Virginia Unamuno
Biographic Data
| ID | 1065319 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Virginia Unamuno |
| GIVEN NAMES | Virginia |
| FAMILY NAME | Unamuno |
| SIGNATURE | UNAMUNO V |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidad de Buenos Aires |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0283-2196 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Fighting is teaching
Reading
Debating translanguaging
In this article, we discuss the concept of translanguaging by showing how theoretically unhelpful it is to account for language dynamics among Indigenous speakers leading revitalization projects in the Southern Cone of Latin America. We show how clear-cut distinctions between Spanish and Indigenous languages are crucial for minority speakers’ socio-political struggles against Spanish cultural, political, and social hegemony. We open our discussio…
Welcome on board! Prefiguring knowledge production in the sociology of language
The everyday life of an academic journal is punctuated by a series of challenges, tasks, duties, and obligations. We spend most of our time reading papers, deciding who could or should review the work, convincing colleagues to agree to evaluate a piece, collecting comments, then pondering and synthesizing them, communicating the results to the authors, and dealing with bad news (when a paper has been rejected) and good news (when authors are happ…
The Transformation of Language Practices
Challenge from the margins
This paper explores the production of new meanings linked to written practices in the Wichi language in the Impenetrable Chaqueño (Argentina). Through collaborative ethnography examining different collective experiences and points of view, we study changes in writing in connection with changes in the access, distribution and availability of written practices in the Wichi language, and particularly in connection with social processes that position…
Los hacedores de la EIB
Sobre la base de un estudio etnográfico multisituado en la Provincia de Chaco, este artículo examina la forma en que desde diferentes discursos, posiciones y prácticas se construyen los sentidos de la Educación Intercultural Bilingüe (EIB) y se hace política en relación con las lenguas. Según argumentaré, la vaguedad en el tratamiento normativo de la EIB deja en manos de las escuelas la definición cotidiana de aspectos cruciales de la misma: sus …
Language dispute and social change in new multilingual institutions in Chaco, Argentina
Intercultural bilingual education (IBE) programmes in Latin America pose interesting questions for sociolinguistics, since their implementation interrogates the link between language and the nation resulting from the emergence of nation-states, but also from processes of decolonization. In the case of Argentina, a new legal framework and the recent implementation of new public policies at national and provincial levels have caused key social and …
The emergence of new linguistic repertoires among Barcelona's youth of Latin American origin
Since the end of the last century, more than 10% of students in Catalonia's schools are immigrants, mostly concentrated in areas of Catalonia where the population speaks Castilian in everyday life. Although these newcomers are educated in Catalan, the majority use diverse varieties of Spanish as their language of everyday communication. In the case of students from Latin America, it is possible to observe the emergence of a new repertoire that sh…
Hacer sociolingüística etnográfica en un mundo cambiante
Este volumen reúne un grupo de trabajos de jóvenes sociolingüistas del mundo hispano que reflexionan, a través de su experiencia investigadora, sobre la metodología etnográfica, sus retos y confines epistemológicos, así como la configuración de nuevas posibilidades y formas de investigación para el estudio situado de los usos lingüísticos en los contextos plurilingües y multiculturales del mundo actual. Si bien se trata de seis artículos con temá…
Entre iguales
Barcelona, a historically bilingual city, changed its demographic profile in the past few decades due to the arrival of a large number of immigrants. In such a context, it seemed relevant to study the socialisation procedures adopted by young newcomers to take part in sociolinguistic dynamics both in the city and at school. This meant investigating how children, as new members of the host society, learn to participate in monolingual, bilingual or…
Gestión del multilingüismo y docencia indígena para una educación intercultural bilingüe en la Argentina
poniendo en evidencia las formas en que los usos lingsticos participan en la lucha por recursos materiales as como las representaciones sociales e ideologas lingsticas que participan en la distribucin desigual de dichos recursos entre grupos y al mantenimiento de desigualdades sociales. Para ello, se analiza el caso de una poblacin -que llamamos El Algarrobo -en donde se forman docentes indgenas, los cuales son incorporados paulatinamente en las …
