Dinámicas territoriales y discursos sobre biodiversidad en una comunidad andina de Bolivia

Abstract

: Every people has many words to designate the properties of objects, activities and relationships that interest them or that have an important role in their lives. The amplitude of the vocabulary has to do with the context of life. This is called “cultural specificity”, which refers not only to special words that may pop up in a language and its culture, but also to the linguistic elaboration of ontological domains (LUQUE, 2004). This article aims at explaining what happens to the specialized language of potato diversity in an Andean community in the endemic zone and center of agrobiodiversity of Andean tubercules in Bolivia, where territorial dynamics suffer environmental, sociocultural and sociolinguistic change. The focus of the analysis is the interdependence that exists between text and context, a hallmark of ecosystemic linguistics.