Una nueva mirada al mestizaje lingüístico en los Andes septentrionales

The main assumptions made by classical works on Media Lengua are reviewed on the basis of research developed in the last decade. Such assumptions have to do with the identity of Media Lengua speakers, the exclusively domestic use of this variety, and its emergence through process of lexical change. Supported by a pioneer study of language ideologies as the interface between language knowledge and use, this review seeks to understand the outcomes and process of language mixing as communicative strategies to exploit the bilingual repertoire, and thus closer to registers and styles than to self-contained language systems.