Virginia Zavala
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 452381 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Virginia Zavala |
| PRENOMES | Virginia |
| SOBRENOME | Zavala |
| ASSINATURA | ZAVALA V |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3774-5922 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 32 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 50 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 31 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1999 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Insights from Sociolinguistics to Rethink Literacy as a Social Practice
This article aims to bring a theoretical contribution to the paradigm of literacy as a social practice by drawing on insights from sociolinguistics. My aim is to strengthen the literacy paradigm making it increasingly coherent. Specifically, I discuss two concepts from contemporary critical sociolinguistics, namely, language ideologies, understood as a broad category that mediates between language practice and context; and registers, reconceptual…
Disentangling (de)colonial teacher education in the Andes
Based on recent discussions on language and decoloniality and employing an ethnographic approach, this article examines a teacher education program in “primary intercultural education” at a public university in the Southern Peruvian Andes, in a context with a majority Quechua‐speaking population and youth with diverse bilingual trajectories. The goal of this article is to complexify the categories of coloniality and decoloniality of language by s…
La etnografía del lenguaje desde el entramado en línea/fuera de línea
La etnografía (y la etnografía del lenguaje en particular) constituye un enfoque creativo que se adapta a las nuevas condiciones que encuentra, como es el caso de la mediación digital. Si bien en los entornos digitales las premisas metodológicas del estudio etnográfico del lenguaje se van redefiniendo a partir de ciertos desafíos, también aparecen nuevas posibilidades, siempre en el marco de un compromiso teórico y analítico que supone estudiar d…
Decoloniality and language scholarship
Decoloniality and language scholarship - a critical intervention
In this article, we argue that the way decoloniality is invoked in sociolinguistics runs the risk of becoming a buzzword that is sometimes deployed with inadequate attention to how its conceptual and political premises need to be critically contextualized. We propose three interconnected challenges that critical applied/sociolinguists would need to address more seriously in order to avoid the depoliticization of the discussions around language an…
The economic reterritorialization of academic publishing and the politics of reading [Journal of Sociolinguistics]
Using Klein's observation of almost 35 years ago of the disturbed balance between production and reception of academic knowledge as a starting point, we reflect on some of the tensions related to current reading practices in academic publishing. Specifically, we discuss two tensions that we encounter and try to resolve in our role as editors: 1) the tension between standardization and creativity, and 2) the tension between monologue and dialogue.…
El quechua de los unos y de los otros
En el contexto de una iniciativa de difusión del quechua en la ciudad de Lima denominada Quechua para Todos, discutiré la creciente demanda para aprender quechua por parte de jóvenes estudiantes o profesionales, muchos de los cuales provienen de familias de migrantes quechuas de una clase media ascendente. A pesar de que estas intervenciones están visibilizando el quechua en la ciudad, están simultáneamente construyendo nuevas divisiones entre ti…
Manifesto
Buscamos discutir alguns pressupostos sobre o uso do inglês como "língua franca" em contextos acadêmico-científicos, identificar o impacto destes pressupostos nas trajetórias de produção e recepção de conhecimentos, e legitimar o uso de múltiplas línguas para a troca acadêmica transnacional. Propomos dez princípios: o uso do inglês quanto "língua franca" acadêmico-científica não sempre promove a inclusão; uma suposta "língua franca" acadêmicocien…
Youth, Quechua and neoliberalism in contemporary Perú
Framed within a critical and ethnographic approach to language policy, my study addresses the phenomenon of language commodification and the construction of neoliberal subjectivities in contemporary Perú. Specifically, I address a project of Quechua teaching in the city of Lima called Quechua para Todos, or Quechua for All, promoted by young Quechua activists developing interventions to change historically established imaginaries. Taking this pro…
Qichwasimirayku
Este libro estudia la política de generalización del quechua en Apurímac en el marco del proceso de descentralización y la elaboración del Proyecto Educativo Regional. Se analiza la emergencia de un nuevo discurso de la identidad apurimeña que tiene como referente principal el uso del quechua. Sin embargo, se discute también cómo este proceso no está al margen de prácticas excluyentes que terminan generando múltiples divisiones al interior de la …
