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The article, framed in the field of glotopolitics, studiesthe Argentinean children's magazine Pulgarcito. In a first instance, the paper describes social and material context of Pulgarcito’sappearance. Then, it reviews the properties of written-word circulation (stimulated by the modernization of means oftransportation and written-press) and new ways of reading. Itproves that the exploitation of the children ´s nichewould, within that period, begin a strategy, currently in force, to educate the childas a consumer. Moreover, it also wants to probe that the Argentine children ´s press of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries would play a central role in the dissemination of that childhood model. Finally, it analyzes the presence of subjectsthat educate the citizenship, the management of new forms of extra-scholar reading, and the presence of different linguistic norms.

La lengua en disputa: los debates en la prensa escrita y una historia de la lengua para el siglo XXI

Considering the press as a central platform for the public construction of legitimate language during the 19th century, the present work aims to further analyze two aspects closely linked with its development. On the one hand, it reviews the purist and censoring interventions on language before Bello’s peremptory public involvement (in Chile, from the press and the University; in London, from his famous magazines). On the other, by means of some exemplary cases, it attempts to enquire into the material impact of the printing press on the construction of meanings around language.

Todas las obras literarias que se publicaron en España entre los años 1938 y 1978 debieron someterse a la inspección de la censura franquista. Amparados por dos leyes de prensa sucesivas (una de 1938 a 1966 y otra de 1966 a 1978), los censores que trabajaban para el Ministerio de Información y Turismo –organismo responsable de este sistema de vigilancia y represión– se encargaban de leer los manuscritos que les enviaban las editoriales teniendo que emitir un informe al respecto, además de proponer una de las siguientes resoluciones: a) su autorización í­ntegra; b) su autorización con tachaduras, práctica muy común en tanto que se eliminaban las palabras y los pasajes considerados de mayor conflictividad; o c) su denegación, siendo esta más que probable si entendí­an que el texto en su totalidad constituí­a un ataque al dogma religioso, a la moral católica, a la Iglesia o a sus Ministros, al régimen, a sus instituciones y a sus colaboradores. Los expedientes de censura que contienen estos informes se encuentran, a disposición pública, en el Archivo General de la Administración, en Alcalá de Henares (Madrid). En el año 2018, animadas por el profesor Fernando Larraz y como punto de apoyo para basar nuestras respectivas investigaciones –directamente relacionadas con la censura editorial franquista–, elaboramos un cuestionario formado por varias preguntas que abarcaban diversos aspectos generales, si bien luego se concretaban para acercarse a la trayectoria literaria de cada autor de forma especí­fica. El objetivo principal era conocer de primera mano cómo vivieron los escritores esa problemática y cómo afectó a sus obras. Esos testimonios se configurarí­an así­ como una fuente oral para nuestros trabajos. Decidimos entonces entrevistarnos con autores que hubieran sufrido en sus trayectorias literarias el trato con la censura, dificultando que los lectores españoles pudieran leer sus textos tal y como fueron concebidos originalmente. Tras ponernos en contacto con ellos, tanto Antonio Ferres como Juan Mollá accedieron amablemente a entrevistarse con nosotras en persona en marzo del mismo año. Los dos, además de pertenecer a una misma franja generacional, comenzaron a publicar su obra narrativa en 1959 –Ferres con La piqueta y Mollá con Sueño de sombra (en colaboración con Ví­ctor Alperi)– y tuvieron que acogerse en sus inicios en el mundo literario a la primera ley de prensa franquista. Sus siguientes textos debieron someterse también a la Ley de Prensa e Imprenta de 1966, por lo que no pudieron ver la luz con total libertad hasta los años ochenta del siglo pasado.

Pedro Piñero y José Manuel Pedrosa nos ofrecen en este libro un exhaustivo análisis del Romance de la muerte del Maestre de Santiago a través de un recorrido por la literatura, la historia, el folklore y la antropologí­a que se extiende desde el siglo XIV hasta el presente y nos entrevera en narrativas múltiples y diversas.

