Politics, grammar and teaching of Spanish in the last years of ‘Nueva España’ and the beginnings of independent Mexico: an approach from the periodic press
After Mexican Independence, the new social order also required discussing the drift that the language of its new citizens would take, one of the few inheritances that was not willing to give up. For this, the legislative powers should talk about how they would designate their communication instrument and about how it should be taught in schools. The discussions around the language and its political drift was the subject of controversy in the first years of Independence, which was fully reflected in the Mexican newspapers. This study aims to account for the main discussions around the language and its teaching in the main Mexican public opinion media in the first decades of the 19th century, as well as to offer an overview of the antecedents of this situation since the beginning of the press of the Nueva España in the 18th century.
Keywords:
Language planning and policy, Linguistic historiography, Press, 18th and 19th centuries
Author Biography
Manuel Rivas Zancarrón, Universidad de Cádiz
Para correspondencia, dirigirse a: Manuel Rivas Zancarrón (manuel.rivas@uca.es), Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Área de Lengua Española, Avda. Dr. Gómez Ulla, s/n, 11003, Cádiz, España. ORCID 0000-0002-0450-9344.
Rivas Zancarrón, M. (2021). Politics, grammar and teaching of Spanish in the last years of ‘Nueva España’ and the beginnings of independent Mexico: an approach from the periodic press. Boletín De Filología, 56(1), pp. 113–170. Retrieved from https://revistaliteratura.uchile.cl/index.php/BDF/article/view/64201
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