Motoso y terruco”
En este artículo, analizamos usos de “motoso” y de “motoso terruco” en la política peruana, producidos en redes sociales (Twitter y Facebook), que dan cuenta de un proceso semiótico de inversión indexical en el funcionamiento de la ideología lingüística del motoseo. En este contexto, el habla “motosa” ya no se refiere a formas concretas de habla que se asocian a un grupo social, sino a prácticas y a discursos que producen un conocimiento metaprag…
Procesos y materialidad en el estudio del lenguaje en sociedad
In this brief essay, and making use of my own research in Peru, I raise two issues that I have been reflecting on throughout my career and that I believe constitute challenges in addressing language in society. The first refers to the importance of studying the processes of meaning production from an ethnographic perspective, and the second, to the centrality of articulating the production of these meanings with the material conditions of existen…
Derechos lingüísticos y lenguas originarias
En este artículo, discuto el paradigma de los derechos lingüísticos a la luz de la situación de las lenguas originarias en el contexto actual de América Latina. Sobre la base de mi investigación etnográfica en el Perú con jóvenes difusores del quechua en zonas urbanas, propongo repensar cinco problemáticas que se derivan del enfoque de derechos: 1) El vínculo entre lengua y territorio, 2) El vínculo entre lengua, cultura e identidad, 3) El derech…
Tactics of Intersubjectivity and Boundary Construction in Language Policy
Based on an ethnography of a language policy in the region of Apurímac in the Peruvian Andes, I analyze the boundaries that are constructed by a community of practice of Quechua “experts” in a context where resources in the indigenous language become more valuable. Although the declared wish is to build a regional “us,” Quechua experts end up establishing identity divisions between “us” and “them” through tactics of intersubjectivity based on eth…
De la lingüística a las aulas
Desde la nocin de mercado simblico y la visin de la prctica educativa como un instrumento de distincin social
Justicia sociolingüística para los tiempos de hoy
In this article, I will present the notion of sociolinguistic justice (Bucholtz et al.,2014) within the frame of the neoliberal tendency in contemporary education, especially in relation to Peru. On the one hand, I will discuss two signifiers of such a tendency and their link with the phenomenon of language: equal opportunities and educational quality for all. On the other hand, I will introduce the notion of sociolinguistic justice and the eleme…
Youth and the repoliticization of Quechua
In this article, I argue that Intercultural Bilingual Education (IBE) in Peru has turned into a depoliticized endeavor, fed by a modernist national frame and a positivist/ modernist linguistics ( García et al., 2017 ). Situating my discussion amid the context of discourses of IBE, I will focus on Quechua-speaking urban youth activists and the way they challenge three key issues that have been historically entrenched in the discourse of IBE and la…
Ideological Battles Over Quechua Literacy in Perú
This chapter addresses ideological battles over language and literacy by comparing two different communities of practice and generations of Quechua speakers in Peru through the study of a Teacher Training Program in Intercultural Bilingual Education. It examines how “Quechua experts”, some of whom work as teachers in the institution, reproduce discursive fields dominated by essentializing and ancestralizing ideologies of language and identity in …
Racialization and Language
Language as Social Practice
Although Peru’s Intercultural Bilingual Education (IBE) program has been attempting to pursue new directions, it still carries many ideologies and practices that have defined it since it started half a century ago. In this article, I discuss the way some of these ideologies and practices related to language are reproduced in a preservice teacher training program in one of the capital city’s private universities, which implements a national policy…
Correcting whose errors? The principle of error correction from an ethnographic lens
Labovian sociolinguistics constitutes an important paradigm that brings to the forefront issues of social justice in linguistics and asks about the debt the scholar has towards the community once s/he gets information from it. Nevertheless, as many scholars have discussed, and even though this paradigm has focused on changing society for the better, it has serious limitations on how it conceptualizes the relationship between language and society.…
An ancestral language to speak with the “Other”
Reflective endpiece
Desencuentros con la escritura
Este libro es producto de un trabajo etnográfico de siete meses en Umaca, una comunidad campesina de setenta familias localizada a veintitrés kilómetros de la ciudad de Andahuaylas. El trabajo de campo está concebido como una etnografía “multisituada” que intentó examinar diversos ángulos relacionados con la literacidad en una comunidad rural. Para esto, se realizó el estudio en diferentes espacios (Lima, Andahuaylas, Umaca) y en múltiples ámbito…
