Dr Stefan Halikowski Smith

Books

• Global Portuguese; Literary, Historical, Sociolinguistic and Anthropological Approaches.

Series: European Expansion and Indigenous Response, Volume: 44, Brill 2025

Volume Editors: Shihan de Silva Jayasuriya and Stefan Halikowski Smith

ISBN: ‎ 978-9004710504. Publication: 29 May 2025

Abstract

Global Portuguese results from conferences convened at the University of London School of Advanced Study to highlight legacies of Portuguese empire in postcolonial societies and which suscited a great ideal of interest. The book's chapters trace Portuguese legacies from the early modern to contemporary period through history, literature, linguistics, and anthropology. There are sections devoted to sociolinguistic method in measuring regional variation, to foodways, folk theatre, to the short story, to Portuguese 'revolutionary languages', to migration, early ethnography, exiled women, regional rebellion, computational analysis of semantic change in Portuguese, and studies on Thailand (Ayutthaya), Java, Sri Lanka, Goa, Macau, Brazil, São Tomé, Mozambique (Monomotapa) and Angola. Are we to conclude that Portuguese is more or less of a global language than it was at the height of empire (c. 1620)? And is it a pluricentric language? What kind of language has replaced the dying Portuguese Asian creoles, is this testimony rather to the rise of Anglicization, or 'Globish'? Is the concept of lusófonia racist? Why is the Acordo Ortográfico of 1990 (AOLP) controversial?

Contributors are: Matthias Rõhrig Assunção, Dorothée Boulanger, Silvia Figueiredo
Brandão, David Brookshaw, Paul Melo e Castro, Augusto Soares da Silva, Shihan de
Silva Jayasuriya, Stefan Halikowski Smith, Annabel Jackson, Ivana Stolze Lima, Selina
Patel Nascimento, Malyn Newitt, Gerhard Seibert, Andrzej Stuart-Thompson, Raan-
Hann Tan, and Silvia Rodrigues Vieira.