Linguistic prejudice: a case study at the university for the international integration of the afro-Brazilian lusophony, Ceará
International Journal of Development Research
Linguistic prejudice: a case study at the university for the international integration of the afro-Brazilian lusophony, Ceará
Received 14th August, 2019; Received in revised form 26th September, 2019; Accepted 20th October, 2019; Published online 30th November, 2019
Copyright © 2019, Francisca Aline da Silva Andrade. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
This study intends to conduct an investigation on the occurrence of linguistic prejudice within the University for the International Integration of Afro-Brazilian Lusophony (Unilab). For the data collection, a group of 24 students answered an investigative questionnaire with objective and subjective guiding questions. The 46% of the students are Brazilian and 54% are from Portuguese-speaking African Countries (PALOPs), in addition to East Timor. The data revealed that most informants suffered linguistic prejudice, both inside and outside the academic environment. The research shows that although this type of prejudice is not viewed by society with the same benefits as the others, it is present and deserves to be on the featured as one of the issues that can affect the lives of people of various linguistic variations.