The following paper analyzes a series of press articles on etymological issues, published by Argentine writer Leopoldo Lugones in La Nación from 1923 to 1925. It is an organic whole of sketches aimed at cultural and political intervention, allowing Lugones, on the one side, to go further with his philological project, first essayed in his 1913 conferences, later published in El Payador. On the other side, these notes anticipate the bigger project, his Diccionario etimológico del castellano usual, which he would publish in the pages of El monitor from 1930 on. With critical tools developed in the fields of glotopolitics, discourse analyses and literary studies, these notes –contemporary to the Ayacucho speech and the foundation of Buenos Aires’ Institute of Philology– shall be analyzed inserted in other textual series present in the same newspaper (Ricardo Rojas’ ‘eurindian’ notes, interventions by a professional philologist like Américo Castro, etc.), conceiving them at the same time within a broader discursive realm, as well as anchored in a historical momentum in which Lugones’ public figure becomes highly present. The main thesis in this paper is that Lugones’ etymological sketches represent a strong glotopolitical gesture, bounded to a homogeneous image of the Nation, every time that they, on the one side, legitimate a part of the native Latin American lexicon on the basis of lettered traditions taken for prestigious (Greek and Arab traditions), and on the other, they are bringing up an immunization process for language in face of those items stemming from Latin American indigenous cultures.

The article analyzes two series of texts that appeared in two Argentinean periodicals: La Carreta and La Prensa. The analysis observes, in particular, two relevant moments in terms of debates on the language: 1940-1941 in the case of La Carreta and 1952-1953 in the case of La Prensa. These are brief writings that reinsert, in two different conjunctures, elements of a formation that is present in the Argentine debates since the second third of the 19th century: the political-linguistic and institutional bond with Spain. The work frames the analysis of the two series delimited in a more general problematization: the relationship between language and sovereignty in the discourses produced in Argentina. In order to historicize and understand the processes of formation of this constitutive issue, a characterization of two different formations is presented: the vindication of the Hispanic legacy as an element of sovereignty against the Pan-American project of the United States; the vindication of national linguistic sovereignty against the Spanish government of the language. As the article shows, it is this second formation that produces effects in the texts of La Carreta (1940-1941) and La Prensa (1952-1953).

By the end of the 1930s, the Argentine publishing industry witnessed a process of international openness and momentum that is usually linked to the Spanish book crisis as a result of the Spanish Civil War, for which Buenos Aires became the main Spanish-speaking editorial center. Like many other Spanish intellectuals, Amado Alonso participated in this process of editorial growth, not only as a member of the founding group of the Losada publishing house and director of several of its collections, but also through his essay production as, for example, the series of three articles published in newspaper La Nación during August of 1940, where Alonso reflects on the Argentine publishing phenomenon and its scopes, especially in relation to the potential of the publishing industry as unifying agent of the language as a consequence of the increasing diffusion of Argentine books throughout the American continent. The aim of this paper is to analyze these articles by Amado Alonso, emphasizing those aspects in which his proposal of linguistic regulation for the Spanish-language publishing market links up with the economic factor, while still being close to the idea of ”‹”‹a unified language that could facilitate and consolidate the bookseller trade between Argentina and the rest of the Spanish-speaking nations.

Este volumen reúne los discursos inaugurales, las conferencias plenarias y semiplenarias y las exposiciones de panelistas del XI Congreso Argentino de Hispanistas que se llevó a cabo en San Salvador de Jujuy en mayo del año 2017.

In this paper I analyze the survey carried out by the Argentine newspaper Crí­tica in 1927 on the possible existence of an Argentine language. The hypothesis I put forward here is that the referred survey functions as an indicator of the process of forming a scientific field for linguistic studies, operating since 1922 with the creation of the Institute of Philology at the University of Buenos Aires. I first seek to reconstruct and analyze the positions established by the participants in the survey, organized by the newspaper into two groups: non-professional interventions in the first place and then professional ones. Based on the above, I conclude that the degree of professionalization is not a good predictor of the type of intervention in the debate. Also, I conclude that the differences between both groups seem to be linked to the argumentative formats by which they opt in and to the degree of autonomy with which they conceive the problem delimited by the survey: as essentially a linguistic or a literary one.