Entre la buena voluntad y la compulsión hegemónica: las implicaciones políticas del intercambio filológico latinoamericano-alemán
Valdez JR, Jansen S (2019)
Publication Type: Journal article, Review article
Publication year: 2019
Journal
Book Volume: 54
Pages Range: 351-371
Journal Issue: 2
DOI: 10.4067/s0718-93032019000200351
Abstract
The objective of this study is to critically examine the philological-ethnographic work of several European and Latin American researchers who previously contributed consciously or inadvertently to the exacerbation or resolution of political crises in Latin-America. Focusing on the Guatemalan case, we try to determine which philologist and ethnologists addressed the issue of language regulation and reflected on the political consequences of intervening in the linguistic cultures of certain regions. Utilizing methods of critical discourse analysis with a glottopolitical focus, we contrast the linguistic representations and ethnographic descriptions elaborated by several, mostly German, philologists who worked in Guatemala with those of Rodolfo Lenz regarding the creole spoken by an informant from Curaçao and popular speech in Chile. We try to juxtapose Lenz's ethnographically critical philology with the institutionalized philological practices. Our results show that the degrees of commitment between philologists and the social groups they studied varied depending on the degrees of hegemonic compulsion and detachment felt by these philologists and the value of a given language in the different contexts of social struggles.
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APA:
Valdez, J.R., & Jansen, S. (2019). Entre la buena voluntad y la compulsión hegemónica: las implicaciones políticas del intercambio filológico latinoamericano-alemán. Boletín de Filología , 54(2), 351-371. https://doi.org/10.4067/s0718-93032019000200351
MLA:
Valdez, Juan R., and Silke Jansen. "Entre la buena voluntad y la compulsión hegemónica: las implicaciones políticas del intercambio filológico latinoamericano-alemán." Boletín de Filología 54.2 (2019): 351-371.
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