English identity and Manguebeat in Brazil

Bibliographic Data

ID2293652
AuthorsEduardo H Diniz De Figueiredo (0000-0001-6850-0122, Departmento Acadêmico de Linguagem, Tecnologia Educação e Ciência; Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Santa Catarina Av. Mauro Ramos 950 – Centro; Florianópolis SC CEP: 88020–300 Brazil, corresponding author)
Year2015
Volume34
Issue3
Pages456-470
Publication date2015-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueWorld Englishes (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0883-2919 • E-ISSN: 1467-971X
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/weng.12152
OpenAlexW2164761063
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited30

This study is an analysis of how English is conceptualized in Brazil's Manguebeat-a cultural movement that came to prominence in the 1990s and that became one of the most influential musical styles in the country ever since. The use of English in the manifesto that first presented Manguebeat and in two of the albums that epitomize the movement is examined through text mapping in combination with the discourse analysis theory put forth by Gee (2011). The results show that English in Manguebeat is positioned as a language that does not belong exclusively to an Inner Circle country. They also demonstrate how English influences cultural expression from the periphery of Brazil, positioning it as a mobile resource that can be deployed and recontextualized in the Brazilian context

Aesthetics · Art · Context (archaeology · Identity (music · Linguistics · Literature · Manifesto · Movement (music · Musical · Political science · Sociology · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Gender Studies · History · Law · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Multilingual Education and Policy · Philosophy

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