Rita Tamara Vallentin

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Senior Lecturer at European University Viadrina

The premise of the contributions to this book is to conceive languages, groups and belonging in terms of social, symbolic and spatial boundaries. In language contact situations especially, linguistic and social inequalities deeply interconnect with shifting boundary formations that can promote or impede the political, social and linguistic recognit...

This chapter introduces the relationship between language, belonging and politics in situations of language contact. It shows how discourses on languages and their speakers, language policies, materialities and practices interrelate in the making of hierarchies that order languages and groups. Arguing that nationalist discourses of monolingualism c...

In this book, the author introduces belonging from a sociolinguistic perspective as a concept that is accomplished in interaction. Belonging can be expressed linguistically in social, spatial and temporal categories – indexing rootedness, groupness and cohesion. It can also be captured through shared linguistic practices within a group, e.g. collec...

Recent research on Brazilian Portuguese (BP) is rich. Compared to European Portuguese (EP), speakers of BP have created new structures in different fields of deixis. This chapter unfolds spatial, temporal, and personal and discourse deixis, emphasizing the first and the last two of these, as they clearly indicate processes of language change. Latin...

This contribution will explore the use and meaning of the local adverb aquí (‵here′) in the context of a rural Guatemalan community. The participants do not position themselves in or are aware of ethnic categories of belonging as constituted in national Guatemalan discourse but employ a different, spatially grounded system of belonging in relation...

Na sociedade brasileira as comunidades de quilombos formam parte importante da população. Hoje em dia muitos quilombolas ainda reivindicam direitos e terras, conforme o artigo 68 do Ato das Disposições Transitórias da Constituição Federal de 1988. Alcançar a auto-sustentabilidade em cada âmbito da vida (trabalho, alimentação, educação, cultura, rel...

Ethnische Grenzen spielen in Brasilien nach wie vor eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Definition von „In- und Out-Groups". Dieser Artikel konzentriert sich auf die Kon- struktion dieser Grenzen in einer brasilianischen Quilombo Gemeinschaft. Die Quilom- bolas berufen sich auf ethnische Kategorien wie “Afro-Brasilianisch” und die Bewahrung einer “a...

Vorstellungen von Normen und Normalität hat jeder Einzelne. Was aber ist unter einer Norm zu verstehen und wer legt fest, was als Norm oder als normal gilt? Wie entstehen Normen und setzen sich durch oder diffundieren? In diesem Band setzen sich Beitragende aus Linguistik, Soziologie, Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaften mit zentralen Fragen der Her...