IDEOLOGY AND CULTURAL MOVEMENTS: A NOTE ON ITS INFLUENCE IN LINGUISTIC RESEARCH

Abstract

An overview over Latinamerican cultural movements and the way in which they were received in Spain shows that there was a process whereby progressively there has been a movement from a view where Spanish - speaking countries in America had to accept the cultural supremacy of Spain towards a more polycentric situation where little by little the autonomy of American Nations was accepted; this culminates currently in the concept of Panhispanism, which is the standard today, at least on paper. The goal of this article is to address this cultural process as it is instantiated in two aspects of grammatical research: dictionaries and grammars. We will explore how the linguistic activity of the Real Academia Española and the Asociación de Academias during the 20th and 21st centuries follows a path that replicates these cultural changes, always gravitating around the notions of unity, diversity a nd Panhispanism, which have been central in the recent history of Latinamerica.