TUPINISMO: UM ESTUDO SOBRE A IMPOSIÇÃO DA LÍNGUA GERAL AMAZÔNICA NO CONTEXTO BRASILEIRO

Abstract

Understanding by Tupinism the process of imposition through the physical violence of a Tupi trunk language, this study seeks to demonstrate that the means of implantation and propagation of the general Amazonian or Nheengatu language in the Brazilian Amazon occurred in an imposing and coercive manner. Thus, the starting point for the discussions is the contributions of Antezana (2014), Baniwa (2016), Fanon (2005), Freire (2011), Fonseca (2015), Hall (2016), Othero (2017), Silva and Isquerdo (2009) and Stessuk (2006). Thus, it was possible to verify that besides a supra-ethnic language that allowed the contact between peoples of different ethnic groups, in reality the general Amazonian language was, for some time, a strong instrument used according to the interests of the colonial system, whose imposition did not allow to be arbitrary, coercive and violent, thus disregarding the specificities, identities, singularities and the right of each community to maintain its own language.