Abstract
Based on the analysis of the re-entextualization of a Brazilian professional funk video into a homemade video in the Philippines, made by queer young men, this article discusses the linguistic ideology and the meta-pragamatic projections that such a textual trajectory invokes. Besides being informed by queer theories, the study also relies on the theoretic-analytical constructs of indexicality, circulation of discourses, fields of communicability and performativity. It argues that the linguistic ideology mobilized in the focused re-entextualization process is different from traditional representational and modernist ideologies, as it points to performative views of languages and of participants’ bodies. Such an ideology is forged by means of translocal meta-pragmatics that project a logic of an as-if social world. Investigating it implies the observation of in-transit-indexicalities.
Key-words:
Re-entextualization; Indexicality; Linguistic ideology; Translocality; Queer theories
