O (des) acordo ortográfico: análise de opiniões de falantes de Língua Portuguesa em Portugal, Brasil e Moçambique

Abstract

The new Orthographic Agreement does not yet gather consensus among the members of the Community of Portuguese Language Countries (CPLP). Considering this scenario, this study has analyzed twelve interviews (videos from the Youtube site and the online journal “O País”) made with Portuguese language speakers from Portugal, Brazil and Mozambique, with the objective of identifying which topics of the official Orthographic Agreement document generate more concern. Furthermore, this study intends to understand which motives are behind the opposition to the Agreement of 1990. Inspired by an interpretive paradigm the results revealed that the position of Brazilian Subjects relating to the points of the official document, differ in relation to points made by the Portugueses and Mozambicans. Additionally, comparative analysis helped us organize the arguments of speakers in various dimensions, and thus understand that the reasons for each country to the resistance have very different reasons.