Abstract

GUSMAO, Neusa Maria Mendes de. Language, culture and otherness: children and ethinicity. Cad. Pesqui. [online]. 1999, n.107, pp.41-78. ISSN 0100-1574.

Language, culture, and otherness are complementary and also confliting issues representing the central debate on childhood and the child who carries the signals of social and/or ethinical of exclusion. The debate on the social still connected to universal and absolute values and trues, therefor the theme needs a reavaliation on the realm of relativism. Questioning the fact that culture and otherness are expressed by language which are not always visible and explicit, requering a close and deep look at many social realities enpoorvered suburbs and rural areas, white and black children, homeless children, we kept their voices and speaches, their images from their own drawings to understand the way the percept mean they live and they are. These children have a word for school, and also about the process and agents to say by many different ways to express how they look their own world and how the world look at them.

Keywords : Linguagem; Cultura; Etnias; Crianças; Percepção .

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