El español es un mundo

In their dialectal diversity, in their changing reality, in everything that the texts of the past reveal to us about how reality was linguistically seen before, languages ??are, all of them, a world. This book speaks of several languages, but above all attention is focused on one: Spanish. Lola Pons Rodríguez brings together in these pages eighty texts with reflections, warnings and opinions about the Spanish language in its history and its current situation. This book shows a deep look that travels from the present to the past, and vice versa, to understand how our ancestors expressed themselves when words that we consider fundamental today were not used, the geographical variation of the sounds of Spanish, the importance of books in the transmission of culture, the manipulation of language in the field of politics or how, from one year to the next, new words borrowed from other languages ??appear. The author observes reality with the glasses of language on and, from politics to society, she demonstrates that everything can be explained in a linguistic key. El español es un mundo masterfully addresses the multiple dimensions of our language. The historical rigor, originality and clarity of her narration certify the superb maturity of Lola Pons Rodríguez as an essayist, and consolidate her as the great disseminator of Spanish philology on a global level.