Spanish in Brazil: Language Policy, Business, and Cultural Propaganda

@article{Valle2006SpanishIB,
  title={Spanish in Brazil: Language Policy, Business, and Cultural Propaganda},
  author={Jos{\'e} del Valle and Laura Villa},
  journal={Language Policy},
  year={2006},
  volume={5},
  pages={371-394},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:144373408}
}
The purpose of this article is to describe and analyze the policies designed and implemented since the early nineties by Spanish government agencies in order to promote Spanish as a valuable… 
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