MAIA, J. V. L. M.; http://lattes.cnpq.br/4700416969649852; MAIA, João Victor Lira Mangabeira.
Abstract:
The English language has, for too long, been a source of debates regarding the reasons for its
adoption as a language of global relations to the detriment of other languages, thus raising
questions concerning its social role, perception as a colonial remnant, a mechanism for
domination, maintenance of power, social protagonism and imposition of behavioral patterns.
For this reason, this TCC has the general pursuit of observing languages - particularly the
English language - from a humanist standpoint of valuing the sociable, aiming to discuss them
as a heritage of humanity. More particularly, to analyze and discuss colonialism and its social
substrates, culture as a means of valuing people and their cultural identities, and highlighting
linguistic variations as a natural phenomenon and a trait of linguistic and cultural
heterogeneity that spoils traditional way of thinking about colonial language as a simple
means to oppression. Therefore, it was necessary to investigate, through a bibliographic study,
the historical and cultural processes of the English language's expansionism, understand how
it behaved in present history, and describe its current arrangement in the global state. To this
end, authors such as Harari (2012), Bakhtin (2006), Parker (1995), and Anjos (2017) were
used as theoretical bases to portray the origins of the human species, the concepts of language,
the expansionism of the British Empire and the emergence of Applied Linguistics (AL);
Torres (2007), Santos (2009), and Mignolo (2007) over discussing colonialism and culture;
Brown and Attardo (2005), Calvet (2002) and Hooks (2013) on sociolinguistics and linguistic
variation. Thus, we infer that language as a producer and or product of human interactions
permeates its state as a communicative structure, and it becomes the essence of cultural
enrichment, wherefore it transfigures the social construction of perception of language as a
villain and deviant, given the lack of impetus in immaterial and non-human structures.