This article examines the ideological and cultural implicances of Rodolfo Lenzs folklorical investigations. Our premise is that, from the notion of archive, his interest in folklorical research functioned as a strategy to refund and modernice an idea of nation through positivist means. In a ¿rst phase, the philologist scrutinized these materials searching for an authentically chilean kernel. Nevertheless, in a second stage, his innovations regarding language teaching made him relativize that approach and move to one based on folklor´s legitimacy. Our thesis is that from this point it is possible to draw a system for the national language, whose articulating space would be the school: this institution shapes a style of expression (derived from folklore) by establishing a dialogue, not without friction, between the popular language and the literary language
Keywords:
Rodolfo Lenz, linguistic ideologies, folklore, national language, Chilean condition
Concha Ferreccio, P. (2019). Transplants of the spirit: folklore and national language in Rodolfo Lenz. Boletín De Filología, 54(1), pp. 119–151. Retrieved from https://monitoraraucano.uchile.cl/index.php/BDF/article/view/53531
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