Effects of economic models on linguistic goods distribution policies in Brazil

In this work, changes in the economic bases of capitalist production since the 1970s are observed, with the aim of contributing to the understanding of the processes of distribution of linguistic goods in Brazilian society. The lack of more detailed analysis of changes in economic bases and their effects for the maintenance and expansion of social inequality makes it more difficult to observe more closely the functioning of official projects for the teaching of Portuguese in Brazil. Based on the concepts of the Discourse Analysis, the tensions resulting from the competition between political and economic models, implanted in the country in the last five decades, are evidenced in their relations with the constitution of competing conceptions of Portuguese teaching and learning established in public education policies and materialized in curricular parameterization documents. The results show that it is necessary to question the effects of implementing a common national curriculum for language teaching when unequal schooling conditions are maintained, in a context of destruction of social policies and the subjection of the poorest to the competitive economic order.