Los ejemplos de las técnicas decimonónicas: el ferrocarril

Abstract

The languages of specific themes have been treated, in the last years, from a philological point of view. Nevertheless, their analysis has been expounded mainly from terminological disciplines, with the objective of defining and unifies the corpus lexical of a specific branch of the knowledge presently. In some other occasions, their study has been centered in their possible theoretical characterization, in connection with the common language or with other languages. Both perspectives there aren’t fall into two fundamental looks. In first place, in the tracing of a historical-linguistic itinerary of the adoption of a group of common terms to a science, to a technique or to a profession, with the texts in the hand; in second place, in the necessity of establishing the relationships that exist between language, culture and society in the moments of apparition and evolution of a language of specialty.
This is the objective of this dissertation: analyzing the process of introduction and development from the lexicon of the railroad in the Spanish language, keeping in mind the original documents, the history of the terms and their lapse parallel to the technician-scientific Spanish evolution in rail matter.