The CLACLS Summer Travel Fellowship funding allowed me to reach key stakeholders within Chile’s language market. As my research involves an analysis of a broad spectrum of linguistic ideologies, being in Santiago helped me focus on a close, detailed observation of phenomena. My preliminary findings consisted on a complex weaving of emerging political discourses about language, which relate to the emergence of a Mapuche national identity, and an increased valorization of Chilean Spanish. This research is key for developing a profile of language communities in Chile from the critical perspective of glottopolitical studies, which is an innovative approach toward sociolinguistics in the Latin American context.