Panhispanismo e hispanofonía: breve historia de dos ideologías siamesas [Panhispanism and hispanofonía: brief history of siamese ideologies]

Authors

  • José Del Valle City University of New York (CUNY) Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1558/sols.v5i3.465

Keywords:

panhispanism, linguistic nationalism, language-ideological debates

Abstract

In this article, I review the language’s development as an instrument of political action from the time of Spain’s colonial expansion and the post-independence period – in which various nation-building projects were undertaken – through the more recent processes of regional integration. More precisely I focus on panhispanism and the linguistic ideology – hispanofonía – in which it has attempted to construct a culturally, economically, and politically operative community.

Author Biography

  • José Del Valle, City University of New York (CUNY)
    José del Valle is Professor of Hispanic Linguistics at The Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY). He is the author of El trueque s/x en español antiguo. Aproximaciones teóricas (Max Niemeyer, 1996) and co-editor of The Battle Over Spanish Between 1800 and 2000: Language Ideologies and Hispanic Intellectuals (Routledge, 2002), which studies the construction of national and pan-Hispanic identities in Spain and Latin America. In La lengua, ¿patria común? (Vervuert, 2007) del Valle and his collaborators discuss, from a language-ideological perspective, the contemporary politics of Panhispanism. In 2010 he received the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. He is currently editing A political history of Spanish: the making of a language for Cambridge University Press.

Published

2012-10-21

How to Cite

Del Valle, J. (2012). Panhispanismo e hispanofonía: breve historia de dos ideologías siamesas [Panhispanism and hispanofonía: brief history of siamese ideologies]. Sociolinguistic Studies, 5(3), 465-484. https://doi.org/10.1558/sols.v5i3.465