“Jamás deja de ser entendido el orador que pronuncia criollamente”. La disputa por la lengua: la pronunciación como marca de identidad nacional

The objective of this article is to analyze the long polemic that surrounds pronunciation as a national identity mark, as some “hommes des lettres” maintained in the pages of the Diario de Mexico. Jacobo de Villaurrutia, editor and collaborator of the newspaper, was the most important voice that led the controversy toward a more open and less normative position.