¿Y el indígena mexicano también dice “How”? El uso del español indígena imitado por Lorenzo Córdova, Director del INE

Rachel Thorson Hernández

Vol. 1 No. 1 (2020), Artículos

Vol. 1 No. 1 (2020)

And the Mexican Indian Also Goes “How”? The Use of Mock Indigenous Spanish by Lorenzo Córdova, Director of the Mexican Electoral Commission

Artículos

Published 2020-01-31

Rachel Thorson Hernández⁺⁻

Rachel Thorson Hernández

Georgetown University

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Keywords

indexicality
indigeneity
mock language
public discourse
raciolinguistics

How to Cite

And the Mexican Indian Also Goes “How”? The Use of Mock Indigenous Spanish by Lorenzo Córdova, Director of the Mexican Electoral Commission. (2020). SEMAS, 1(1), 29-48. https://diseminaciones.uaq.mx/index.php/semas/article/view/382

Abstract

This paper describes the linguistic features used by a prominent Mexican public official to mock the Spanish of two Mexican indigenous leaders. It compares the features found in this performance of “Mock Indigenous Spanish” to the features of “Hollywood Injun English” speech, as well as to the actual speech of the indigenous leaders in question. This paper shows how features meant to
characterize speakers as disfluent, unsophisticated, and unintelligent are reproduced across languages and cultures.

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