Alfabetos para escribir y para luchar. Consideraciones sociopolíticas en torno a la falta de estandarización de la escritura en mapudungun
Alfabetos para escribir y para luchar. Consideraciones sociopolíticas en torno a la falta de estandarización de la escritura en mapudungun
Authors
Clavería Cruz, Alejandro
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Date
2018-03-09
Datos de publicación:
10.7770/CUHSO-V27N2-ART1187
Keywords
Alfabetos - Pueblo Mapuche - Ideologías lingüísticas - Mapudungún
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Abstract
La falta de estandarización escrita del mapudungun —la lengua del pueblo mapuche— se manifiesta primeramente en la existencia de diversos alfabetos, ninguno de los cuales ha logrado, hasta ahora, una preeminencia funcional y social clara. En torno a esta situación se ha generado un debate en el cual se confrontan posiciones, postulados, adhesiones y contraadhesiones por parte de diversos actores sociales involucrados. Se resumen y discuten aquí
algunas de las implicancias sociopolíticas de este debate, considerando tanto la dimensión declarativa de los fundamentos expresados para apoyar una u otra
de las propuestas alfabéticas, como también algunos ejemplos del uso efectivo que se da a los alfabetos en espacios y momentos concretos de interacción
social. Analizar a los alfabetos como herramientas de acción social y política, relevando el papel que las ideologías lingüísticas juegan aquí, permite arrojar algo de luz sobre la diversidad de la sociedad mapuche actual
The lack of a standardized orthography for Mapudungun, the language of the Mapuche people, is manifested principally by the existence of various alphabets, none of which has so far achieved clear functional and social pre-eminence. This situation has generated a debate in which different positions, postulates, loyalties and counter-loyalties are opposed to one another by the various social actors involved in the problem. Some of the socio-political implications of this debate are summarized and discussed, considering both the declarative dimension of the reasons expressed to support one or other of the proposed alphabets, and some examples of the effective use that is given to the alphabets in concrete spaces and moments of social interaction. Analyzing alphabets as tools of social and political action, highlighting the role played by linguistic ideologies, allows us to shed some light on the diversity of present Mapuche society
The lack of a standardized orthography for Mapudungun, the language of the Mapuche people, is manifested principally by the existence of various alphabets, none of which has so far achieved clear functional and social pre-eminence. This situation has generated a debate in which different positions, postulates, loyalties and counter-loyalties are opposed to one another by the various social actors involved in the problem. Some of the socio-political implications of this debate are summarized and discussed, considering both the declarative dimension of the reasons expressed to support one or other of the proposed alphabets, and some examples of the effective use that is given to the alphabets in concrete spaces and moments of social interaction. Analyzing alphabets as tools of social and political action, highlighting the role played by linguistic ideologies, allows us to shed some light on the diversity of present Mapuche society