{"id":182009,"date":"2015-04-10T13:01:22","date_gmt":"2015-04-10T16:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/?p=182009"},"modified":"2015-08-20T16:01:33","modified_gmt":"2015-08-20T19:01:33","slug":"language-in-evolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/language-in-evolution\/","title":{"rendered":"Language in evolution"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Portuguese language spoken in Brazil has always seemed strange, and sometimes unrecognizable, to the Portuguese. The reverse is also true. Some Brazilian visitors on their first trip to the land of the famous poet Cam\u00f5es understand little of European Portuguese. Each nationality jokingly accuses the other of speaking a nonsense language that is intentionally difficult to understand. This is one of those disagreements in which both sides are mostly right. The language of the Portuguese colonizers of Brazil has never stopped changing, although some rudiments of antiquated Portuguese can be found in a few places in this huge country. The language spoken in Brazil was brought from Portugal and disseminated throughout Brazil\u2019s South and Central-West, beginning in the 16th<\/sup>-century, by the S\u00e3o Paulo pioneers, who added some regional aspects to the language during their extended expeditions. This issue\u2019s cover story recounts stories like this based on an extensive study carried out over the last 30 years that identified characteristics specific to Brazilian Portuguese. The language spoken in Brazil is so different from the original European language that it can be considered unique. Experts estimate that perhaps in another 200 years it will actually become its own language, as explained in the report<\/a> by Special Editor Carlos Fioravanti.<\/p>\n

The residents of colonial S\u00e3o Paulo were also the subject of study by historian S\u00e9rgio Buarque de Holanda, who investigated the river expeditions that journeyed from S\u00e3o Paulo towards Mato Grosso. The researcher and author of several classics in Brazilian historiography published Monsoons <\/em>in 1945 and worked for many years on a new version of the book in order to rewrite it based on the results of new research. Everything indicates that an obsession with improving what was already complete and printed was one of S\u00e9rgio Buarque’s characteristics. It is worth reading about the reprinting of Monsoons<\/em> in two volumes\u2014one with the original text and the other with the rewritten chapters\u2014in the report by Special Editor Marcos Pivetta<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The American biologist Thomas Lovejoy has nothing to do with S\u00e3o Paulo’s pioneers, although over the last 50 years he has also traversed land little known to science\u2014in this case, the Amazon. He began his work in the region in 1965 and has lost count of the number of times he has been there, almost always traveling from the United States. Lovejoy has a good relationship with the government, which allows him to influence the formulation of environmental public policy. Five decades later, he remains committed to projects to define areas and strategies for the preservation of forests and to thinking about the future of the Amazon, as explained in an interview<\/a> with Maria Guimar\u00e3es and Carlos Fioravanti.<\/p>\n

In recent years, environmental policy has received technological support that included the decisive participation of Brazilian researchers. The Earth Engine platform, by the computer giant Google, originated in Brazil a short time ago and has become important in the development of digital high-resolution maps from satellite images.\u00a0Reporter Yuri Vasconcelos<\/a>\u00a0describes the development process and the main uses of this digital tool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Language in evolution","protected":false},"author":568,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[158],"tags":[],"coauthors":[1527],"class_list":["post-182009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editorial-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/568"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182009\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182009"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=182009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}