Thesis--Berlin. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 190-197).

[pt] Inspirada nas análises seminais do Developemntspeak, o dialeto utilizado no campo do desenvolvimento, produzidas na virada do milênio, e nas contribuições feministas nos Estudos de Ciência e Tecnologia, esta tese de doutorado constrói uma crítica epistemológica da Agenda 2030 tomando o discurso do desenvolvimento como proxy das forças que agem sobre as agendas internacionais de desenvolvimento. Misturando análises qualitativas e quantitativas, os métodos aqui aplicados revelam não apenas o que o desenvolvimento pretende ser, mas também como ele pode terminar aquém das suas próprias expectativas. Em termos simples, esta tese dispõe conceitos e práticas lado a lado como uma estratégia capaz de revelar quanto do discurso elaborado e afinado dos documentos oficiais é traduzido em ações concretas. Ao rastrear as palavras, rastreamos as transformações que ocorrem neste campo e descobrimos que algumas palavras permanecem, enquanto outras desaparecem, e que alguns conceitos são incluídos no discurso oficial com o propósito de produzir eufemismo, ambiguidade ou neutralidade funcionando muitas vezes como uma colherada de açúcar que ajuda a tornar essas agendas em remédios mais palatáveis. Dois conceitos principais surgem desta análise: participação e dados. Como algo antigo e algo novo, respectivamente, eles nos ajudam a compreender como a Agenda 2030 carrega ao mesmo tempo antigas problemáticas e uma nova fachada. Considerando a natureza hiperquantitativa da Agenda 2030, o caminho que começa rodeado de discussões sobre a política da linguagem evolui rapidamente para locais onde os principais debates giram em torno da política dos dados. / [en] Inspired by the seminal analyses of Developmentspeak, the dialect used in the development field, produced at the turn of the millennium, and feminist contributions in Science and Technology Studies (STS), this PhD thesis builds an epistemological critique of the 2030 Agenda taking Developmentspeak as an accurate proxy of the forces pushing and pulling international development agendas. Mixing qualitative and quantitative analysis, the methods pursued in this work unveil not only what development intends to be, but also how it might fall short from its own expectations. In simple terms, concepts and practices get disposed side by side in this work as a strategy to reveal how much of the elaborated and finely tuned discourse of official documents hits the ground. As a result, by tracking words, we track transformations going on in the field: discovering that some words remain, while some fade away, and that some concepts are included into official discourse with the purpose of producing euphemism, ambiguity or neutrality working many times as the spoonful of sugar that helps the bitter medicine of development go down. Two main concepts arise from this analysis: participation and data. As something old and something new, respectively, they help us to understand how the 2030 Agenda carries both ancient problematics and a novel façade. Considering the hyper-quantitative nature of the 2030 Agenda, the path that begins surrounded by discussions on the politics of language quickly evolves to places in which the main debates revolve around the politics of data.

In this thesis, I attempt to describe and analyse language ideologies relevant in the specific situation of the Sorbian minority in the city of Bautzen (Sorbian: Budyšin) - a city with a clear German majority at the same time considered a cultural, social and political centre of Sorbs - with a special emphasis on links between language and nationalism. Focusing on these links, I also examine the specific role of language for maintainance of Sorbian national identity. I also view Sorbian language ideologies in the broader context of social and political relations in and around Bautzen, whereas I, among other topics, inquire into recently significant hatred of local German radical right towards the Sorbian minority. At the same time, I attempt to capture the power relations between German and Sorbian languages. Apart from the paradigm of language ideologies, I am also informed by works of certain poststructuralist authors, especially due to their emphasis on constructivism regarding identities and language mechanisms. Keywords: language, language ideologies, nationalism, language nationalism, identities, national identity, ethnicity, language and power, Sorbian, German, language and politics, language contact