Hablar lenguas indígenas hoy: Nuevos usos, nuevas formas de transmisión. Experiencias colaborativas en Corrientes, Chaco y Santiago del Estero. VirginiaUnamuno, CarolinaGandulfo, and HéctorAndreani (Eds.), Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires: Editorial Biblos. 2020. 375 pp. Paperback (9789876918398) 2080 ARS

TALLATTA, CECILIA

JOURNAL OF SOCIOLINGUISTICS (PRINT)

John Wiley & Sons Ltd

Año: 2022

1360-6441

The book Hablar lenguas indígenas hoy: nuevos usos, nuevas formas de transmisión. Experienciascolaborativas en Corrientes, Chaco y Santiago del Estero (Speaking Indigenous Languages Today: New Uses, New Modes of Transmission: Collaborative Experiences in Corrientes, Chaco and Santiago del Estero) is undoubtedly a great contribution to the sociolinguistic field of indigenous languages. Virginia Unamuno, Carolina Gandulfo and Héctor Andreani are the editors—and also the authors of some contributions—of this collective volume made up of 18 chapters. The chapters propose a dialogue between research experiences that arise in the context of the collective work that the authors have been carrying out in different parts of northern Argentina since 2013. The stories are located, specifically, in the provinces of Chaco, Corrientes and Santiago del Estero. The different stories that make up the book challenge the linguistic and political ideology ingrained in the mainstream common sense, which considers the Argentine territory as linguistically homogeneous. In the Introduction, Unamuno, Gandulfo and Andreani acknowledge that they face the challenge of accounting for the heterogeneity that characterizes bilingualism and bilingual speakers, thus confronting the idea that Argentina is a monolingual nation.