Comunidades lingüísticas e identidades colectivas minorizadas: de la protección y del reconocimiento a los derechos culturales

Abstract

The reorganization intercultural pluralism in Latin America is still at an early stage, so it makes sense to imagine that the transitions must experience the multicultural and multilingual existing structures and the transformations that remain ahead. To that end, this paper explores meanings and actions arising from language policies past and present, in order to trace possible paradigmatic changes in the design, evaluation and regulation of the historical role of languages, communication practices and ideologies on etnodiversidad in Latin America and Mexico. One of the most visible aspect in the current language policy in Latin America has to do with the democratization of jurisprudence on the protection and recognition of ethnic and linguistic diversity of indigenous peoples. Perhaps the most noticeable change is that at present the public about this phenomenon has left the Indian space officials and universities to become legal rights involving the presence and function of languages in education, administration and media in particular, overcoming discriminatory practices. The society itself has become a huge market where there are symbolic and ideological competing proposals, which will have to win adherents for solidarity, multiculturalism and pluralism. It is the challenge of existing policies that follow the paradigm of the linguistic and cultural rights.