Ideologías sobre el quechua desde el poder
En este artículo presentaré las nociones de actitud y de ideología con el objetivo de analizar las ventajas de esta última para una perspectiva construccionista del lenguaje (Burr 2003, Kress 2001, Xu Shi 2005, Fairclough 1992, Bucholtz & Hall 2005). A lo largo del trabajo, discutiré cómo ambos conceptos presuponen miradas distintas con relación a su objeto de estudio, a la forma en que asumen la relación entre lenguaje y sociedad y a la metodolo…
Youth and the repoliticization of Quechua
In this article, I argue that Intercultural Bilingual Education (IBE) in Peru has turned into a depoliticized endeavor, fed by a modernist national frame and a positivist/ modernist linguistics ( García et al., 2017 ). Situating my discussion amid the context of discourses of IBE, I will focus on Quechua-speaking urban youth activists and the way they challenge three key issues that have been historically entrenched in the discourse of IBE and la…
Justicia sociolingüística para los tiempos de hoy
In this article, I will present the notion of sociolinguistic justice (Bucholtz et al.,2014) within the frame of the neoliberal tendency in contemporary education, especially in relation to Peru. On the one hand, I will discuss two signifiers of such a tendency and their link with the phenomenon of language: equal opportunities and educational quality for all. On the other hand, I will introduce the notion of sociolinguistic justice and the eleme…
Borrowing evidential functions from Quechua
An ancestral language to speak with the “Other”
Decir y Callar
Este libro aborda las inequidades que se construyen a partir de diferenciaciones en torno al lenguaje en la Universidad Nacional San Antonio de Abad en el Cusco y en la Universidad Nacional San Cristóbal de Huamanga en Ayacucho. Se estudian las problemáticas del motoseo, del uso del quechua y de la escritura académica para demostrar como todas ellas sirven de base para generar graves exclusiones en el entorno universitario
Derechos lingüísticos y lenguas originarias
En este artículo, discuto el paradigma de los derechos lingüísticos a la luz de la situación de las lenguas originarias en el contexto actual de América Latina. Sobre la base de mi investigación etnográfica en el Perú con jóvenes difusores del quechua en zonas urbanas, propongo repensar cinco problemáticas que se derivan del enfoque de derechos: 1) El vínculo entre lengua y territorio, 2) El vínculo entre lengua, cultura e identidad, 3) El derech…
Decoloniality and language scholarship - a critical intervention
In this article, we argue that the way decoloniality is invoked in sociolinguistics runs the risk of becoming a buzzword that is sometimes deployed with inadequate attention to how its conceptual and political premises need to be critically contextualized. We propose three interconnected challenges that critical applied/sociolinguists would need to address more seriously in order to avoid the depoliticization of the discussions around language an…
Motoso y terruco”
En este artículo, analizamos usos de “motoso” y de “motoso terruco” en la política peruana, producidos en redes sociales (Twitter y Facebook), que dan cuenta de un proceso semiótico de inversión indexical en el funcionamiento de la ideología lingüística del motoseo. En este contexto, el habla “motosa” ya no se refiere a formas concretas de habla que se asocian a un grupo social, sino a prácticas y a discursos que producen un conocimiento metaprag…
Tactics of Intersubjectivity and Boundary Construction in Language Policy
Based on an ethnography of a language policy in the region of Apurímac in the Peruvian Andes, I analyze the boundaries that are constructed by a community of practice of Quechua “experts” in a context where resources in the indigenous language become more valuable. Although the declared wish is to build a regional “us,” Quechua experts end up establishing identity divisions between “us” and “them” through tactics of intersubjectivity based on eth…
Discurso, género y etnicidad en una comunidad de shipibos en Lima
La migración de una población de shipibos desde la Amazonía a Lima, ha dado lugar a una recreación de sus relaciones de género y de su etnicidad. Ahora que son las «madres» quienes sostienen económicamente a sus familias en Lima, laidentidad shipiba de las mujeres ya no connota su condición subalterna, sino la posibilidad de acceso a una posición de poder. En este artículo analizamos el uso de la lengua vernácula como un recurso simbólico importa…
Youth, Quechua and neoliberalism in contemporary Perú
Framed within a critical and ethnographic approach to language policy, my study addresses the phenomenon of language commodification and the construction of neoliberal subjectivities in contemporary Perú. Specifically, I address a project of Quechua teaching in the city of Lima called Quechua para Todos, or Quechua for All, promoted by young Quechua activists developing interventions to change historically established imaginaries. Taking this pro…
