Modernity/Coloniality, Ideology, and Differentiation

Approximations Between Theoretical Aspects of Decolonial Literature and the Semiotics of Susan Gal and Judith T. Irvine

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processos semióticos, direrenciação, (de)colonialidade, ideologia, Semiotic processes, differentiation, (de)coloniality, ideology

Abstract

This study examines the intersection between Susan Gal and Judith T. Irvine's innovative approach in semiotics and linguistic anthropology, and the theoretical principles of the decolonial turn (CASTRO-GÓMEZ; GROSFOGUEL, 2007). Both scholars, renowned for their pioneering research, introduced a perspective that goes beyond the inherent logicism of Peircean semiotics, incorporating social elements, values in constant (re)negotiation, and ideology as a fundamental part of their analysis. This conceptual openness converges with decolonial critiques, challenging inert conceptions of reality and viewing semiotic processes as situated in a world of dissent, misunderstandings, and continuous constructions, marked by projects located in specific sociolinguistic fields and partial interpretive regimes. The study does not seek to establish a rigid equivalence between Gal and Irvine's analyses (2000, 2019) and decolonial theories, but highlights how they can mutually complement each other, promoting opportunities for interconnections and possible stances within existing partialities. Gal and Irvine's work raises pertinent questions about how the traditional understanding of semiosis has been and continues to be intersected by modernity/coloniality.
Keywords: Semiotic processes; differentiation; (de)coloniality; ideology.

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Luís Frederico Dornelas Conti, Universidade de São Paulo

Doutorando do Departamento de Letras Modernas da Universidade de São Paulo (USP), no Programa de Pós-Graduação em Estudos Linguísticos e Literários em Inglês (com início em 2021). Professor de Língua Estrangeira Moderna - Inglês na Secretaria de Estado de Educação do Distrito Federal (SEEDF) (atualmente em licença). Licenciado em Letras - Inglês pela Universidade Federal de Goiás (UFG) e mestre em Linguística Aplicada pela Universidade de Brasília (UnB), foi bolsista CAPES-PrInt (2022/23), atuando como pesquisador visitante na University of British Columbia (UBC), no Departamento de Estudos Educacionais. É interessado pelos temas do letramento crítico, da (de)colonialidade e da formação crítica de professores de línguas.

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2025-04-30

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Dornelas Conti, L. F. (2025). Modernity/Coloniality, Ideology, and Differentiation: Approximations Between Theoretical Aspects of Decolonial Literature and the Semiotics of Susan Gal and Judith T. Irvine. Inventário, (35), 42–61. Retrieved from https://revbaianaenferm.ufba.br/index.php/inventario/article/view/62538

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