INDIGENOUS PROTAGONISM

REFLECTIONS ON INSTITUTIONAL LANGUAGE POLICIES AT ABRALIN’S LIVE EVENT ON YOUTUBE, DURING THE PANDEMIC PERIOD

Abstract

This study addresses indigenous protagonism and how the institutional policies of the Brazilian Linguisticassociation (Abralin) contribute to raising and affirming the cultures, languages and identity of indigenous peoples, that is, the actions developed by Abralin that dialogue and meet the linguistic issues of indigenous peoples. Thus, the objective is to analyze indigenous protagonism as a policy of linguistic visibility based on three events of the Abralin project live. For this analysis, a qualitative approach was used based on the data available on Youtube, as well as corpus the round tables - Indigenous Languages: revitalization and resumption; Watatakalu Yawalapiti: Indigenous resistance; and Linguistic Policies: Public Policies and the Indigenous Question - which integrate the Abralin project live, thus characterizing as a study of empirical nature, through the analysis and discussion of indigenous agendas brought by indigenous researchers and managers/activists working in the linguistic-political affairs of indigenous peoples in Brazil. The online space used to obtain the corpus of this research is the YouTube channel of the institution mentioned above. Therefore, it is noted the importance of indigenous protagonism in institutions that dialogue about the linguistic diversity, identity and culture of these peoples. And thus, expanding the participation of indigenous peoples within institutions is a possible path that will give visibility to indigenous issues.