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Southern Peruvian Quechua language planning and politics in historical perspective

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ID2901792
AutoresBruce Mannheim (0000-0001-5388-6077, University of Michigan, autor de correspondencia)
Año1984
Volumen13
Número3
Páginas291-309
Fecha de publicación1984-09-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaLanguage in Society (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0047-4045 • E-ISSN: 1469-8013
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0047404500010514
OpenAlexW2094078564
IdiomaES
Citas recibidas24
Referencias citadas19

This paper sketches Spanish colonial policies toward Southern Peruvian Quechua in order to identify long-term trends and constants. I emphasize the following conjunctures in the debate on the status of the indigenous languages: (1) the simultaneous efforts to restrict the inroads of bilingualism in the legal and political domain and to encourage bilingualism among local headmen so as to facilitate indirect rule in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries; (2) the debate as to the role of the vernacular in religious education and missionary work in the same period, a debate in which the position favoring use of the vernacular held out for a time against calls for forced liquidation of the indigenous languages; (3) the ascendancy of the position calling for liquidation in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries; and (4) the role of Southern Peruvian Quechua as a nationalist emblem during the eighteenth century.These conjunctures have considerable relevance today. Differences in vocabulary and ideological justification have obscured the continuity between colonial and modern language policy. The issues debated, the limits of the alternatives proposed as solutions, and even the practical efforts carried out on behalf of alternative policies, have been surprisingly perdurable. For four and a half centuries the "Andean language debate," the issues and terms of language policy, have continued to have at their center the question of whether or not the Quechua have a right to exist as a separate community. (Language policy, colonialism, South America, Quechua

Colonialism · Diglossia · Ethnology · Ideology · Indigenous · Language policy · Linguistics · Neuroscience of multilingualism · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Vernacular · Cultural and political discourse analysis · History · Latin American history and culture · Law · Philosophy · Spanish Linguistics and Language Studies