The "accommodation" in the sermons by Luis de Valdivia (1621)

Abstract

In order to facilitate the Mapuche people evangelization, Luis de Valdivia printed in 1621, in Valladolid, Sermón en lengua de Chile, a work "adapted to the capacity" of the indigenous. This "accommodation" corresponds to a differentiation process in which the listeners are constructed as others determined by their culture both in the scope of their beliefs as in their cognitive capacity for the discourse comprehension. This is demonstrated through the strategies deployed by the speaker and are reviewed in this paper.