EL ‘NATIVOHABLANTISMO’ EN LA INVESTIGACIÓN DE LAS LENGUAS INDÍGENAS: EL CASO DEL MAPUDUNGUN EN CHILE

ABSTRACT In this paper I expand the notion of nativespeakerism (or ideology of the native speaker) and discuss its presence and implications in a few studies about the sociolinguistics of the Mapuche language in Chile. In these studies an assumption is made regarding the inherent advantages of the native speaker (NS) of an indigenous language as a researcher of complex sociolinguistic phenomena, such as language shift, that affect their own group. I argue that this type of nativespeakerism, rather than being a theoretical and methodological alternative for the conceptualization and study of so...