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The Portuguese Language Continuum in Africa and BrazilEdited by Laura Álvarez López, Perpétua Gonçalves and Juanito Ornelas de Avelar
[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics 20] 2018
► pp. 1–16
Introduction
Laura Álvarez López | Stockholm University
Juanito Ornelas de Avelar | University of Campinas
This chapter introduces the idea of a continuum of Portuguese in Africa and Brazil. It further identifies the common research
questions, presenting earlier studies and discussing current gaps in research about Brazilian and African varieties of
Portuguese. A detailed overview of the book explains how each of the contributions works towards informing these questions.
Finally, in the final remarks, the authors suggest further research questions, and put forward the necessity of developing a
corpus that includes a diversity of points along the Afro-Brazilian continuum, i.e. datasets with the potential to inspire
comprehensive descriptions as well as fine-tuned analyses of the linguistic properties and sociohistorical settings of the
continuum. Moreover, this introduction signals the need for supplementary research on exactly which linguistic groups have
cohabited where, and in which conditions, and for further exploration of the weight that each of the languages in a particular
setting has had in the competition created by each contact situation.
Keywords: Afro-Brazilian continuum, Portuguese, Africa, Brazil
Article outline
- The idea of a continuum of Portuguese in Africa and Brazil
- Earlier studies
- Overview of the book
- Final remarks
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Notes -
References
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Published online: 22 November 2018
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