Atitudes linguísticas em torno da língua de imigração e a sua (não) transmissão

Abstract

This article presents reflections about linguistic attitudes of bilingual speakers, from a city located in the west of Paraná, in data collected during tehe doctorate thesis about linguistic politics in relation to German language. In this study, which is qualitative, it was found, by means f interviews, that one of the reasons for not maintaining the immigrant language in the community is directly related to the contact with the language of prestige, Portuguese, and the stigma that groups present in relation to the minority language, German, which culminates in the parents’ decision not to speak it anymore and, at the same time, not to transmit it to their children. Therefore, based on the theoretical contribution of sociolinguistics, there is a complex relationship between society and language, reflected in the attitudes of the speakers and in the decrease of the interaction in German in the locality.