Recuperando la lengua de herencia: un ciclo de atrición y revitalización del euskera en la diáspora vasca de Boise
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https://doi.org/10.37536/LYM.2.17.2025.2521Palabras clave:
hablantes de herencia, euskera, Boise, diáspora, atrición, revitalizaciónResumen
Este estudio examina la atrición y revitalización del euskera en la diáspora vasca de Boise (EE.UU.). Mediante un análisis temático cualitativo de entrevistas semi-estructuradas, se examina cómo la comunidad responde a la pérdida lingüística. Los resultados revelan que la atrición no es un final, sino un punto de bifurcación que conduce a la pérdida (cf. Fishman, 1972) o, como reacción, a la revitalización. Se argumenta que el activismo, motivado por el alto capital simbólico de la lengua (Bourdieu, 1991) y posibilitado por una red institucional (Gandarias Beldarrain, 2022), emerge como mecanismo central para revertir la pérdida. El estudio se suma a investigaciones que definen la competencia de los hablantes como un continuum dinámico (e.g., Lynch y Polinsky, 2018; Polinsky y Kagan, 2007; Silva-Corvalán, 1994), donde la identidad de hablante de herencia euskaldun ‘vascoparlante’ es una categoría abierta que se puede perder (atrición) o ganar (revitalización).
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