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Voices in the shadows: Reflections on the Portuguese-Azorean American linguistic heritage
Título Evento
Heritage Languages Around the World 2 (HLAW2)
Ano (publicação definitiva)
2024
Língua
Inglês
País
Estados Unidos da América
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Abstract/Resumo
This study calls attention to the diversity of Portuguese as a heritage language label in southern
New England, focusing on the vanishing Azorean-American sociolinguistic heritage in the
Greater Boston area. The researchers critically reflect on the attitudes regarding Azorean-
American speech and ways in which such attitudes contribute, or not, to the survival of this
local way of expression. Through a collaborative sociolinguistic and ethnographic research, this
paper is based on the first author’s experience as a Portuguese teacher with a young heritage
learners of Azorean ancestry in one of the last high schools to offer Portuguese language study
in the Boston area, in addition to his experiences as a university lecturer, coupled with a second
author’s long-term contact with the well-established Portuguese community of Cambridge and
Somerville, Massachusetts.
The authors are interested in analyzing how this non-standard or “informal” variety (Carvalho,
1925; Pap, 1949; Cabral, 1985) has survived within “spatial, temporal, and ideological spaces of
sociolinguistic hybridity and diversity” (McCarty, 2014: 255), or “sociolinguistic borderlands”,
and how marginality affects the transmission of this variety, particularly at the level of young
heritage language learners of European Portuguese of Azorean ancestry, who seek to nurture
their ethnolinguistic identity by learning this language.
We thus analyze some of the conditions that continue to place the preservation of
Azorean-American sociolinguistic identity at risk,
Agradecimentos/Acknowledgements
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Palavras-chave
Portuguese as heritage language,marginalization,Cambridge & Somerville,sociolinguistics & ethnography,Portuguese Azorean,linguistic ideologies
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