THE ETHNIC AND LINGUISTIC IDENTITY OF THE ITALIAN-BRAZILIAN: ITS CONSTITUTION AND RECONSTRUCTION

THE ETHNIC AND LINGUISTIC IDENTITY OF THE ITALIAN-BRAZILIAN: ITS CONSTITUTION AND RECONSTRUCTION

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: This text approaches the constitution and reconstruction of the ethnic and linguistic identity of the Italian-Brazilian of the northeast region of Rio Grande do Sul.The analysis is qualitative and is based on three Italian dialect phrases, representative of auto-categorization of the Italian descendent, produced by him and used alternately according to the different phases of the social and linguistics processes.The main goal is to understand identity expressions.It describes thoroughly the primordial vision of identity here and approaches theoretical principles of scholars who consider identity a constant process of construction and reconstruction which involves individuals during their lifetime and that is reconstructed through generations.

The understanding of his identity discount greenery constitutes a complex matter but it is given through the analysis of the socio-cultural and linguistic changes that took place in the community studied.The identity of an individual is closely connected to his languages and the feeling of belonging to a specific human group.This way, we see the possibility of the subject having more then one identity.Brazilianity and Italianity are both aspects of the same phenomenon.

Identity, after all, does not exist beforehand, it is formed and defined historically and it is plural.