Inglês como língua franca sob um olhar crítico e decolonial

Abstract

The concept of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) has received great prominence in language studies, both in international and national settings, since the first studies carried out in Europe until its reinterpretation by Brazilian scholars. In addition, the ELF perspective underlies the English language guidelines in three different curricular policies in Brazilian Basic Education,

Analyzing the Concept and Field of Inquiry of English as a Lingua Franca from a Decolonial Perspective

“…Gabriela This article briefly outlines the elf concept while identifying and interrogating where elf voices come from and who can voice on elf issues. In doing so, it presents part of the data resulting from an extensive elf literature review as well as a documentary analysis of the International Conference of English as a Lingua Franca Programmes (Rosa, 2021). Findings show a complex weave of meanings marked by coloniality traces in which European viewpoints still function as la hybris del punto cero (Castro-Gómez, 2007).…”

“…However, we question the extent to which these different moves genuinely represent a paradigm shift, considering that some underlying notions are still present in global north elf production, as we will comment in the next section. This is so as elf has been considered a polemic and polysemic term (Rosa, 2021) how a geo-body-politics of knowledge (Mignolo, 2007) operates in the legitimacy/invisibility of voices. This implies, first and foremost, wearing decolonial lenses.…”

“…In line with Canagarajah's critiques, we propose to investigate the elf field of inquiry with a decolonial magnifying glass in the search for traces that deconstruct such ambiguities. For this investigation, Rosa (2021) has proposed to turn the attention to one of the most important conferences about elf, the International Conference of English as a Lingua Franca. This event used to take place once a year at universities in different countries gathering scholars from different parts of the world.…”

“…This is what happens when we consider the keynote speakers in the last elf conferences. During her investigation, Rosa (2021) found out that most invited speakers come from European countries such as the United Kingdom and Austria, where the first studies about elf were developed, as shown in Figure 3.…”

“…This paper is founded on extensive qualitative-interpretive research conducted by one of the authors (Rosa, 2021) under the influence of Ginzburg's (1989) evidential paradigm as a methodological choice. Ginzburg associates this paradigm with the work of a detective when he states that the detective solving a crime relies "on the basis of evidence that is imperceptible to most people" (Ginzburg, 1989, pp.…”