DOMINATED LANGUAGES IDEOLOGY AND LINGUISTIC VIOLENCE IN MAPUDUNGUN

Abstract

This article proposes elements for the development of a sociology of minority languages. It raises the need for a dialogue between the social sciences and linguistics for the characterization and the situation of linguistic dominance. For this, he proposes the complementarity between the perspectives of ideologies and
linguistic violence. In methodological terms, the article systematizes the literature on linguistic ideologies developed by Krotskity and Silverstein and the works of
Pierre Bourdieu on violence and linguistic habitus. Both conceptualizations are reviewed in the light of primary and secondary evidence on the situation of the
Mapuche language, Mapudungun, in Chile. The article concludes with a discussion on the sociological possibilities of a linguistic liberation of the indigenous and
Mapuche peoples.