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CARMEN MARTÍN CUADRADO
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Spain
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1838-3607
Vol 31 (2025), Articles
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15304/moenia.id9695
Submitted: 31-01-2024 Accepted: 23-01-2025 Published: 18-02-2025
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Abstract

The main purpose of this article is to analyze the ideological change that Mariano Barreto projects in his work Idioma y letras (1904). The author, belonging to the purist trend at first, progressively modifies his understanding of the language spoken in Nicaragua, and even confers a certain positive value to some aspects of its variety. After presenting the figure of the author and the context in which he publishes his work, both the preliminary pages and the interior of the body of the text are analyzed with the aim of identifying the author's linguistic attitudes at a relevant historical moment for the construction of the Central American Spanish.