THE MANUAL OF DESCRIPTION OF BRAZILIAN PORTUGUESE

In this work we present a review about the work "Descricao do Portugues Brasileiro" (Description of Brazilian Portuguese) (BASSO, 2019), which belongs to the Linguistic Collection for Higher Education. In this manual, the author shows the functioning of the varieties and peculiarities of Brazilian Portuguese (hereinafter, BP), indicating how the language varies and changes over time. For this, the teacher starts from the description of linguistic phenomena that occur at different levels of linguistic analysis, describing phonetic-phonological, morphological, syntactic and semantic pragmatic properties of BP. This linguistic knowledge has repercussions, both on teaching and learning practices, as well as on the formation of the mother tongue teacher, in addition to helping a teaching practice that is free from prescriptive prejudice.