Nacionalismo, lenguaje e identidad colectiva

Abstract

This brief essay envisage the problem of nationalism and national identity, as a cultural process central to complex societies. National identity is not a monolithic or homogeneous domain -there is nothing as a unique identity common to all members of a Nation-State-. We rather find in a national community, territorially and politically framed, different conceptions, values and social representations that construct a plurality of senses of belonging. This plurality of values and social representations, of senses of belonging, is an expression of a diversity uses and appropriations of language in different social spheres. Do we face, in the present history, a refunctionalization and reinterpretation of nationalist cultures?