Language, colonization and resistance:

a discussion on the uses of language.

Abstract

This work aims to reflect on the forms of domination through language for the dissemination of ways of being and thinking to the peoples of Africa and the territory that would become Brazil. In this movement, we also need to understand the permanences and impositions of these groups and their possibilities of articulation in this context, which ended up generating a language of its own, Brazilian Portuguese. To understand how communication took place in this scenario, we considered the role of the Society of Jesus in structuring colonial exploration and the strategies established by the groups submitted, based on the assumption that, given their diversity, one of them was the creation of new languages, which disputed with Portuguese. Thus, resistance was also possible through speech, which was born from the African languages, of the same linguistic trunk, formulated and reformulated in the social dynamics.