Linguistic decolonization process and lusophony

Abstract

In this text, Eni Orlandi formulates the concept of linguistic descolonization: the imaginary imaginary in which takes place a linguistic event founded upon the fact that a language males sem se in relation to subjects that have been, bit are no more submitted to a power which imposes a language over subjects belonging to another society, State, Nation. The author analysies the process of linguistic decolonization in Brazil and proposes a turn in the relationship with Portugal and the other countries colonized by it through the resignification of the notion of "lusophony" towards decolonization.