(2021). Lenguaje y territorio – parte II. WORD: Vol. 67, Special Issue Part 2: Language and Territory/Lenguaje y territorio, pp. 1-17.

En el proceso de formación y consolidación de los Estados nacionales, las gramáticas han intervenido construyendo las representaciones de lengua común del Estado, marcando las fronteras entre lo admitido y lo rechazado. Asimismo, han incidido sobre las subjetividades nacionales facilitando el reconocimiento, desde la lengua, de lo que integra la nación y de lo que queda fuera de ella. En este artículo

Tras discutir la noción meramente geográfica de ámbitos de uso de las distintas lenguas o variedades conforme a Lluís Aracil y Joshua Fishman, analizaremos de qué manera no solo la distribución territorial sino otros hechos, entre los que se destacan las iniciativas glotopolíticas, contribuyen al mantenimiento o al abandono de las lenguas en el caso de las comunidades inmigrantes. Para ello procuraremos

Pluricentrism presupposes the existence of several territories under the influence of different linguistic usage norms. From a glottopolitical perspective, focused on the conflicts and tensions involved in the control and understanding of the language as a social object, the normative dynamics of Spanish and Portuguese are compared, paying attention to the differences in the colonizing processes undertaken

Since the nineteenth century, the global diasporic community of Ladino (Judeo-Spanish) speakers has enjoyed a number of opportunities to reclaim a territory for itself (Spain, Portugal, Israel). Devoid of a specific geographical home, in the twenty-first century this community has resorted to the creation of Sephardi online communities, also conceptualized as “Digital Home-Lands” following Held (2010)

The experience of linguistic globalization and the communicative disorder it entails require a serious retooling of most basic units of linguistic analysis. The chaos and indeterminacy of contemporary flows of people, knowledge, texts, and commodities across social and geographical space challenge most sociolinguistic assumptions about social interactions. In particular, we can no longer assume that

(2020). Language and Territory – Part I. WORD: Vol. 66, Special Issue Part 1: Language and Territory/Lenguaje y territorio, pp. 239-254.

“Bilingualism” has long been a provocative term in Catalonia, where the concept is more often treated as ideology than as a description of sociolinguistic fact. I present a critical overview of controversies over bilingualism in Catalonia and focus on excavating the rationales underlying Catalanist anti-bilingual stances. This case exemplifies issues in the social contextualization, de-contextualization

While letters and popular narratives written by Italian immigrants have been analyzed with historical and sociolinguistic perspectives, only scant attention has been paid to texts written for potential emigrants. Based on a comparative study of selected guides produced for Italians emigrating to the Americas during mass migration between the 1880s and the 1920s, this paper evaluates some linguistic

Dictionaries of neologisms are quite complex to characterize; furthermore, there is little discussion on this issue in the literature and hardly any theoretical reflection on it. In this paper we claim that the specific nature of this kind of dictionaries lies, in part, in the peculiar character of the concept of neologism itself, and in part in the problems involved in lexicographic typologization

This paper investigates the lexicographic representation of state (S)/change of state (CS) polysemy of Paraguayan Guarani predicates as -pochy ‘be angry/become angry.’ To do this, a survey was conducted of seven dictionaries looking at the treatment of a sample of 20 polysemous predicates of different semantic classes. This involved asking whether, to what extent, and how the pattern is represented

En este artículo, discuto el paradigma de los derechos lingüísticos a la luz de la situación de las lenguas originarias en el contexto actual de América Latina. Sobre la base de mi investigación etnográfica en el Perú con jóvenes difusores del quechua en zonas urbanas, propongo repensar cinco problemáticas que se derivan del enfoque de derechos: 1) El vínculo entre lengua y territorio, 2) El vínculo