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In:Linguistic Landscape in the Spanish-speaking World
Edited by Patricia Gubitosi and Michelle F. Ramos Pellicia
[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics 35] 2021
► pp. 159–182

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Chapter 6
Armed conflict and resistance in indigenous Colombia

The linguistic landscape of Toribío (Cauca)

 | Università degli Studi di Milano
Published online: 29 July 2021
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https://doi.org/10.1075/ihll.35.06fer
Abstract
The present proposal is to analyze the linguistic landscape of the municipality of Toribío (Colombia) as a means of testimony of the autonomous indigenous resistance against the violence suffered by the Nasa communities during the Colombian Conflict. The methodological approach proposed is based on the cultural analysis of the units from their context referent to social tensions, with an emphasis on its “meaning-making” (Ivkovic & Arfin, 2019) value. This will also rely on palabrandar, a category of the Nasa epistemology that means the ability to “walk the word” (Almendra, 2017, p. 73) so that it may be a transformative path and action of the community environment.
Article outline
  • Introduction: Writing in the territory to face war
  • Linguistic landscape and muralism in Latin America: State of the art and theoretical framework
  • Methodology
  • Results of the analysis
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
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