Towards an anthology on the “American language”: the case of Horacio González
Based on the premise that nation-states in Latin America and the Caribbean were built on the basis of a system of multiple domination: capitalist, colonialist (including internally), classist, racist, heteropatriarchal, monocultural, monolingual and monoglossic, our long-range research project studi...
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| Format: | article |
| Status: | Published version |
| Publication Date: | 2025 |
| Country: | Brasil |
| Institution: | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp) |
| Repository: | Línguas e Instrumentos Linguísticos (Online) |
| Language: | Portuguese |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.periodicos.sbu.unicamp.br:article/8678780 |
| Online Access: | https://periodicos.sbu.unicamp.br/ojs/index.php/lil/article/view/8678780 |
| Access Level: | Open access |
| Keyword: | América Latina y el Caribe Hegemonía linguística Lengua americana Pensamiento crítico emancipatório Horacio González Latin America and the Caribbean Linguistic hegemony American language Critical emancipatory thinking |
| Summary: | Based on the premise that nation-states in Latin America and the Caribbean were built on the basis of a system of multiple domination: capitalist, colonialist (including internally), classist, racist, heteropatriarchal, monocultural, monolingual and monoglossic, our long-range research project studies the linguistic culture coming from what the historiography of the social sciences calls “Latin American and Caribbean emancipatory critical thought” throughout the 20th century and so far in the 21st century. The relevance of this archive lies in the fact that these intellectual traditions questioned, with greater or lesser force and from a marginal position in the world-system, the hegemonic paradigms and the inequality they entailed and, therefore, proposed alternative socio-political projects. Hence, the question of the linguistic dimension of their proposals is of (glotto)political interest. Moreover, in the current context of the strong advance of the right, it is necessary to rescue dissident plans that allow us to imagine another future and promote new ideas and practices. In particular, in this article we focus on the figure of the Argentine intellectual Horacio González, who throughout his theoretical production and political militancy forged a national imaginary and, by extension, a linguistic imaginary. For this purpose, from a glotopolitical approach, we analyze the conditions of production of a series of his texts and the argumentative plot that the author wields. We focus on the postulates that challenge the linguistic hegemony and dispute the reproduction of the dominant ideology in order to prefigure a profound social change that disrupts the established sociolinguistic order. In particular, in this article we focus on the figure of the Argentine intellectual Horacio González, who throughout his theoretical production and political militancy forged a national imaginary and, by extension, a linguistic imaginary. For this purpose, from a glotopolitical approach, we analyze the conditions of production of a series of his texts and the argumentative plot that the author wields. We focus on the postulates that challenge the linguistic hegemony and dispute the reproduction of the dominant ideology in order to prefigure a profound social change that disrupts the established sociolinguistic order. |
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