Telecosteño: Constructing a linguistic imaginary in popular Colombian soap operas

IF 2.3 2区 文学 Q1 COMMUNICATION
Padraic Michael Quinn
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Abstract

Linguistically, Colombia is divided into two macrovarieties of Spanish: cachaco (interior of the country) and costeño (from the coastal regions). This linguistic dichotomy can also be extended to the cultural ambit, with costeño varieties being negatively perceived in the Colombian sociolinguistic imaginary, which is in turn reflected in popular folk discourse on language. Thus, the present article explores how authenticity of the costeño macrodialect is constructed in Colombian telenovelas ‘soap operas’, examining the significance of the language ideologies behind these constructions.

Data is presented from a corpus of popular telenovelas, with findings showing that the depiction of this diverse macro-variety is often ‘exaggerated’ or ‘inauthentic’, supporting popular suggestions of misrepresentation, as well as previous findings on a cachaco narration of the Other. Importantly, this reflects wider sentiment toward costeño varieties in terms of how deeply engrained language ideologies are manifested within the country, shedding light on the social structures behind these ideologies, contributing to studies on the role of popular media in constructing and perpetuating ideologies on variation.

Telecosteño:在流行的哥伦比亚肥皂剧中构建语言想象
从语言上讲,哥伦比亚的西班牙语分为两大类:cachaco(国内)和costeño(沿海地区)。这种语言的二分法也可以扩展到文化领域,在哥伦比亚的社会语言学想象中,costeño品种被消极地看待,这反过来又反映在流行的民间语言话语中。因此,本文探讨了costeño宏观方言的真实性是如何在哥伦比亚电视剧“肥皂剧”中构建的,并考察了这些结构背后的语言意识形态的意义。数据来自流行电视剧的语料库,研究结果表明,这种不同的宏观多样性的描述往往是“夸张的”或“不真实的”,支持了普遍的误读建议,以及之前关于他者的cachaco叙述的发现。重要的是,这反映了对costeño变体的更广泛的看法,即在国内表现出根深蒂固的语言意识形态,揭示了这些意识形态背后的社会结构,有助于研究大众媒体在构建和延续变异意识形态方面的作用。
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