Imigração, língua de acolhimento e assimilação em Goiás

Abstract

This research reflects on the target language to the immigrants, in the Portuguese language in Goiás - Brasil, making a historiographic path through the formation of goiana society in the twentieth century (PALACÍN; MORAES, 2008). The study highlights the socio-linguistic assimilation with which different ethnic groups welcomed Portuguese due to need or affectivity (CAMBRIDGE, 2000). Regarding this point, Braggio’s (1992) studies direct the acquisition of language to the socio cultural reality; consequently, we make referential descriptions about immigration in Goiás. Thus, our research discussed identity (SILVA, 2007) in the organization of the target language (AMADO, 2013), as well as in the language acquisition and the linguistic assimilation of the immigrant