Meaning and no meaning of Portuguese language: issues of speech and language in Mia Couto tales
This article is about the fictional production of Mia Couto, especially his short stories. It analyzes how the Mozambican author uses in his writings issues related to speech and language and links it to the theories of postcolonialism. For Mia Couto the process of colonization imposes on the coloni...
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| description | This article is about the fictional production of Mia Couto, especially his short stories. It analyzes how the Mozambican author uses in his writings issues related to speech and language and links it to the theories of postcolonialism. For Mia Couto the process of colonization imposes on the colonized another way of speaking, which corresponds to another language. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-406ff91f5b73422bb5ee68531cb3054c2022-12-22T02:32:43ZporUniversidade Federal FluminenseAbril1984-20902017-11-019199911710.22409/abriluff.2017n19a424316Meaning and no meaning of Portuguese language: issues of speech and language in Mia Couto talesMaurício Silva0Universidade Nove de Julho (São Paulo)This article is about the fictional production of Mia Couto, especially his short stories. It analyzes how the Mozambican author uses in his writings issues related to speech and language and links it to the theories of postcolonialism. For Mia Couto the process of colonization imposes on the colonized another way of speaking, which corresponds to another language.http://www.revistaabril.uff.br/index.php/revistaabril/article/view/424Mia CoutoLiteratura africana lusófonaLíngua Portuguesa. |
| spellingShingle | Maurício Silva Meaning and no meaning of Portuguese language: issues of speech and language in Mia Couto tales Abril Mia Couto Literatura africana lusófona Língua Portuguesa. |
| title | Meaning and no meaning of Portuguese language: issues of speech and language in Mia Couto tales |
| title_full | Meaning and no meaning of Portuguese language: issues of speech and language in Mia Couto tales |
| title_fullStr | Meaning and no meaning of Portuguese language: issues of speech and language in Mia Couto tales |
| title_full_unstemmed | Meaning and no meaning of Portuguese language: issues of speech and language in Mia Couto tales |
| title_short | Meaning and no meaning of Portuguese language: issues of speech and language in Mia Couto tales |
| title_sort | meaning and no meaning of portuguese language issues of speech and language in mia couto tales |
| topic | Mia Couto Literatura africana lusófona Língua Portuguesa. |
| url | http://www.revistaabril.uff.br/index.php/revistaabril/article/view/424 |
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