Processes of subjectivization and inclusive language

Abstract

In this paper, without wanting to deny the use of inclusive language's relevance, we propose a linguistic-discursive analysis of the resolutions issued by four Argentine universities that have accepted inclusive language in some of its forms and different types of written and oral academic productions. We aim to show that the discourse's meaning is not of a veritative nature or depends on the subjects' voluntary and intentional choices. Rather, the effects of meaning construct dialogically and argumentatively. In light of the dialogical approach to argumentation and polyphony, we propose that the resolutions mentioned above systematically expose an enunciation image caused by (semi-)dialogical discourse. Frameworks that must be recovered and refer to discursive practices that take the very use of language as an object and its correlation in social practices. At the same time, we show how in these dialogical responses, critical subjective positions remain materialized that, although diverse, give the subjects the illusion of being masters of their saying.