Abstract

LAURIA, Daniela. The new Linguistic Instruments of the Argentine Academy of Letters. Possibilities of Action, Scopes, Limits and Tensions in Relation to the Panhispanic Norm. Anu. let. lingüíst. filol. [online]. 2018, vol.6, n.1, pp.155-186.  Epub Dec 06, 2021. ISSN 2448-8224.  https://doi.org/10.19130/iifl.adel.6.1.2018.1480.

Two intertwined objectives guide this work. On the one hand, we review critically some statements about the reorganization of the norms of Spanish as a corollary of the prevailing global order. This is: the passage from monocentrism to pluricentrism and / or Panhispanism, normative models that, to a greater or lesser extent, are based on diversity and which, although occasionally presented as equivalent by the academies, are not at all already because they are based on divergent standard selection criteria. On the other hand, we are interested in investigating the scope of action and what the limits of responsibility of the corresponding academies in terms of the language regulation of their respective national varieties within the framework of Pan-Hispanic policy. For this, we will approach, from the glottopolitical point of view, the work develop in the last years by the Argentine Academy of Letters (AAL). The corpora are two of the most recent linguistic instruments published by the corporation: the Argentine Dictionary of Idiomatic Doubts (2011) and the Grammatical Dictionary of the Spanish Language. The Argentine norm (2014). Both are characterized, as their titles anticipate, by tightening the prescriptive reflection to the vernacular variety. We start from the idea that the AAL adopts the discourse of pluricentrism with the (supposed) will to translate it into his works. However, the results suggest that his position is in a dilemma. The struggle in the normative field between the “general” and the“particular”was exclusively addressed in the programmatic section of the materials. On the other hand, the macro and microstructure domains are, with few exceptions, limited in relation to the variants proposed by the Panhispanic norm, which, in turn, reproduces the relations of subalternization associated with negative representations towards the local variety, And generates, by extension, linguistic insecurity in the speakers. Thus, the policy implemented by the AAL is far removed from the specific linguistic practices of the Argentines and is functional to the maintenance of linguistic inequality, despite the fact, not less, that it subsists thanks to state funding through the Ministry of Science, Technology and Productive Innovation of the Nation.

Keywords : Argentine Academy of Letters; Linguistic Instruments,Argentinian Standard; Pluricentrism; Panhispanism.

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