An Early Controversy about the Polycentrism of Spanish Language (1929-1931): The Case of the Latin American Film Industry

Abstract

This research deals with the historical study of the linguistic attitudes underlying the controversy that originated in the beginning of sound films (1929-1931) about the pronunciation of spoken films in Spanish. Until now, this topic has been studied by film historians, but it has not been treated in depth from a linguistic perspective, so the purpose of this work is to make an interdisciplinary contribution that allows us to understand the meaning and repercussion of this early controversy in the process of recognition of the Latin American pronunciation of the Spanish language held in Madrid in April 1956