Discursive practices control in Spanish language

In: International journal of the sociology of language: IJSL, Band 2021, Heft 267-268, S. 143-152

Abstract

Abstract
Control mechanisms for written, spoken, and multimodal discursive practices are, in my view, a priority item on today's strategy agenda for a socially conscious approach to language in the peripheral countries of the global economic system. After describing and analyzing certain procedures for discursive regulation in Spanish language, and adopting the critical focus that glottopolitics provides, I zero in on the effects of this regulation and the subjectivities it shapes. Discursive restraints stem from several, often interconnected, sources: market dynamics, the search for greater productivity in the technologizing of the word, digital platforms, and as a condition for the approval of country loans by international economic organizations. The aim is to emphasize how discursive control reproduces the established social order and thus reinforces linguistic inequality.