Academic ideology in the 20th century corpus and the Andalusian diatopic variety

Abstract

In this work, based on Fernández Alcaide (2021), the presence of Andalusian texts and authors will be considered in the Spanish corpus produced by the Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) in the 20th century: CORDE and, partially, CREA. Because it was already possible to count and list the number of texts written by authors born in one of the eight provinces of the autonomous community, Andalucía, that collected such corpora, the aim is now to examine the titles and topics that appear and the most represented areas, in contrast to the absences. All of this, which originally sought to locate certain syntactic phenomena with such a diatopic characterization, a purpose with evident initial difficulties due to the oral nature of such a variety of Spanish, will serve on this occasion to assess what theoretical and ideological considerations of the RAE are detected in such a process, in comparison with the list of other previous works such as the Dictionary of Authorities. The results will serve, ultimately, to insist on the need for cooperative work to incorporate texts into the corpus to facilitate the empirical study of Andalusian speech.