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The Portuguese language, as the foundation of national sovereignty, is an essential element of Portuguese cultural heritage

Abstract

The role of the school as a mediator of these top goods that are the national language and culture is undeniable.
Language, as an organized system that we use to establish communication between the various subjects who use the same code, according to Ferdinand de Saussure, “is, at the same time, a social product of the language faculty and a set of necessary conventions, adopted by the body to allow individuals to exercise this faculty”. Understood, therefore, as social institution, resulting from a set of conventions, established and accepted by all who belong to a linguistic collectivity, language exists as a collective body. Therefore, only with the development of sociolinguistics it was possible to more precisely characterize the relations between language and society.