Abstract

NAVA GOMEZ, Guadalupe Nancy  and  ALEMAN MARTINEZ, Rosa María. Processes of Discursive legitimation between allopathic and traditional: The case of Tlahuica in the State of Mexico. Leng. [online]. 2020, vol.48, n.2, pp.369-393. ISSN 0120-3479.  https://doi.org/10.25100/lenguaje.v48i2.8580.

The article addresses processes of discursive legitimation of traditional and allopathic medicine practices from a linguistic anthropology framework. The main purpose of the study is to identify the rationale underlying these two modes of human experience: The objective-intellectual and the subjective-affective. This, with the aims of 1) re-evaluating traditional medicine through the reconstruction of its legitimation processes, 2) revitalizing knowledge associated with traditional medicine in Mexico.

In methodological terms, the study involves a semiotic analysis based on the theory of the production of signs, and a comparison of the structure and the relational systems of both logical and social codes. Results show that by tracing the legitimation processes of traditional medicine, groups in the process of recovering ancestral practices gain visibility which, in turn, works as support to highlight the need of revitalization and maintenance of Mexican indigenous languages.

Keywords : logical codes; social codes; language maintenance; linguistic revitalization.

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