Chumleafel chi Anültuzugu Chile Mapu mew
The Role of Mapuzugun in the Chilean Constituent Process (2019-2022)
Keywords:
Language planning, glottopolitics, legal terminology, lexical innovation, minoritized languagesAbstract
This article reviews the role played by indigenous languages spoken in Chile in the first Chilean constituent process. Specifically, it analyzes the use of mapuzugun in three stages of this process: The social outbreak; the Constitutional Convention, and the drafting of the new Constitutional proposal. The analysis is aimed at identifying new social functions, describing new discourse types, and assessing how the language has changed to accomodate to these new communicative uses. The analysis shows that the contexts of use of mapuzugun have increased and also that the language has entered the public sphere. This transformed the country’s glottopolitical landscape, because for the first time mapuzugun cohabitated with other languages in an equal status. Furthermore, it was appointed as an oficial language of the Constituent Convention, a political body created by the Chilean State.
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