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Chilean school grammar at the beginning of the 20th century: the Tratado elemental de análisis lógico de la proposición castellana (1916) by Carlos Vicuña Fuentes

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Vol. 56 No. 2 (2021)

Abstract

This article investigates the grammar taught in Chilean schools by examining the Tratado elemental de análisis lógico de la proposición castellana (1916) by Carlos Vicuña Fuentes. To situate Vicuña and his work in the Chilean context, the article describes how early on in his life he engaged in a wide range of teaching activities, above all at secondary school level, from which led to the work analysed here. In order to observe this teaching in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the study establishes the basic features of its evolution during this period, which was marked by two fundamental institutions (the Instituto Nacional and the Instituto Pedagógico) and by two outstanding figures (Andrés Bello and Rodolfo Lenz). The study of certain central elements highlights the connection between the affirmations of Vicuña and his possible sources, and the aspects that make him unique when it comes to giving a pedagogical angle to the analysis within the line followed by the teaching of Spanish grammar both in Spain and Hispanic America. Thus, the questions raised expand current knowledge of the history of grammars written for teaching purposes and establish the key developments in this discipline duringthe specified time frame.

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Chilean school grammars, logical analysis, secondary education teaching, syntactic unit, part of speech

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María Bargalló Escrivá, Universitat Rovira i Virgili

Para correspondencia, dirigirse a: María Bargalló Escrivá (maría.bargallo@urv.cat). Facultad de Letras. Dto. de Filologías Románicas. Avda. Catalunya, 35 – 43002 Tarragona (España).

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Bargalló Escrivá, M. (2021). Chilean school grammar at the beginning of the 20th century: the Tratado elemental de análisis lógico de la proposición castellana (1916) by Carlos Vicuña Fuentes. Boletín De Filología, 56(2), pp. 209–239. Retrieved from https://pedagogiaderecho.uchile.cl/index.php/BDF/article/view/65731
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