Metapragmáticas de um teste linguístico e ideologias linguísticas em contextos migratórios

Abstract

The main goal of this paper is to identify, describe and interrelate metapragmatic resources and linguistic ideologies connected to Celpe-Bras in online and offline ethnographic fields. The ethnographic methodology consists of a survey of Facebook pages on PEC-G and CELPE-BRAS, a selection of the pages’ posts, and some interviews with PEC-G students. In order to base the analyzis, the concepts of metapragmatics, language ideologies, linguistic hierarchy, standardization and linguistic market are used. The results indicate that, in addition to moving a language market through the sale of preparatory courses, the test allows the spread of a language ideology which presents the Portuguese language only in its standard form and compromise the migrants’ legitimate experiences. When the students arrived in Brazil, they found a linguistic reality for which they were not prepared during the previous study of Portuguese for the test. There are also indications of the institutional character of the test, in demonstrating the predominant purpose of the test is to apply to a Brazilian university.