Além do rio Uruguai, o que delimita a fronteira Brasil/Argentina? Mapeamento e análise da oferta da língua espanhola em escolas municipais na linha de fronteira

Abstract

Thinking about language policies implies thinking about state power and languages, but above all it implies thinking about the speakers of these languages. With this in mind, we aimed to investigate the offer of the Spanish language in municipal schools on the Brazil/Argentina border, in the 16 municipalities along the borderline from Garruchos to Barra do Guarita, Rio Grande do Sul. In order to understand how border linguistic manifestations occur, we rely on the studies of Sturza (2009; 2017) and authors such as Torquato (2010), who help in the understanding of the concepts of language policies and communities. Therefore, we used the field study as methodology, from which we developed a questionnaire and sent it to the education departments of the municipalities of interest. From the results, we obtained an indication of the offer of the Spanish language in the municipal schools of these cities, which allows us to verify to what extent the Constitutional Amendment 74/2018, which determines the mandatory offer of Spanish, is respected. Therefore, this is an investigation that reaffirms the importance of the linguistic planning of the State with the linguistic community, in order to value languages, peoples, cultures, identities, and this place of so much diversity that is the border