2023-03-022023-03-022012PINTO, Joana Plaza. Modernidade e diferença colonial nos discursos hegemônicos sobre língua no Brasil. Muitas Vozes, Ponta Grossa, v. 1, n. 2, p. 171-180, 2012. DOI: 10.5212/MuitasVozes.v.1i2.0001. Disponível em: https://revistas.uepg.br/index.php/muitasvozes/article/view/4866. Acesso em: 15 fev. 2023.e- 2238-7196http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/handle/ri/21986This paper discusses the contradictions between hegemonic discourses on language and identity practices in contemporary Brazil. To discuss this topic, I argue that speech acts have repeatedly built hegemonies on language in Brazil, mainly linguistic unity, written/oral hierarchy and linear correspondence language-writing-cognition. These hegemonies refer to three interpretive models of colonial modernity. Such models depend heavily on the modern conception of uniform and well defi ned identity which the world/modern system no longer supports. The contemporary identity practices support two contradictions of hegemonic discourses on language in Brazil. The fi rst contradiction is operated by changes in the world/modern/colonial system design; the second contradiction is operated by silent perseverance and anonymous modern design. The conclusion is a paradoxical one: the hegemonic discourses on language in Brazil, inherited from colonial modernity, currently face in contemporary identity practices forces opposed to its stabilization, while the colonial difference persists.porAcesso Abertohttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/LínguaRegime metadiscursivoModernidadeDiferença colonialPráticas identitáriasLanguageMetadiscursive regimeModernityColonial differenceIdentity practicesArtigo10.5212/MuitasVozes.v.1i2.0001