Language ideologies on Spanish in Facebook pages and communities: language and social identity policies in contemporary Chile

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https://doi.org/10.31921/doxacom.n31a13

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Chilean Spanish, Spanish language Glottopolitics in Social Media, Language Ideologies Online, Social Media as Linguistic Corpora, Social Media Critical Sociolinguistics

Abstract

This paper addresses discourses about Spanish and its development in the Chilean context in the 21st century by analyzing exchanges about language on Facebook between 2009 and 2019. The study focused on Facebook communities and pages administered from Chile, in which language and identity policies are discussed in the Chilean context. Research led to the detection of phenomena such the minimization of language problems as relevant within Chile’s digital space; a scarce presence of ideological tropes of national pride; and, notably, the emergence of a renewal of the ideology around the fact that in Chile “people speak poorly” based on political and identity necessities. There were also detections of a revaluation of Chilean Spanish, especially among the lower classes. All this contrasts with a positive vision of the Mapuche or Mapudungun language, the most widely spoken native language in the country,and an expansion of its political reach.

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Author Biography

  • Gabriel Alvarado Pavez, City University of New York

    PhD Latin American, Iberian, and Latino Cultures, City University de New York –CUNY–
    (2020); Masters in Linguistics, University of Chile, and Lexicography ASALE, Madrid (2006). Linguist, lexicographer, translator and educator. He has taught Spanish and Hispanic Linguistics in Chile, Egypt (2004), and the US (2014-2020). Between 2006-2014 he collaborated in the production of Spanish language dictionaries with the Academia Chilena de la Lengua. The title of his PhD dissertation is “Glottopolitics of inequality: Ideologies of Mapudungun and Spanish in Chile”. Today he focuses his research in the fields of language ideologies in contemporary media. He also studies Mandarin Chinese and Classical Latin.

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Published

11-12-2020

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How to Cite

Alvarado Pavez, G. (2020). Language ideologies on Spanish in Facebook pages and communities: language and social identity policies in contemporary Chile. Doxa Comunicación. Interdisciplinary Journal of Communication Studies and Social Sciences, 31, 265-281. https://doi.org/10.31921/doxacom.n31a13
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