1. LA LENGUA, LOS BICENTENARIOS Y LA ESTRATEGIA DEL ACOMPAÑAMIENTO.
- Author
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Valle, José del
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LANGUAGE policy , *SPANISH language , *IMPERIALISM , *PAN-Hispanism , *AUTONOMY & independence movements , *LEXICOLOGY ,SPANISH Royal Academy (Madrid, Spain) - Abstract
This paper examines the role of official institutions such as the Academies of the Spanish Language and the Instituto Cervantes in the creation of a Hispanic linguistic community, which is meant to represent a guarantee of cultural unity across the Atlantic after two hundred years of independence. This article highlights the project's faults: the neocolonialist aspects of its linguistic policy, and the submission of particular members of the Spanish American academic and social elites in these metropolitan-inspired initiatives. It also examines the economic logic behind such initiatives in the global market. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2010