Aproximación a los campos semánticos de la sociedad en la lengua del Siglo de Oro

Sebastian Covarrubias’s Tesoro de la lengua castellana is analyzed in this paper from the perspective of social history studies, in an effort to build sematic fields around two opposing social categories: «the lowly people» and the nobility. Through analysis of the language itself we can shed light...

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Published inMélanges de la Casa de Velázquez Vol. 51; no. 1; pp. 181 - 201
Main Author Santiago Aragón Mateos
Format Journal Article
LanguageSpanish
Published Casa de Velázquez 01.04.2021
Subjects
Estates Society
Golden Age
Royal Academy
Sebastián de Covarrubias
semantic fields
Social History
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Summary:Sebastian Covarrubias’s Tesoro de la lengua castellana is analyzed in this paper from the perspective of social history studies, in an effort to build sematic fields around two opposing social categories: «the lowly people» and the nobility. Through analysis of the language itself we can shed light over the Estates society of the Old Regime, thus being able to explain to the modern reader the ideological representations by which sixteenth- century Spanish people understood society and social facts.
ISSN:0076-230X
2173-1306
DOI:10.4000/mcv.14209