Multiple languages in one society
This article examines the way in which socially constructed notions of 'language', 'social cohesion' and 'diversity' create tensions within different educational arenas, particularly concerning educational policies developed at administrative levels and the subsequent interpretation of these policies in the classroom. Specifically, the article looks at the different production and reproduction processes of an official policy concerning 'language …
Dilemmas of linguistic policies and their study
The discourse marker a ver (Catalan, a veure) in teacher-student interaction
Debating translanguaging
In this article, we discuss the concept of translanguaging by showing how theoretically unhelpful it is to account for language dynamics among Indigenous speakers leading revitalization projects in the Southern Cone of Latin America. We show how clear-cut distinctions between Spanish and Indigenous languages are crucial for minority speakers’ socio-political struggles against Spanish cultural, political, and social hegemony. We open our discussio…
Challenge from the margins
This paper explores the production of new meanings linked to written practices in the Wichi language in the Impenetrable Chaqueño (Argentina). Through collaborative ethnography examining different collective experiences and points of view, we study changes in writing in connection with changes in the access, distribution and availability of written practices in the Wichi language, and particularly in connection with social processes that position…
Welcome on board! Prefiguring knowledge production in the sociology of language
The everyday life of an academic journal is punctuated by a series of challenges, tasks, duties, and obligations. We spend most of our time reading papers, deciding who could or should review the work, convincing colleagues to agree to evaluate a piece, collecting comments, then pondering and synthesizing them, communicating the results to the authors, and dealing with bad news (when a paper has been rejected) and good news (when authors are happ…
The discourse marker a ver (Catalan, a veure) in teacher-student interaction
Language dispute and social change in new multilingual institutions in Chaco, Argentina
Intercultural bilingual education (IBE) programmes in Latin America pose interesting questions for sociolinguistics, since their implementation interrogates the link between language and the nation resulting from the emergence of nation-states, but also from processes of decolonization. In the case of Argentina, a new legal framework and the recent implementation of new public policies at national and provincial levels have caused key social and …
Entre iguales
Barcelona, a historically bilingual city, changed its demographic profile in the past few decades due to the arrival of a large number of immigrants. In such a context, it seemed relevant to study the socialisation procedures adopted by young newcomers to take part in sociolinguistic dynamics both in the city and at school. This meant investigating how children, as new members of the host society, learn to participate in monolingual, bilingual or…
Gestión del multilingüismo y docencia indígena para una educación intercultural bilingüe en la Argentina
poniendo en evidencia las formas en que los usos lingsticos participan en la lucha por recursos materiales as como las representaciones sociales e ideologas lingsticas que participan en la distribucin desigual de dichos recursos entre grupos y al mantenimiento de desigualdades sociales. Para ello, se analiza el caso de una poblacin -que llamamos El Algarrobo -en donde se forman docentes indgenas, los cuales son incorporados paulatinamente en las …
Multiple languages in one society
This article examines the way in which socially constructed notions of 'language', 'social cohesion' and 'diversity' create tensions within different educational arenas, particularly concerning educational policies developed at administrative levels and the subsequent interpretation of these policies in the classroom. Specifically, the article looks at the different production and reproduction processes of an official policy concerning 'language …
The discourse marker a ver (Catalan, a veure) in teacher-student interaction
Dilemmas of linguistic policies and their study
Multiple languages in one society
This article examines the way in which socially constructed notions of 'language', 'social cohesion' and 'diversity' create tensions within different educational arenas, particularly concerning educational policies developed at administrative levels and the subsequent interpretation of these policies in the classroom. Specifically, the article looks at the different production and reproduction processes of an official policy concerning 'language …
Hacer sociolingüística etnográfica en un mundo cambiante
