ABSTRACT
The Applied Linguistics has been informed by a modern perspective that removes the body from its linguistic concerns. Therefore, this work aims to discuss the relationship between language and body. For this, initially, it reflects about the place of the body in the general field of Language Studies. Next, it presents a discussion about the processes of semiotization around two specific bodies: the black-body and the woman-body. Finally, it presents the intersectional perspective as an investigative alternative that extends the problematization of the link between body and language. The discussion points to the importance of the exercise of metacritic as a strategy to deal with sophisticated practices of erasing bodies that hide power dynamics, as well as the disadvantages that are established through language.
KEYWORDS:
body; language; intersectionality