A proposal for the promotion of Brazilian Portuguese in non-Lusophone European context: educational, political, economic, social and linguistic aspects

Abstract

This article presents a proposal for the dissemination of language and Brazilianculture in non-Lusophone European context. Considering the increase ininterest in Brazil, its culture and language in various European regions, it isintended, from studies that consider the variant of the Brazilian Portuguesespoken in Goiás, to establish an international agreement between the Collegeof Letters UFG and Del Salento University, based in Lecce in southern Italy,a region in which the interest in Brazilian Portuguese has increased. The ideais to promote seminars, schools of higher learning, short courses, internships,graduate students and post-doctoral, always taking Brazilian Portuguese as theaxis. In this article, we present the relevance of the proposal, its theoretical andmethodological support and some expected results.