Abstract

ENNIS, Juan Antonio  and  TOSCANO Y GARCIA, Guillermo. La lengua en disputa: los debates en la prensa escrita y una historia de la lengua para el siglo XXI. Olivar [online]. 2019, vol.19, n.29, pp.45-45. ISSN 1852-4478.  http://dx.doi.org/https://doi.org/10.24215/18524478e045.

In this paper I analyze the survey carried out by the Argentine newspaper Crítica in 1927 on the possible existence of an Argentine language. The hypothesis I put forward here is that the referred survey functions as an indicator of the process of forming a scientific field for linguistic studies, operating since 1922 with the creation of the Institute of Philology at the University of Buenos Aires. I first seek to reconstruct and analyze the positions established by the participants in the survey, organized by the newspaper into two groups: non-professional interventions in the first place and then professional ones. Based on the above, I conclude that the degree of professionalization is not a good predictor of the type of intervention in the debate. Also, I conclude that the differences between both groups seem to be linked to the argumentative formats by which they opt in and to the degree of autonomy with which they conceive the problem delimited by the survey: as essentially a linguistic or a literary one.

Keywords : Crítica; Survey; National language; Amado Alonso; Américo Castro.

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