Nationality in the Press and on Radio: A Language Policy in the Vargas Era

Abstract This paper studies the nationality regulation on radio and newspapers, trying to understand its effect over the language policy in those communication vehicles. For this purpose, we based the discussion on the Discourse Analysis and the History of Linguistic Ideas in Brazil. The corpus involves the legislation for the mass media published during the Vargas Era (1930-1945). In general, we discuss how the nationality policy resulted in a policy for the languages on radio and the written press, when increased or limited the right to speak for native or naturalized Brazilians and foreigners. Furthermore, the analysis shows that the right to speak regulation was an attempt to control the discourse production causing a foreigner interdiction in those particular vehicles.

摘要 本研究聚焦广播与报纸领域的国籍规制，旨在探究其对此类传播载体语言政策的影响。为此，本研究以巴西的话语分析（Discourse Analysis）与语言学思想史为研究基础展开讨论。本研究的语料库涵盖瓦加斯时代（1930-1945）期间颁布的大众传媒相关立法。总体而言，本研究探讨国籍政策如何演变为广播与印刷媒体的语言政策，即该政策通过对本土出生、归化巴西公民及外籍人士的媒体发声权进行增设或限制，以此达成相关语言政策的落地。此外，分析结果表明，媒体发声权规制的核心意图是管控话语生产，最终实现对外籍人士在上述传播载体中发声的禁令。