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Diachronic research has often made use of metalinguistic remarks made by "prestigious" speakers as a way to reconstruct past stages of a given language. The question arises as to what point these remarks can be considered objective. This issue is addressed here by paying attention to the time span between 1940 and 1960 and to Emilio Lorenzo's remarks about the evolution of Sp. o sea. Lorenzo's intuitions can be (dis)confirmed by checking them against the rae CORDE corpus. Building on the conclusions extracted from o sea, the last part of this paper establishes some methodological remarks regarding the diachronic study of the 20th century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper we address the academic curriculum in architecture during the postwar period in Spain. The autarkical regime established in those years implied the isolation of Spanish architecture regarding international cultural trends. Simultaneously, the new political regime turned its back on the modern architecture of the previous decade, associated to some extent with the Republic. Alternatively, it promoted an architecture that inquired into the historical styles of the past. In this context, we take a look at the training received by two architects from Alicante at the Architecture School of Madrid during those years (1942-1953): Francisco Muñoz Llorens and Juan Antonio García Solera. Through their drawings and experiences, as well as based on specialized journal reviews, we can attain a better understanding of the academic curriculum followed by the Spanish architecture students of that period. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents the academic and ideological profile of Manuel Gamio, considered the father of modern anthropology in Mexico, and one of the main ideologues that marked the twentieth century indigenous, both in Mexico and Latin America. Gamio's influence was exercised not only in the discussion of ideas, but permeated into public policy and logic of building indigenous institutions orientation. Its formation is exposed in the stream of cultural relativism (or historical particularism) under the tutelage of american anthropologist Franz Boas and his innovations in the field of archeology, ethnography and anthropology in Mexico, and his decisive influence to leave behind the nineteenth-century paradigm "the good Indian is a dead Indian", emphasizing the need to incorporate the indigenous to modern postrevolutionary state project. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper studies the introduction of the new physical therapies in the years prior to the Second Spanish Republic. It concludes that the physical treatments in force in the international literature were introduced early in Spain and were put into practice by the most important psychiatrists, although in few cases. Given the generalized criticism on the efficacy of psychiatry as a specialty, there was a general bias towards a positive evaluation of the efficacy of the physical therapies by the new generation of Spanish psychiatrists that did not occur in other countries of our setting. The psychiatrists who disagreed professionally with the above-psychiatrists opposed this tendency, there not being sufficient empirical support for the opinion of any group. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]