Desplazamiento lingüístico y revitalización

«Imaginen a un hombre que conocía tan bien la música que incluso muerto podía reproducir las notas musicales en su cabeza, y desde la marginalidad del sepulcro al cual había sido reducido atinar a maravillarse por lo que su corazón le decíaque era simplemente música, y ante los ojos del mundo entero arte».

This sociophonetic study investigates the language of Andalusian politicians in the Spanish government between 1923 and 2011. Thanks to a quantitative analysis that reveals processes of convergence and divergence between Andalusian and central-peninsular Spanish throughout the century, it formulates unprecedented conclusions on the behavior of the Andalusian variety outside of its borders in educated speakers and formal communication contexts.

Hay palabras que por su grafía o pronunciación resultan extrañas, hay otras que son raras por su significado o por los cambios o usos curiosos que se han hecho de ellas. Esta recopilación de historia, leyenda y anécdotas sobre las palabras más inusuales p

Housed in the former 16th-century convent of Santo Domingo church, now the Regional Museum of Oaxaca, Mexico, is an important collection of textiles representing the area’s indigenous cultures. The collection includes a wealth of exquisitely made traditional weavings, many that are now considered rare. The Unbroken Thread: Conserving the Textile Traditions of Oaxaca details a joint project of the Getty Conservation Institute and the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) of Mexico to conserve the collection and to document current use of textile traditions in daily life and...