The Afro-Brazilian community Kalunga: Linguistic and sociohistorical perspectives
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Ana Paulla Braga Mattos
Abstract
This study analyzes the variety of Portuguese spoken in Kalunga, an Afro-Brazilian community located in the state of Goias, Brazil. It investigates the sociohistorical background of this community and the linguistic situation that we encounter in Kalunga today. Based on a corpus of recordings of spoken language, it describes features of the vernacular of the Kalunga community and provides an account of the sociolinguistic and sociohistorical situation of the Kalunga communities. The data show that Kalunga Portuguese shares many linguistic and sociohistorical features with other Afro-Brazilian varieties. These are marginalized varieties socially and linguistically far removed from the so-called Standard Brazilian Portuguese varieties. This study thus contributes to the linguistic and cultural documentation of the Kalunga community of Goias in particular, and to the studies on Brazilian Portuguese varieties and language contact in general.
Abstract
This study analyzes the variety of Portuguese spoken in Kalunga, an Afro-Brazilian community located in the state of Goias, Brazil. It investigates the sociohistorical background of this community and the linguistic situation that we encounter in Kalunga today. Based on a corpus of recordings of spoken language, it describes features of the vernacular of the Kalunga community and provides an account of the sociolinguistic and sociohistorical situation of the Kalunga communities. The data show that Kalunga Portuguese shares many linguistic and sociohistorical features with other Afro-Brazilian varieties. These are marginalized varieties socially and linguistically far removed from the so-called Standard Brazilian Portuguese varieties. This study thus contributes to the linguistic and cultural documentation of the Kalunga community of Goias in particular, and to the studies on Brazilian Portuguese varieties and language contact in general.
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter I
- Contents V
- Preface VII
- Colonialism and new language varieties in the Americas: An introduction 1
- Pero – Champion of Hispanization? 17
- A Mesoamerican perspective on contactinduced change in numeral classification 55
- Secondary derivation in the Michif verb: Beyond the traditional Algonquian template 81
- Social conditioning for the transmission of adstrate features in contact varieties of Spanish in the Central Andes 181
- The Afro-Brazilian community Kalunga: Linguistic and sociohistorical perspectives 207
- Hispanicization in the Welsh settlement of Chubut Province, Argentina 237
- Complex patterns of variety perception in the Eastern Caribbean 269
- The contested role of colonial language ideologies in multilingual Belize 291
- Index of Authors 317
- Index of Languages 322
- Index of Subjects 324
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter I
- Contents V
- Preface VII
- Colonialism and new language varieties in the Americas: An introduction 1
- Pero – Champion of Hispanization? 17
- A Mesoamerican perspective on contactinduced change in numeral classification 55
- Secondary derivation in the Michif verb: Beyond the traditional Algonquian template 81
- Social conditioning for the transmission of adstrate features in contact varieties of Spanish in the Central Andes 181
- The Afro-Brazilian community Kalunga: Linguistic and sociohistorical perspectives 207
- Hispanicization in the Welsh settlement of Chubut Province, Argentina 237
- Complex patterns of variety perception in the Eastern Caribbean 269
- The contested role of colonial language ideologies in multilingual Belize 291
- Index of Authors 317
- Index of Languages 322
- Index of Subjects 324
