Linguistic ethnography in the sociolinguistically complex context of a Western Paraná community: backward into the future of some intersectional applied linguistics

ABSTRACT In a chronicle of our increasingly intersectional reflection about a sociolinguistically complex context that we have studied (Jung, 1997, 2003; Jung & Garcez, 2007) having Marilda Cavalcanti as key interlocutor, we look back to earlier work to highlight how the intelligibility we developed about literacy practices in a school community in the West of Paraná has expanded beyond language and gender. In the framework of our reflection on language and political economy (Garcez & Jung, 2021) and particularly in light of the work of Jung and Machado e Silva (2021) on the local festival held annually by the municipality where the school community we studied was located, we revisit our perceptions in a more express and contemporary re-articulation now attentive to axes of differentiation around social class and race. We underscore the privilege of whiteness in our current understandings of local dynamics and in our own positionalities.