Procesos y materialidad en el estudio del lenguaje en sociedad
In this brief essay, and making use of my own research in Peru, I raise two issues that I have been reflecting on throughout my career and that I believe constitute challenges in addressing language in society. The first refers to the importance of studying the processes of meaning production from an ethnographic perspective, and the second, to the centrality of articulating the production of these meanings with the material conditions of existen…
Correcting whose errors? The principle of error correction from an ethnographic lens
Labovian sociolinguistics constitutes an important paradigm that brings to the forefront issues of social justice in linguistics and asks about the debt the scholar has towards the community once s/he gets information from it. Nevertheless, as many scholars have discussed, and even though this paradigm has focused on changing society for the better, it has serious limitations on how it conceptualizes the relationship between language and society.…
Reconsideraciones en torno al español andino
No contiene resumen
Reconsideraciones en torno al español andino
No contiene resumen
Borrowing evidential functions from Quechua
(Des)encuentros con la escritura
Transferencia de funciones evidenciales del quechua
El artículo no presenta resumen
Discurso, género y etnicidad en una comunidad de shipibos en Lima
La migración de una población de shipibos desde la Amazonía a Lima, ha dado lugar a una recreación de sus relaciones de género y de su etnicidad. Ahora que son las «madres» quienes sostienen económicamente a sus familias en Lima, laidentidad shipiba de las mujeres ya no connota su condición subalterna, sino la posibilidad de acceso a una posición de poder. En este artículo analizamos el uso de la lengua vernácula como un recurso simbólico importa…
Mail that Feeds the Family
This paper contributes towards revealing the ‘gap’ that exists between what Peruvian literacy campaigns seek for ‘illiterates’ and what these ‘illiterates’ actually need. Although the discourse of recent governmental literacy programmes stresses the need to take into account the illiterates agency during the whole process, the neoliberal view of development and the idea of an autonomous model of literacy end up building an identity of the ‘litera…
Decir y Callar
Este libro aborda las inequidades que se construyen a partir de diferenciaciones en torno al lenguaje en la Universidad Nacional San Antonio de Abad en el Cusco y en la Universidad Nacional San Cristóbal de Huamanga en Ayacucho. Se estudian las problemáticas del motoseo, del uso del quechua y de la escritura académica para demostrar como todas ellas sirven de base para generar graves exclusiones en el entorno universitario
Reflective endpiece
An ancestral language to speak with the “Other”
Ideological Battles Over Quechua Literacy in Perú
This chapter addresses ideological battles over language and literacy by comparing two different communities of practice and generations of Quechua speakers in Peru through the study of a Teacher Training Program in Intercultural Bilingual Education. It examines how “Quechua experts”, some of whom work as teachers in the institution, reproduce discursive fields dominated by essentializing and ancestralizing ideologies of language and identity in …
Racialization and Language
Language as Social Practice
Although Peru’s Intercultural Bilingual Education (IBE) program has been attempting to pursue new directions, it still carries many ideologies and practices that have defined it since it started half a century ago. In this article, I discuss the way some of these ideologies and practices related to language are reproduced in a preservice teacher training program in one of the capital city’s private universities, which implements a national policy…
Correcting whose errors? The principle of error correction from an ethnographic lens
Labovian sociolinguistics constitutes an important paradigm that brings to the forefront issues of social justice in linguistics and asks about the debt the scholar has towards the community once s/he gets information from it. Nevertheless, as many scholars have discussed, and even though this paradigm has focused on changing society for the better, it has serious limitations on how it conceptualizes the relationship between language and society.…
Tactics of Intersubjectivity and Boundary Construction in Language Policy
Based on an ethnography of a language policy in the region of Apurímac in the Peruvian Andes, I analyze the boundaries that are constructed by a community of practice of Quechua “experts” in a context where resources in the indigenous language become more valuable. Although the declared wish is to build a regional “us,” Quechua experts end up establishing identity divisions between “us” and “them” through tactics of intersubjectivity based on eth…
