I must anticipate that I will not present a discourse analysis, in the strictest sense, my intention is to show that the analysis framework of modality can be applied as an instrument for such analysis, and for this purpose I present fragments of texts.
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Thirty years ago, during the seventies, an attempt to apply Marxism called Latin American social archaeology:
[Texto completo]In the past two decades, the work of writing history has constantly been subject to revision, both to its procedures and to its aims, and in these revisions have had an outstanding place the proposals and warnings on the risk of falling in the easy means of justifying a certain approach given the impossibility on the part of the historian of eluding his/her own cultural context of origin, as well as on the part of the obvious and methodological impossibility of assuming empathic attitudes.
[Texto completo]This is why the book Asilo diplomático mexicano en el Cono Sur (Mexican diplomatic asylum in the South Cone) has the merit of being one of the pioneer works about Latin American exile, because it is based on original and novel information contained in the aforementioned archive.
[Texto completo]The content of Persistencia histórico-cultural. San Miguel Tolimán is very useful both for students and for specialists of the Otomi culture and the regional history.
[Texto completo]In this article, I present some of the possible interpretations of the toponymic glyph for Jilotepec. First, I will say a word or two about the study of place names in general; then I will go into the different interpretations that have been attributed to the toponym Jilotepec and its glyph; and finally I will present a few thoughts about its meaning.
[Texto completo]Eating is a physiological act necessary for survival. It is the action through which a living creature introduces into its body organic and inorganic substances which will give it the nutrients it requires to function adequately. Human beings, as members of the animal kingdom, must satisfy their biological needs, but as members of a community they must also be guided by patterns of conduct, organization and ideology acquired through their powers of adaptation throughout history.
[Texto completo]This article begins with general information about epidemiological transition and its relationship to dietary changes in Mexico. Later, results from two research projects on intergenerational dietary change will be presented.
[Texto completo]The process of constructing identities necessarily involvesthe dynamics of social relations in which different groups have been involved throughout their history. In the case of the pueblos indios (Native American settlements), the history of intherethnic relations is a central theme in the definition a people’s own identity and the construction of the “other”. This process includes a reciprocal dialogue between social groups, which directly or indirectly embodies elements of the manifestation of this interrelationship in different moments in the history of the groups.
[Texto completo]The documents collected by Ambassador Rodríguez contain valuable knowledge for the history of the Spanish exile and constitute an especially bright moment in the Mexican foreign service.
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