ABSTRACT
This chapter questions identity ties formed in a language that increasingly inhabits the interstices between the local and the global. Its theoretical background builds upon discourse studies with a materialistic approach by Pêcheaux put in relation to Bourdieu’s theories in sociolinguistics, which establish the ground for the analysis of the data collected through a study with some students of Brazilian Portuguese, both native and non-native. This study started questioning, among other things, the agreements and disagreements between the local and global dimensions of the Portuguese language. Such questioning means to specifically discuss the identity that this language has been composing in its Brazilian historicity. Nonetheless, it does not occur without ruptures, without dissent, without loss, without assimilation, without other agreements and strangeness. This movement is characteristic and constitutive of any and every language; the condition of non-enclosure in relation to the local establishes an inside that is intrinsically constitutive of its exterior. In the same way, language is only achieved in the encounters established locally and globally. The students’ views, constituted by different perspectives, provided elements to reflect about the status of these relations.
