2024-04-232024-04-232024-04-232023-11-30https://repositorio.ifal.edu.br/handle/123456789/519Based on contributions from Linguistic Anthropology and contemporary Applied Linguistics, the present work aims to critically interpret linguistic ideologies (Gal, 2019, 2023; Irvine; Gal, 2000; Pinto, 2013, 2018; Moita-Lopes, 2013) mobilized in online public controversies surrounding the journalistic article “There are Portuguese children who only speak 'Brazilian'”, published by the Portuguese newspaper Diário de Notícias, in November 2021. To this end, we carried out a digital ethnography (Blommaert, 2010; Pinto et al. , 2022) of a non-participant nature, carried out between June and October 2023, on the vehicle's page on the social network Facebook. The data produced in the ethnographic work were analyzed based on the notion of “indexical clues”, proposed by Wortham (2001), in order to explore the pragmatic-metapragmatic nexus, that is, the semiotic link between the use of certain linguistic items in context and broader social, cultural and ideological processes. In general terms, the analysis work allowed us to conclude the intense circulation of linguistic ideologies, that is, beliefs, rationalizations and affections about languages and their uses, which project colonial-based racial hierarchies, which we call “colonial linguistic ideologies”. These ideologies, among other things, produce effects of erasure, inferiorization and derogation of languages, cultures and identities of Brazilian peoples due to Portuguese superiority, evoking diffuse discourses about colonial violence. Furthermore, this research adds to growing efforts, in different areas of knowledge, in order to recognize the constitutive dimension of digital social media platforms in the production of political subjectivities and ideological disputes regarding gender, race and sexuality (Blommaert, 2020; Maly, 2023; Silva, 2019a; 2019b; 2020a; 2020b), as demonstrated by the complex logics of online/offline violence and the sociolinguistic hierarchies they project (Borba; Silva, 2020; Pinto et al., 2022).Acesso AbertoInteração digitalComentários onlineIdeologias linguísticasIndexicalidadePistas indexicaisDigital interactionOnline commentsLinguistic ideologiesIndexicalityIndexical rangesTrabalho de Conclusão de CursoLINGUISTICA, LETRAS E ARTES