De la lingüística a las aulas
Desde la nocin de mercado simblico y la visin de la prctica educativa como un instrumento de distincin social
Justicia sociolingüística para los tiempos de hoy
In this article, I will present the notion of sociolinguistic justice (Bucholtz et al.,2014) within the frame of the neoliberal tendency in contemporary education, especially in relation to Peru. On the one hand, I will discuss two signifiers of such a tendency and their link with the phenomenon of language: equal opportunities and educational quality for all. On the other hand, I will introduce the notion of sociolinguistic justice and the eleme…
Youth and the repoliticization of Quechua
In this article, I argue that Intercultural Bilingual Education (IBE) in Peru has turned into a depoliticized endeavor, fed by a modernist national frame and a positivist/ modernist linguistics ( García et al., 2017 ). Situating my discussion amid the context of discourses of IBE, I will focus on Quechua-speaking urban youth activists and the way they challenge three key issues that have been historically entrenched in the discourse of IBE and la…
Derechos lingüísticos y lenguas originarias
En este artículo, discuto el paradigma de los derechos lingüísticos a la luz de la situación de las lenguas originarias en el contexto actual de América Latina. Sobre la base de mi investigación etnográfica en el Perú con jóvenes difusores del quechua en zonas urbanas, propongo repensar cinco problemáticas que se derivan del enfoque de derechos: 1) El vínculo entre lengua y territorio, 2) El vínculo entre lengua, cultura e identidad, 3) El derech…
Procesos y materialidad en el estudio del lenguaje en sociedad
In this brief essay, and making use of my own research in Peru, I raise two issues that I have been reflecting on throughout my career and that I believe constitute challenges in addressing language in society. The first refers to the importance of studying the processes of meaning production from an ethnographic perspective, and the second, to the centrality of articulating the production of these meanings with the material conditions of existen…
Qichwasimirayku
Este libro estudia la política de generalización del quechua en Apurímac en el marco del proceso de descentralización y la elaboración del Proyecto Educativo Regional. Se analiza la emergencia de un nuevo discurso de la identidad apurimeña que tiene como referente principal el uso del quechua. Sin embargo, se discute también cómo este proceso no está al margen de prácticas excluyentes que terminan generando múltiples divisiones al interior de la …
Motoso y terruco”
En este artículo, analizamos usos de “motoso” y de “motoso terruco” en la política peruana, producidos en redes sociales (Twitter y Facebook), que dan cuenta de un proceso semiótico de inversión indexical en el funcionamiento de la ideología lingüística del motoseo. En este contexto, el habla “motosa” ya no se refiere a formas concretas de habla que se asocian a un grupo social, sino a prácticas y a discursos que producen un conocimiento metaprag…
El quechua de los unos y de los otros
En el contexto de una iniciativa de difusión del quechua en la ciudad de Lima denominada Quechua para Todos, discutiré la creciente demanda para aprender quechua por parte de jóvenes estudiantes o profesionales, muchos de los cuales provienen de familias de migrantes quechuas de una clase media ascendente. A pesar de que estas intervenciones están visibilizando el quechua en la ciudad, están simultáneamente construyendo nuevas divisiones entre ti…
Manifesto
Buscamos discutir alguns pressupostos sobre o uso do inglês como "língua franca" em contextos acadêmico-científicos, identificar o impacto destes pressupostos nas trajetórias de produção e recepção de conhecimentos, e legitimar o uso de múltiplas línguas para a troca acadêmica transnacional. Propomos dez princípios: o uso do inglês quanto "língua franca" acadêmico-científica não sempre promove a inclusão; uma suposta "língua franca" acadêmicocien…
Youth, Quechua and neoliberalism in contemporary Perú
Framed within a critical and ethnographic approach to language policy, my study addresses the phenomenon of language commodification and the construction of neoliberal subjectivities in contemporary Perú. Specifically, I address a project of Quechua teaching in the city of Lima called Quechua para Todos, or Quechua for All, promoted by young Quechua activists developing interventions to change historically established imaginaries. Taking this pro…
Desencuentros con la escritura
Este libro es producto de un trabajo etnográfico de siete meses en Umaca, una comunidad campesina de setenta familias localizada a veintitrés kilómetros de la ciudad de Andahuaylas. El trabajo de campo está concebido como una etnografía “multisituada” que intentó examinar diversos ángulos relacionados con la literacidad en una comunidad rural. Para esto, se realizó el estudio en diferentes espacios (Lima, Andahuaylas, Umaca) y en múltiples ámbito…
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