Ideología y discurso lingüístico: la Etnortografía como subdisciplina de la glotopolítica.

Numerous studies have focused on the (inevitable?) ideological bias present in lexicographic works --as approached by Ethnolexicography--and, to a lesser extent, in grammatical treatises --what is now called Ethnogrammar. Our aim in this paper is to contribute a review of an orthographic handbook to that ethnographic area, entitled Plan concéntrico de ortografía --written in the second half of the 20th c. by Nicasio H. García, an inspector of Primary Education, and published in Montevideo in 1947 (2nd edition). A number of textual features in this book reflect the specific political and socio-cultural context. In the present study, therefore, we put forward the creation of a new sub-discipline, akin to those already mentioned, which can be named Ethnorthography, also included in the super-ordinate Glotopolitics, the science that addresses the various ways in which society acts upon languages. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]