What linguistic norm is that? What Portuguese to teach at school?

Paulo Feytor Pinto interviews Edleise Mendes

Abstract

“First we need to understand what we are calling pluricentric languages. The understanding or discussion of pluricentric languages has been in evidence lately in all sectors — in research, in teaching and also in terms of government management and language policies developed by them. Perhaps it has been a discussion left aside a little before, but, because of the need to think about the Portuguese language in a new perspective, for the 21st century, as a language of international communication, as a language of global expression, this discussion has become important."