This paper aims to sketch a critical reading of several texts by the German linguist who settled in Chile in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, Rodolfo Lenz, focusing on the way in which he worked on the settlement in Chile of the means and ends of philological research as modern linguistics had come to conceive them at the time. Thus, it shall be attempted to account for how the work of Lenz in order to give form to a proper space and audience for this discipline, the construction of an object based on the Spanish spoken in Chile, the Mapuche language in contact with it , foreign European languages and traditional narratives point to the political task of contributing to the affirmation of Chilean Spanish as a modern national language provided with all the elements that the device of modern language sciences envisaged for this purpose.
Keywords:
Rodolfo Lenz, history of Linguistics, economy, folklore, colonialism
Ennis, J. A. (2016). Rudolf Lenz: economies of language and politics of linguistics. Boletín De Filología, 51(1), 117–145. Retrieved from https://actabioethica.uchile.cl/index.php/BDF/article/view/42102
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