ABSTRACT
This paper aims to investigate language ideologies related to the French language present in the texts of students of French as a foreign language (FFL) in six schools in the city of João Pessoa. To this end, answers to one of the questions of a questionnaire completed by 174 language school students were qualitatively analyzed, exploring the thematic content and textual elements from the perspective of text linguistics (Koch, 2000aKoch, I. V. (2000a). A inter-ação pela linguagem. Contexto., 2000bKoch, I. V. (2000b). Argumentação e linguagem (6. ed.). Cortez.). The analysis was performed based on the discussions of language ideologies (Del Valle, 2007Del Valle, J. (2007). Glotopolítica, ideología y discurso: categorías para el estudio del estatus simbólico del español. In J. Del Valle (Ed.), La lengua, ¿pátria común? Ideas e ideologías del español (pp. 13-29). Vervuert/Iberoamericana.; Arnoux & Del Valle, 2010Arnoux, E. N., & Del Valle, J. (2010). Las representaciones ideológicas del lenguaje: discurso glotopolítico y panhipanismo. Spanish in context, 7(1), 1-24. https://academicworks.cuny.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1073&context=gc_pubs
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; and Del Valle & Meirinho-Guede, 2016Del Valle, J., & Meirinho-Guede, V. (2016). Ideologías lingüísticas. In J. Gutiérrez-Rexach (Ed.), Enciclopedia de lingüística hispánica (v. 2. pp. 622-631). Routledge. https://academicworks.cuny.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=&httpsredir=1&article=1273&context=gc_pubs
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). Results indicated that the ideas related to the French Language (FL) have several connections to social dimensions, namely aesthetic - FL as a symbol of elegance and refinement and FL as representative of a superior culture -, epistemological - FL as the language of science -, national identity - FL as the language of France -, international identity - FL as the language of diplomacy -, and labor - FL as a language for the labor market.
Keywords:
language ideology; textual analysis; French; FFL