Language and grammar in El Magisterio español (1871-1880)

Authors

  • María José García Folgado Universitat de València

Abstract

Questions about language and its teaching occupy a special place in the pedagogical press, since this was a central aspect in school and in teacher training by legal mandate (Ezpeleta Aguilar, 2015: 159). Specifically, in the case of grammar, the periodical pages host both theoretical articles on the language, as well as didactic works with an eminently practical approach, debates on specific grammatical aspects, reviews of grammatical works, etc. All this makes the educational press a material of great relevance to know in depth the development of grammatical ideas. In this paper, we approach the linguistic ideas present in one of the lasting periodical publications of the specialized press, the newspaper El Magisterio Español (founded in 1867), during its first decades of existence and, especially, in the period 1871-1880 dominated by thepresence of Fernando Gómez de Salazar.

Keywords:

Pedagogical press, Grammar, Language teaching, 19th century

Author Biography

María José García Folgado, Universitat de València

Para correspondencia, dirigirse a: Mª José García Folgado (maría.jose.garcia-folgado@uv.es), Facultat de Magisteri, Avda. Tarongers, 4. 46022, Valencia. ORCID 0000-0002-5124-7471.