%0 Journal Article %T O acordo ortogr¨¢fico da l¨ªngua portuguesa e a meta de simplifica£¿£¿o e unifica£¿£¿o %A Neves %A Maria Helena de Moura %J DELTA: Documenta£¿£¿o de Estudos em Ling¨¹¨ªstica Te¨®rica e Aplicada %D 2010 %I Pontif¨ªcia Universidade Cat¨®lica de S?o Paulo - PUC-SP %R 10.1590/S0102-44502010000100004 %X the aim of this paper is to evaluate the acordo ortogr¨¢fico da l¨ªngua portuguesa within a historic context that continually demands simplification and unification to the orthographic fixations. the theoretical and methodological orientation is based on the metaorthography and the linguistic historiography directed towards the language orthographic issue. with this focus, a review of the portuguese language orthographic agreements is done, paying attention not to the details of the several changes, but to the directions that governed all these orthographic agreements, concluding with an evaluation of the historical validity of this new measure. %K orthographic agreement %K simplification %K unification %K linguistic policy. %U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0102-44502010000100004&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en