This article develops an analysis of the process of institutionalisation of Linguistics in higher education in the province of Santa Cruz, Argentina, during the period 1983-2016. We study the teaching function (institutional programmes and minimum contents such as the subjects Discourse Analysis and Production and Academic Literacy) and the research function (history of the agents and of a project based at the National University of Southern Patagonia), in whose analysis we question the trajectories and links between different agents in order to think about their impact on the consolidation of Linguistics in the periphery of Santa Cruz and at national level. To do so, we appeal to theoretical and methodological tools from the fields of glotopolitics (Narvaja de Arnoux, 2016; Del Valle, 2016), institutionalisation (Gerbaudo, 2014; Sapiro, 2013) and discourse analysis from a materialist pe...