Política, gramática y enseñanza del español en los últimos años de la Nueva España y principios del México independiente: una aproximación desde la prensa periódica

Abstract

After Mexican Independence, the new social order also required discussing the drift that the language of its new citizens would take, one of the few inheritances that was not willing to give up. For this, the legislative powers should talk about how they would designate their communication instrument and about how it should be taught in schools. The discussions around the language and its political drift was the subject of controversy in the first years of Independence, which was fully reflected in the Mexican newspapers. This study aims to account for the main discussions around the language and its teaching in the main Mexican public opinion media in the first decades of the 19th century, as well as to offer an overview of the antecedents of this situation since the beginning of the press of the Nueva Espana in the 18th century