The Property of Language: Norm and Usage in the work of Ricardo Monner Sans

  • Esteban Lidgett Universidad de Buenos Aires

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.19137/anclajes-2018-2214

Keywords:

Ricardo Monner Sans, Linguistics historiography, Language-ideological debates, 19th and early 20th century, Argentine

Abstract

The question of purity in language has been a common topic in the fields of language ideological debates in the Spanish-speaking world. In this paper, we propose an analysis of the various conceptualizations on linguistic correctness in the work of Ricardo Monner Sans in order to elucidate the links between his linguistic theory and his position on language policy. In that sense, we assume that these conceptualizations should be analyzed as a consequence of a more general consideration about linguistic usage and purity. This consideration seeks a regulatory intervention on the linguistic practices of society based on philological knowledge. Thus, the dimension of usage is divided into a common usage which corresponds to the widespread use in community, and correct usage, that which has been legislated by philological knowledge and which is, for this reason, the criteria for linguistic correction on which the ideal of a homogeneous linguistic community is based.

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Author Biography

Esteban Lidgett, Universidad de Buenos Aires

Doctor por la Universidad de Buenos Aires en el área de Lingüística. Actualmente se desempeña como docente en la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras de la Universidad de Buenos Aires y en el Instituto de Lingüística de la misma facultad. Asimismo, es becario posdoctoral del CONICET. Su investigación, inscripta el marco teórico de la historiografía lingüística, aborda el desarrollo de la gramática como disciplina escolar en Argentina y sus implicancias en los debates ideológico-lingüísticos entre la segunda mitad del siglo XIX y la primera del XX. Participa como investigador en diversos proyectos acreditados y ha publicado artículos y capítulos de libros sobre su especialidad.

Published

2018-01-22

How to Cite

Lidgett, E. (2018). The Property of Language: Norm and Usage in the work of Ricardo Monner Sans. Anclajes , 22(1), 55–71. https://doi.org/10.19137/anclajes-2018-2214