Es un mal castellano cuando decimos ‘su’: Language instruction, raciolinguistic ideologies and study abroad in Peru

Ideology, Indexicality, and the L2 Development of Sociolinguistic Perception During Study Abroad

“…The current study stems from a muti-year ethnographic fieldwork project that examined L2 Spanish learners' development of sociolinguistic competence during SA in Southern Peru (Grammon, 2018). This fieldwork was centered in the city of Cuzco, an international tourist hub that provides SA learners with language and cultural immersion in a multilingual context.…”

“…16 Issue 1 ( 2024) between these languages is evident in the variety of Andean Spanish spoken throughout Southern Peru which includes many linguistic forms that index a racialized Quechua-speaking identity (Escobar, 2011;Lipski, 1994). Prevalent language ideologies in Southern Peru position these features as evidence that L1 Quechua speakers are linguistically deviant and deficient regardless of their normative use by many L1 Spanish speakers (i.e., raciolinguistic ideologies; see Grammon, 2022Grammon, , 2024Kvietok Dueñas & Chaparro, 2023;Zavala & Back, 2017).…”

“…la, 'the') in periphrastic genitive constructions (e.g. su/la mamá de Eva, 'her/the mom of Eva; Eva's mom': see Grammon, 2022). Ultimately, Rita expressed confusion about why her hosts in Puerto Maldonado, Eva and Adolfo, used these forms when they did not know Quechua.…”

Deshaciendo la raciolingüística1

“…En cambio, debemos comprender el comercio transatlántico de esclavos, el colonialismo de los colonos blancos, y la explotación y desechabilidad de la mano de obra migrante que produjeron y siguen sosteniendo a Estados Unidos como parte de una reconfiguración global más amplia del mundo, que enmarcó a la europeidad como plenamente humana y a la no‐europeidad como menos que plenamente humana (Lowe, 2015; Wynter, 2003). Muchos académicos están rastreando con agudeza estas conexiones en todo el mundo, incluyendo África (Ndhlovu, 2019; Oostendorp, 2022), Europa (Cushing & Snell, en prensa; Khan & Gallego‐Balsà, 2021), América Latina (Grammon, 2022; Nascimiento Dos Santos & Windle, 2021) y Asia (Henry, 2020; Pak, 2023; Park, 2022). Estos esfuerzos por comprender el gobierno racial en diferentes contextos globales están relacionados con el punto de Golberg (2002) de que no debemos restringir la raza a “casos aparentemente excepcionales como la Alemania nazi o Sudáfrica o el sur segregacionista de Estados Unidos” (p. 233), sino más bien comprender la raza como “integral para la aparición, desarrollo y transformaciones (conceptuales, filosóficas, materiales) del Estado‐nación moderno” (p. 234).…”

Undoing raciolinguistics

“…Instead, we must understand how the trans‐Atlantic slave trade, White settler colonialism, and migrant labor exploitation and disposability that produced and continue to sustain the US emerged within a broader global reconfiguration of the world that framed Europeanness as fully human and non‐Europeanness as less than fully human (Lowe, 2015; Wynter, 2003). Many scholars are incisively tracing these connections throughout the world, including Africa (Ndhlovu, 2019; Oostendorp, 2022), Europe (Cushing & Snell, 2023; Khan & Gallego‐Balsà, 2021), Latin America (Grammon, 2022; Nascimiento Dos Santos & Windle, 2021), and Asia (Henry, 2020; Pak, 2023; Park, 2022). These efforts to understand racial governance across global contexts are linked to Goldberg's (2002) point that we must not restrict careful study of race to “seemingly exceptional cases like Nazi Germany or South Africa or the segregationist South in the USA” (p. 233), but rather understand race as “integral to the emergence, development, and transformations (conceptually, philosophically, materially) of the modern nation‐state” (p. 234).…”