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The aim of this article is the relationship between grammar and ideology. The ideology can be approached from an intralinguistic level (theoretical doctrine) or from an extralinguistic level (socio-historical-cultural keys). The specific object of this work is the intralinguistic level. In order to investigate that level, the methodological framework used is the internal and external linguistic historiography approach (Brekle 1986) and also the communicative theory. It has been applied to the Tratado elemental de la lengua castellana (1915) written by Rufino Blanco y Sánchez, an intellectual and pedagogue of importance in Spain at the beginning of the 20th century. The article concludes that, despite its Catholic and conservative extralinguistic ideology, Blanco is an innovative grammarian or, at least, an eclectic in scientific and linguistic matters. For this purpose, both its theoretical grammatical program and its sourcesor explicit canon are analyzed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

"The old 'new communication' Bateson and Watzlawick. Lessons from an interdisciplinary and applied current". The article studies the principles and effects of the current "new communication", promoted by the group of Palo Alto. The main authors were Gregory Bateson, Paul Watzlawick, Ray L. Birdwhistell and Edward T. Hall. They brought expertise in anthropology, sociology, psychiatry and linguistics to experience in face-to-face communication. These scientists developed studies between the fifties and the seventies of the twentieth century on nonverbal communication and create such disciplines asproxemics and kinesics. Those studies were applied to mental therapy and interpersonal relationships. Studies of the "new communication" gained widespread in popular books on nonverbal communication, but received little attention of linguists. At present, pragmatics and discourse analysis have affinity with the current of Palo Alto or "Invisible College". Knowing better that model can enrich contextual linguistics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

"Biographical historiography in Portraits of Linguists by Thomas A. Sebeok". The article deals with the compilation of biographies published in 1966 by Thomas A. Sebeok: Portraits of Linguists. A Biographical Source Book for the History of Western Linguistics, 1746-1963. This work is a pioneer in its field and includes 90 biographical writings about 72 linguists from the comparativism and structuralism schools. The paper studies the influence in narrative historiography of linguistics, one that draws on biographical sources (Sebeok 1966) and autobiographical sources (Davis and O'Cain 1980; Koerner 1990, 1998; Swiggers 1997; Brown and Law 2002; Ertler 2007- 2015; Timotin and Colceriu 2012; Laborda, Romera and Fernandez Planas 2014). The article outlines the canon established by Sebeok. The canonical account of Sebeok is characterized by a traditional corpus, with personal contributions of the editor and relevant reviews from biographers. The corpus is composed of male authors who work mainly in Central Europe and the United States. The article examines especially the biographies of R. Rask, O. Jespersen, K. and L. Spitzer Verner. This selection shows the difficulty and responsibility assumed by the historian to interpret the tradition of linguistics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]