International migratory movements in the globalized world bring to society an impact that forces us to rethink concepts such as language, culture and identities. With this vision, included in the context of Chinese immigration in Brazil, the present work aims to discuss the discursive construction of the identities of the leaders of the initiatives of teaching Portuguese to Chinese immigrants, undertaken by the Chinese evangelical churches in Sao Paulo. In the light of the Interactional Sociolinguistics (Goffman, [1959]2008, [1964]2002, 1974, 1981, [1981] 2002:Gumperz,1982a,1982b; Ribeiro and Garcez, 2002; Schiffin, 1996; Tannen, 1992, 1993:Pereira, 2002 ), we attempt to interpret the leaders' positions from contextualization cues(Gumperz, 1982a), in order to reflect on the construction of their identities (Bauman, 2005:Hall, 2000; Gumperz & Cook-Gumperz, 1982; Bucholtz & Hall , 2005; Moita Lopes, 2003,2006) in front of the initiatives. To this objective, we conducted a field research and interviewed6 initiative leaders. We adopted the qualitative method - Ethnographic Microanalysis (Erickson,1996)- to analyze the discourse of the leaders. The results show that the context of the initiatives is symbolized as a space for religious literacy, reception and socialization. The Portuguese language is represented with a broader perspective, as a space for interaction, integration and host. In relation to their leadership actions, the subjects position themselves as social actors concerned with a practice of solidarity and religious literacy.

在全球化浪潮中，国际移民运动给社会带来巨大影响，这迫使我们重新思考一些概念比如:语言、文化和身份。鉴于此视角，在巴西华人移民的背景下，本论文旨在研究圣保罗华人基督教会中葡文课程领袖的话语身份构建。本文以互动社会语言学(Gofiman, [1959]2008,[1964]2002,1974,1981,[1981]2002; Gumperz, 1982a, 1982bRibeiro and Garcez,2002; Schiffin,1996; Tannen,1992,1993; Pereira, 2002 )为理论基础,从各领袖话语中的语境线索(Gumperz,1982a)出发，探讨各领袖在教会葡文课程方面的立场，从而了解其身份构建的过程(Bauman,2005;Hall,2000;Gumperz&Cook-Gumperz.1982; Bucholtz & Hall ,2005;Moita Lopes,2003,2006)。为此，本文作者在圣保罗开展了田野调查，并对6位领袖进行了采访。在研究方法上，本文采用民族志微观分析法(Erickson,1996)对各领袖的话语进行定性分析。结果显示，在领袖的话语中，教会的葡文课程被构建成向中国移民传播宗教知识的空间，同时也象征着教会接待移民以及移民进行社会交际的场所。而葡萄牙语，在这些课程中，也具有更多的象征意义，比如作为交际的语言，融入当地社会的语言以及东道国的语言。关于各领袖的在葡文课程方面的领导行动，表现出其作为社会成员对于巴西华人移民社区的共同责任分担以及对华人移民传播基督宗教信仰的目的。