La lengua como lugar de memoria (y olvido) : reflexión glotopolítica sobre el español y su historia

The history of Spanish as a discipline has played a political role in Spain´s historical development. What is the relation between memory and forgetting, on one hand, and language history writing on the other

Monoglossic policies for a heteroglossic culture: misinterpreted multilingualism in Modern Galicia

This article critically discusses the representations of language that, since the 1980s, have been informing language policy in Galicia. Data from Galicia´s Sociolinguisic Map are re-analyzed and an argument is made that current language policies are grounded in a misinterpretation of how speakers map language on to identity

Total Spanish: The Politics of a Pan-Hispanic Grammar

This article presents an analysis of the 2010 grammar of Spanish jointly published by Spain´s language academy and the Association of Academies of the Spanish Language. It places this grammatical project in the context of Spain´s geopolitical interests in Latin America

Ways of seeing language in nineteenth-century Galicia, Spain

This article discusses a language-ideological debate surrounding Galician between two Spanish intellectuals – one Andalusian, Juan Valera, and one Galician, Manuel Murguía – who clashed on the desirability of the literary cultivation of the language. This encounter is framed as a language ideological debate and interpreted in the context of Spain’s late nineteenth-century politics of regional and national identity

Transnational Languages: Beyond Nation and Empire? An Introduction

This article discusses changes in the conditions under which linguistic repertoires are conceptualized as nationalist paradigms come to co-exist with post-nationalist ones. It discusses the persistence and demise of linguistic nationalism, linguistic imperialism and linguistic commodification

Sobre la iconografía de San Cirilo de Alejandría en el concilio de Éfeso de Francisco Meneses Osorio

La pintura de Francisco Meneses Osorio representa de forma emblemática el Concilio de Éfeso del 431 en el que Cirilo de Alejandría fue protagonista principal. En este concilio se enfrentaron dos bandos, el de Cirilo que defendía la denominación de María como Theotokos o Madre de Dios y los de Nestorio que prefería llamarla Madre de Cristo, triunfando el patriarca de Alejandría. Pero el tema principal no es teológico sino una defensa de la antigüedad de la Orden del Carmen que había sido duramente discutida durante todo el siglo XVII, en la que negaba la pertenencia de Cirilo de Alejandría a la misma.The painting of Francisco Meneses Osorio represents in emblematic form the Council at Ephesus in 431 in which Cyril of Alexandria was the main protagonist. In this council faced two sides, the one of Cyril that defended the denomination of Mary like Theotokos or Mother of God and those of Nestorius whom they preferred to call her Mother of Christ, prevailing the patriarch of Alexandria. But the main subject is not theological but a defence of the antiquity of the order of the Carmelo that hard had been discussed 17th century throughout, in that denied the property of Cyril from Alexandria to the same one

Marcas y Bebidas Alcohólicas

Fragmento del libro "Espejo de bebidas alcohólicas", en curso de elaboración

Gibraltar and the "Brexit" – New Scenarios within a Historic Dispute. A Proposal.

The unexpected outcome of the United Kingdom’s ‘Brexit’ referendum on leaving the European Union may have historic and even tragic consequences for Gibraltar, since it necessarily entails both a reconsideration of the status of Gibraltar and changes in Spain’s perspective on a solution to the dispute. Following Brexit, negotiations on the UK’s withdrawal from the EU will not only pave the way for a new European and international legal framework, but will also create an opportunity for Spain to redefine its relationship with Gibraltar, offering the possibility of new approaches to resolve this historic dispute. Indeed, the obligation to negotiate a UK withdrawal from the EU will compel Gibraltar to redefine its European legal status, regardless of whether it remains within or outside EU law. This places Gibraltar in the very uncomfortable position of being forced to seek to negotiate a new arrangement within the EU legal framework; unquestionably the framework of greatest practical daily application, together with two other international legal frameworks, namely the Treaty of Utrecht and the UN ’doctrine’ about the decolonization of Gibraltar