Mariano Velázquez de la Cadena (1778-1860).Catálogo bibliográfico, manuales de enseñanza de español y labor lexicográfica

Abstract

This thesis aims to present and analyze the complete work of Mariano Velázquez de la Cadena, a Spanish teacher in the United States who lived between 1778 and 1860, contextualizing said work in its historical and pedagogical environment from the point of view of Historiography Linguistics. In chapter 1 or introduction the objectives, the state of the art and the methodology are set. In order to specify the objectives, four research questions related to the work of Velázquez de la Cadena have been asked in order to answer them in the conclusions. On the state of the question, the articles and books that have formed the basis for the elaboration of this thesis are presented, in which the philological method developed in Sáez Rivera (2014) and the Rafael Lapesa´s method, taken from the synthesis carriedout by Girón Alconchel (2001), have been applied, both exposed and explained in the section dedicated to methodology. Chapter 1 concludes with a section dedicated to describing the modus operandi that has been followed to produce the bibliographic files that make up the annex to this thesis: one file for each of the twelve works by our author. After the introduction, an analysis is carried out on the historical and pedagogical context, in the field of foreign language teaching, which took place at the end of the 18th and 19th centuries, in order to relate these contexts with the work of our author. Next, a chapter is included for each of the works by Velázquez de la Cadena, in which, in addition to describing the content of the books, they have been compared with other works of his time, taking in many cases as a reference those published by the Real Academia Española...