisation (VIEIRA; ZANOLI; MÓDOLO, 2019; NOBRE, 2019). Next, we apply key notions of the Language Ecology creolisation model (MUFWENE, 2003, 2008) to the formation of LGA and suggest a periodization

Archaeology · Biology · Geography · Linguistics · Periodization · Portuguese · Sociology · Anthropology · Computer Science · History · Linguistic Studies and Language Acquisition · Linguistics and Education Research · Multilingual Education and Policy · Philosophy · Artificial Intelligence · Ecology

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