“Limpia, fija y da esplendor”: Challenging the Symbolic Violence of the Royal Spanish Academy
“Limpia, fija y da esplendor”: Challenging the Symbolic Violence of the Royal Spanish Academy
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“Limpia, fija y da esplendor”：挑战西班牙皇家学院的象征性暴力
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10.2979/chiricu.1.2.04
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2017
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A. Zentella
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A. Zentella
摘要：美国是世界上第二大讲西班牙语的国家——人口超过 5000 万。与全球大约 4 亿其他讲西班牙语的人一样，美国讲西班牙语的人也受到西班牙皇家学院 (RAE)（西班牙语缩写 RAE）的支配。自 1713 年成立以来，RAE 的使命就是“清理、修复并赋予西班牙语辉煌”；但是，正如本文所明确指出的，在履行这一使命的过程中，RAE 制定了殖民治安做法，并延续了负面的刻板印象，这些做法共同构成了一种“象征性暴力”，其后果包括语言丧失、语言定性和暴力仇恨犯罪。本文回顾了作者和其他致力于社会正义及其与语言关系的学者所做的努力，他们成功挑战了 RAE 2013 年对“西班牙语”一词的定义——该定义得到了北美西班牙语学院 (ANLE) 的认可。 Zentella 采用人类政治语言分析，阐明了拉丁裔和拉丁裔的种族化是 RAE 纯粹主义的根源，并解释了为什么 RAE 的纯粹主义必须受到挑战。
Abstract:The United States is home to the second-largest group of Spanish speakers in the world—with over 50 million. Along with about 400 million other Spanish speakers throughout the globe, U.S. Spanish speakers have been subjected to the dictates of the Royal Spanish Academy, or RAE, as it is known by its Spanish acronym. The RAE’s mission, since its founding in 1713, has been to “clean, fix, and give splendor” to the Spanish language; but, as this article makes clear, in pursuing that mission the RAE has instituted colonial policing practices and has perpetuated negative stereotypes that, together, constitute a form of “symbolic violence” whose repercussions include language loss, linguistic profiling, and violent hate crimes. This article retraces the efforts of the author and other scholars who are committed to social justice and its relationship to language as they successfully challenged the RAE’s 2013 definition of the term espanglish—a definition endorsed by the North American Academy of the Spanish Language (ANLE). Employing anthropolitical linguistic analysis Zentella clarifies how the racialization of Latinas and Latinos is at the root of the RAE’s purism, and explains why the RAE’s purism must be challenged.