Literalnesses and discussion group practices in America in the presence of the conquest and Spanish colonization

Abstract

The American native societies were first of all oral societies. Their memory, their guides of senses and meanings were generated, recreated and represented appealing, mostly to certain oral marks which help to cultivate the memory. The conquest and Spanish colonization will institute in America a specific literalness: the alphabetical writing. That will produce permanent processes of confrontation and readjustment of discussion group practices. In turn, very new expressive practices will be integrated and utilized at the expense of a countless of strategies of apprehension, production and reproduction. America will remain.