In the didactic and entertaining essay 'El español en su historia,' Professor Elena Azofra reconstructs, through illustrative examples, the several centuries of the life of our language.

Professor Elena Azofra Sierra updates the classic manuals incorporating the latest advances in the knowledge of the history of our language in her new book “El español en su historia. Textos y contextos.”

This manual is part of the recommended bibliography in Introduction to the history of the Spanish language, for the Degree in Spanish Language and Literature, offering students specific activities to guide autonomous work within the framework of the subject.

This book is a very useful tool to deepen the study of current Spanish from the diachronic point of view, that is, that of the history of the evolution of our language, but it presents it by focusing on the most recent changes, an absent approach in the topics of the current manuals.

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