Sociological reflections: prohibition of neutral language in Porto Alegre

• Autor(a) principal: Oliveira da Silva, Lucas
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Conversas & Controvérsias
• Texto Completo: https://revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br/ojs/index.php/conversasecontroversias/article/view/44257
• topic: Neutral language; Inclusion; Facticity; Validity and moral panic; Linguagem neutra; Inclusão; Facticidade; Validade e pânico

This article deals with the prohibition of neutral language in schools in Porto Alegre, RS, by law 13.154/22. In order to analyze the fact that occurred with a sociological literature, Habermas moved to think about the facticity and validity of this legislative proposal that appears not only in this city, but in several in Brazil, practically demonstrating a social phenomenon of moral panic, this aligned with a conservative agenda. The law proves to be, above all, an instrument to pursue and detect those who think in an inclusive way, written in a tone of concern for the Portuguese language, but which is more like a struggle to impose an ideological narrative than any other sense. This narrative is strictly moralistic, traditional and with a prejudiced background.