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APoliticalHistoryofSpanish
TheMakingofaLanguage
Spanishisspokenasafirstlanguagebyalmost400millionpeopleinapprox-
imately sixty countries, and has been the subject of numerous political
processes and debates since it began to spread globally from Iberia in the
fifteenth century. A Political History of Spanish brings together a team of
expertstoanalyzethemetalinguisticoriginsofSpanishandevaluateitasa
discursivelyconstructedartifact–thatistosay,asalanguagewhichcontains
tracesofthesocietyinwhichitisproduced,andofthediscursivetraditions
thatareofteninvolvedandinvokedinitscreation.
This is a comprehensive and provocative new work which takes a fresh
lookatSpanishfromspecificpoliticalandhistoricalperspectives,combining
the traditional chronological organization of linguistic history and spatial
categoriessuchasIberia,LatinAmerica,andtheUS,whilstsimultaneously
identifyingthelimitsoftheseorganizationalprinciples.
jose´ delvalleisProfessorofHispanicLinguisticsattheGraduateCenter
ofTheCityUniversityofNewYork.In2010hereceivedtheFriedrichWilhelm
BesselResearchAwardfromtheAlexandervonHumboldtFoundationforhis
outstandingresearchrecord.
A Political History of Spanish
The Making of a Language
Editedby
Jose´ delValle
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EmblemoftheTongueandSword
Dosarmassonlalenguayelespada
Quesilasgobernamoscualconviene
Andanuestrapersonabienguardada
Ymilprovechossubuenusotiene.
Perocualquieradeellasdesmandada
Comodelacorduraseenagene
Enellocoysandiocausamuerte
Yenelcuerdoysagaztruecalasuerte
“Theswordandthetonguearetwoweapons
that,ifwehandlethemasweshould,
willensureoursecurity
andbringusgreatadvantage.
But,ifeitherescapesourcontrol,
asifrobbedofallgoodsense,
itwillbringdeathtolunaticsandfools
andillfortunetothewiseandsane.”
Contents
Listofcontributors pagex
Listoffiguresandtables xii
Acknowledgements xiii
PartI Theoreticalunderpinnings
1 Language,politicsandhistory:anintroductoryessay 3
jose´ del valle
PartII ThemakingofSpanish:Iberianperspectives
2 IntroductiontothemakingofSpanish:Iberianperspectives 23
alberto medina, jose´ del valle and
henrique monteagudo
3 TheprehistoryofwrittenSpanishandthethirteenth-century
nationalistzeitgeist 31
roger wright
4 Language,nationandempireinearlymodernIberia 44
miguel mart´ınez
5 Theseventeenth-centurydebateovertheoriginsofSpanish:
linksoflanguageideologytotheMoriscoquestion 61
kathryn a. woolard
6 Theinstitutionalizationoflanguageineighteenth-century
Spain 77
alberto medina
7 TheofficializationofSpanishinmid-nineteenth-century
Spain:theAcademy’sauthority 93
laura villa
vii
viii Contents
8 SpanishandotherlanguagesofSpainintheSecondRepublic 106
henrique monteagudo
PartIII ThemakingofSpanish:LatinAmericanand
Transatlanticperspectives
9 IntroductiontothemakingofSpanish:LatinAmericanand
Transatlanticperspectives 125
elvira narvaja de arnoux and jose´ del valle
10 Language,religionandunificationinearlycolonialPeru 135
paul firbas
11 GrammarandthestateintheSouthernConeinthe
nineteenthcentury 152
elvira narvaja de arnoux
12 ThepoliticsoflexicographyintheMexicanAcademyinthe
latenineteenthcentury 167
ba´rbara cifuentes
13 LanguageintheDominicanRepublic:betweenHispanism
andPanamericanism 182
juan r. valdez
14 Languagediversityandnationalunityinthe
historyofUruguay 197
graciela barrios
15 Languagedebatesandtheinstitutionalizationofphilologyin
Argentinainthefirsthalfofthetwentiethcentury 212
guillermo toscano y garc´ıa
16 LinguisticemancipationandtheacademiesoftheSpanish
languageinthetwentiethcentury:the1951turningpoint 229
jose´ del valle
PartIV ThemakingofSpanish:USperspectives
17 IntroductiontothemakingofSpanish:USperspectives 249
jose´ del valle and ofelia garc´ıa
18 Language,churchandstateinterritorialArizona 260
elise m. dubord
