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Language, race and nationalism: Julio Saavedra Molina’s proposal for the emancipation of the Chilean language

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Vol. 57 No. 1 (2022)

Abstract

This article analyzes the teaching and study proposal of patriotic language developed by the educator and reformist Julio Saavedra, which rose as a way to articulate postulates from scientific linguistics with the nationalist movement’s interests during the early years of the XX century. The researched documents are approached from a glotopolitic perspective; this leads to the use of linguistic ideology as a guiding concept to give an account of the different interests behind each identified idea. I conclude the texts presented at the corpus show the joint action of the two main models of standardization, specifically through the predominance of the romantic model (given the association between language and national spirit) and the auxiliary role of the rationalist model (language as a tool for democratic convenience between members of a nation).

Keywords:

glottopolitics, language ideologies, standard language ideology, nationalism, ethnonationalism

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Juan Cifuentes Sandoval, Universidad de Chile

Para correspondencia, dirigirse a: Juan Cifuentes (jics94@gmail.com), Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades, Av. Capitán Ignacio Carrera Pinto 1025, Ñuñoa, Santiago, Chile.

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Cifuentes Sandoval, J. (2022). Language, race and nationalism: Julio Saavedra Molina’s proposal for the emancipation of the Chilean language. Boletín De Filología, 57(1), pp. 261–290. Retrieved from https://boletinfilologia.uchile.cl/index.php/BDF/article/view/67557
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