Estudio de espacialidad del español rural de Santander (Colombia): contextualización teórica y conceptual

For decades the spatial-temporal relation was fundamental in theories that supported variability in historical linguistics, while downgrading the Euclidian, social, and perceptible spaces. By incorporating the concepts of space and spatiality to the study of language, the new human geography gave way to the development of geolinguistics, an interdisciplinary subject characterized by scientific eclecticism and the emphasis on processes and spatial structures of language. This paper examines the theoretical and conceptual referents of a study of the spatiality of Santander Spanish (Colombia), following the basic theoretical principles of geolinguistics. The theoretical and conceptual referents that constitute the focus of the present article include aspects related to the concepts of space and spatiality: the Euclidian, social, and perceptible space, as well as aspects related to the diffusion of linguistic phenomena: centers of articulation and dispersion, networks, and the nature and structure of the dispersion.