Critical Language Policy / Research Group

The PoLiTicas group is located at the Federal University of Santa Catarina. It works with three interconnected axes:

(i) a political one, by focusing both on the socio-historical technologies of power (such as the colonial dispositif and the emergence of modern states) and the public-political sphere of socio-verbal interaction, considered as a space for dialogue and action in freedom of the subjects;
(ii) an ethical one, committed to the implications of the concepts of languages, and their contextualized uses, for the production of subjectivities;
(iii) a legal-administrative one, which articulates the production, application and analysis of rules/norms related to language use and protection, focusing both on ​ individuals and communities' rights.