Este volumen reúne un grupo de trabajos de jóvenes sociolingüistas del mundo hispano que reflexionan, a través de su experiencia investigadora, sobre la metodología etnográfica, sus retos y confines epistemológicos, así como la configuración de nuevas posibilidades y formas de investigación para el estudio situado de los usos lingüísticos en los contextos plurilingües y multiculturales del mundo actual. Si bien se trata de seis artículos con temá…
Entre iguales
Barcelona, a historically bilingual city, changed its demographic profile in the past few decades due to the arrival of a large number of immigrants. In such a context, it seemed relevant to study the socialisation procedures adopted by young newcomers to take part in sociolinguistic dynamics both in the city and at school. This meant investigating how children, as new members of the host society, learn to participate in monolingual, bilingual or…
Gestión del multilingüismo y docencia indígena para una educación intercultural bilingüe en la Argentina
poniendo en evidencia las formas en que los usos lingsticos participan en la lucha por recursos materiales as como las representaciones sociales e ideologas lingsticas que participan en la distribucin desigual de dichos recursos entre grupos y al mantenimiento de desigualdades sociales. Para ello, se analiza el caso de una poblacin -que llamamos El Algarrobo -en donde se forman docentes indgenas, los cuales son incorporados paulatinamente en las …
The emergence of new linguistic repertoires among Barcelona's youth of Latin American origin
Since the end of the last century, more than 10% of students in Catalonia's schools are immigrants, mostly concentrated in areas of Catalonia where the population speaks Castilian in everyday life. Although these newcomers are educated in Catalan, the majority use diverse varieties of Spanish as their language of everyday communication. In the case of students from Latin America, it is possible to observe the emergence of a new repertoire that sh…
Language dispute and social change in new multilingual institutions in Chaco, Argentina
Intercultural bilingual education (IBE) programmes in Latin America pose interesting questions for sociolinguistics, since their implementation interrogates the link between language and the nation resulting from the emergence of nation-states, but also from processes of decolonization. In the case of Argentina, a new legal framework and the recent implementation of new public policies at national and provincial levels have caused key social and …
Los hacedores de la EIB
Sobre la base de un estudio etnográfico multisituado en la Provincia de Chaco, este artículo examina la forma en que desde diferentes discursos, posiciones y prácticas se construyen los sentidos de la Educación Intercultural Bilingüe (EIB) y se hace política en relación con las lenguas. Según argumentaré, la vaguedad en el tratamiento normativo de la EIB deja en manos de las escuelas la definición cotidiana de aspectos cruciales de la misma: sus …
Challenge from the margins
This paper explores the production of new meanings linked to written practices in the Wichi language in the Impenetrable Chaqueño (Argentina). Through collaborative ethnography examining different collective experiences and points of view, we study changes in writing in connection with changes in the access, distribution and availability of written practices in the Wichi language, and particularly in connection with social processes that position…
The Transformation of Language Practices
Debating translanguaging
In this article, we discuss the concept of translanguaging by showing how theoretically unhelpful it is to account for language dynamics among Indigenous speakers leading revitalization projects in the Southern Cone of Latin America. We show how clear-cut distinctions between Spanish and Indigenous languages are crucial for minority speakers’ socio-political struggles against Spanish cultural, political, and social hegemony. We open our discussio…
Welcome on board! Prefiguring knowledge production in the sociology of language
The everyday life of an academic journal is punctuated by a series of challenges, tasks, duties, and obligations. We spend most of our time reading papers, deciding who could or should review the work, convincing colleagues to agree to evaluate a piece, collecting comments, then pondering and synthesizing them, communicating the results to the authors, and dealing with bad news (when a paper has been rejected) and good news (when authors are happ…
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Fighting is teaching
Sociology (13 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (9 works) · Linguistics (8 works) · Second Language Learning and Teaching (7 works) · Indigenous Cultures and History (6 works) · Humanities (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Pedagogy (4 works) · Psychology (4 works)