Title: Portuguese Linguistic Colonisation and Language Policy: Brazil and Mozambique, between Diversity, Inequality and Differences

Abstract: This article aims to discuss conceptually the distinctions between diversity, inequality and difference in relation to the Portuguese language of two nations that underwent processes of linguistic colonisation. To do so, it intends to present shifts in the meaning of the Portuguese language during the colonisation process and the post-independence process in Brazil and Mozambique.

Keywords: Brazil and Mozambique, linguistic colonisation, language policy, language inequality and diversity, meaning in Portuguese

Author: Bethania Mariani, Professor, Department of Language Sciences, University of Federal Fluminense, Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.