Bilingualism as a Means of Enriching the Transnational Relation of the French-Brazilian Family
Bilingualism articulation in the identity construction of the French-Brazilian families is a phenomenon which involves strategic constructions to maintain the transnational relation. The transmission of the Portuguese language to the children of the French-Brazilian couples would be the result of the strategic choices according to the model of transplantation of the Brazilian women in France. The results are presented using a typology of the modes of the cultural transmission. However, the relation with biculturalism is not uniform: it depends on the three modes of conjugality that we release in this paper. Thus, the mother tongue is regarded as a cultural heritage, which is an object of the marital negotiation, being able to be the object of a valorization, discussed according to the legitimate identity cultural references in these mixed families.