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<journal-id>2182-4452</journal-id>
<journal-title><![CDATA[Revista Internacional em Língua Portuguesa]]></journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title><![CDATA[RILP]]></abbrev-journal-title>
<issn>2182-4452</issn>
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<publisher-name><![CDATA[Associação das Universidades de  Língua Portuguesa (AULP)]]></publisher-name>
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<article-id>S2182-44522017000200161</article-id>
<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.31492/2184-2043.rilp2017.32/pp.163-180</article-id>
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<article-title xml:lang="pt"><![CDATA[Os sentidos e os não sentidos da língua portuguesa: questões de língua e linguagem nos contos de Mia Couto]]></article-title>
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<contrib-group>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Silva]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Maurício]]></given-names>
</name>
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<aff id="Af1">
<institution><![CDATA[,Universidade Nove de Julho  ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[ ]]></addr-line>
<country>Brazil</country>
</aff>
<pub-date pub-type="pub">
<day>31</day>
<month>12</month>
<year>2017</year>
</pub-date>
<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>31</day>
<month>12</month>
<year>2017</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>32</volume>
<fpage>161</fpage>
<lpage>178</lpage>
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<copyright-year/>
<self-uri xlink:href="http://scielo.pt/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&amp;pid=S2182-44522017000200161&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://scielo.pt/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&amp;pid=S2182-44522017000200161&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://scielo.pt/scielo.php?script=sci_pdf&amp;pid=S2182-44522017000200161&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="pt"><p><![CDATA[Resumo O presente artigo trata da produção ficcional de Mia Couto, em especial seus contos, analisando o modo como o autor moçambicano trabalha em seus textos questões relacionadas à língua e à linguagem, além de vincularmos tais questões às teorias do pós-colonialismo. Para Mia Couto, o processo de colonização impõe ao colonizado outro modo de falar, que corresponde a outra língua. Assim, em Mia Couto, há que se distinguir uma questão da língua e uma questão da linguagem, ambas inseridas no contexto do pós-colonialismo: a primeira, mais relacionada ao processo de reconstrução idiomática do português no continente africano; a segunda naturalmente vinculada a uma reflexão ideológica que se reflete, metaforicamente, no substrato metalinguístico de sua ficção. Finalmente, destacamos, neste artigo, a dimensão política da escrita de Mia Couto, já que o trabalho com a linguagem, em sua produção ficcional, vincula-se à problemática das identidades se perfazem no contexto histórico de Moçambique, em particular, e da África lusófona, em geral.]]></p></abstract>
<abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="en"><p><![CDATA[Abstract This article is about the fictional production of Mia Couto, especially his short stories. It analyzes how the Mozambican author uses in his writings issues related to speech and language and links it to the theories of postcolonialism. For Mia Couto the process of colonization imposes on the colonized another way of speaking, which corresponds to another language. In Mia Couto´s fiction, the question of language is inserted in the context of postcolonialism, both related to the process of language reconstruction of Portuguese on the African continent, and to an ideological reflection of his fiction. Finally, in this article, we highlight the political dimension of Mia Couto&#8217;s writing, since the work with language, that is linked to the problematic of identities in the historical context of Mozambique.]]></p></abstract>
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