Language ideologies, intervarietal conflict and their repercussions on language and society

The case of the Hispanic dialect complex

Bibliographic Data

ID20484897
AuthorsGodsuno Chela-Flores (University of Zulia , Maracaibo , Venezuela, corresponding author)
Year2017
Volume25
Issue1
Pages123-150
Publication date2017-11-27
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueDialectologia et Geolinguistica (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0942-4040 • E-ISSN: 1867-0903
PublisherWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1515/dialect-2017-0006
OpenAlexW2770980768
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited18

In this paper, a phase of language divinisation is posited as the deeply-rooted origin of the standard language/variety ideology, which devalues the nonstandard dialects thus causing a permanent sociolinguistic conflict. Present linguistic standardisation is seen as the form divinisation has taken in the course of the history of humankind and it is justified by the search of stability and functionality for organised speech communities, which is not objectionable as such for some aspects of social life. The sociolinguistic conflict emerges because the first stage of the process requires the selection of usually one variety (or more than one in some cases) out of the dialectal complex of any natural language, generally responding to class-related interests allied to power and prestige. It is evidently, an ideological issue. Our approach to this problem is based on data from the Spanish-speaking world, analysed mainly on a minimal unitary phonetological approach (MUPA) in search of different dialectal dimensions and parameters. MUPA is justified and possible because of the great cohesiveness of Spanish varieties. When attention is paid to this extensive linguistic dominion, one finds that the notion of the inevitability of the weakening of regional varieties has to be revised

Archaeology · Dominion · Group cohesiveness · Ideology · Language ideology · Linguistics · Political science · Politics · Prestige · Sociolinguistics · Sociology · Unitary state · Computer Science · Historical Linguistics and Language Studies · History · Law · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Philosophy · Spanish Linguistics and Language Studies

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