Topics of FRONTESPO-BIB (English)

FOREWORD

The core of the FRONTESPO-BIB are the works on the language of the Spanish/Portuguese border. Other relevant records that complement a linguistic understanding of the region (history, human geography, etc.) are included, as are other more general resources. However, exhaustive coverage of non-linguistic topics should not be expected.

The general help page for FRONTESPO-BIB is available at http://www.frontespo.org/en/ayuda

The topical organisation of FRONTESPO-BIB follows two structures: the general assignment of one or more topics from the hierarchical thesaurus (which is what this document explains), and a more detailed description using keywords.

For topics that have sub-topics, the topic assigned will always be from the second level. That is, barring errors or entries that are undergoing the cataloguing process, there will hardly be any entries assigned to Lexicology and Lexicography, for example, but rather they will be associated with one or several of its sub-topics (Dictionaries and Glossaries; Phraseology; Onomasiological and Semasiological Works; Other Lexical Works).

General Topics

TOPICS	DESCRIPTORS
Bibliography	Bibliographies and catalogues. Encyclopaedias and reference works.
Biography
Documentation Centres	Archives and archival sciences. Document production.
Entities and Associations	Museums, cultural associations, scientific institutions, public bodies dedicated to border studies.
Media. Publishing Houses.	Publishing industry. Magazines and newspapers. Radio and TV broadcasters.
Inter-Disciplinary Works	General or inter-disciplinary works on the border.
Other - General Topics

Physical World

TOPICS	DESCRIPTORS
Agriculture and Animal Science.	Agriculture. Animal science. Livestock and animal husbandry. Veterinary science. Hunting and fishing. Forestry and forest engineering.
Biology. Environment	Biology. Botany. Ecology. Zoology. Palaeontology. Cross-border natural/national parks.
Physical Geography. Geology	Climatology, meteorology, geomorphology, hydrology
Infrastructure	Mining. Extractive sector. Hydraulic engineering. Electric energy. Motorways. Railways. Postal and telegraph service. Urban development. Customs. Fences and barriers. Maintenance of border markers. Hydraulic and energy interconnections.
Medicine and Biomedicine	Public health and hygiene. Health policy. Pathology. Pharmacology. Biomedicine. DNA. Genetics. Population genetics.
Other - Physical World

Geography

TOPICS	DESCRIPTORS
Cartography	Cartography. Maps.
Geographical/historical description of a region (*)	Geographical/historical description of a town or region. Travel books.
Economy	Labour market. Economic and trade relations. Production and organisation of productive activity. Market and trade institutions.
Human Geography	Demographics. Social groups and classes. Urban and rural geography. Geography of ageing.
Migrations and Exile	Immigration. Emigration. Repopulation and colonisation. Exile. Political refugees. Displaced persons
Tourism	Tourism
Other - Geography

(*) We assign this topic to entries that offer a general description of a town or region, as is common in ethnolinguistic case studies (e.g. Monforte da Beira atravês dos tempos). This type of work is panoramic, and therefore cataloguing the dozens of ethnographic, geographic, or historic topics they touch upon would not be very practical. Thus, we have decided not to attribute additional topics to these cases, except, when appropriate, that of General descriptions of a community (Anthropology and Ethnography), as well as in exceptional cases where the study is of a general nature, but it emphasises a certain aspect.

Political and Social Organisation

TOPICS	DESCRIPTORS
Central Government	Central State Government. State policies. Police. Armed forces.
Regional and Local Government.	Autonomous Communities. Provincial Governments. Districts. Local Governments.
Teaching
Cross-Border Relations	Cross-border programmes. Common and collective lands. Border treaties and agreements. Border disputes
Other - Political and Social Organisation

Thought and Culture

TOPICS	SUB-TOPICS	DESCRIPTORS
Anthropology and Ethnology.
	General descriptions of a community (*)
	Descriptions of specific aspects	Traditions and customs. Death and funerary rites. Community life. Religious pilgrimages and cultural festivals
	Buildings. Tools. Implements.	Tools. Utensils. Houses and attached buildings.
	Folklore. Oral Tradition	Stories, oral storytelling, legends, oral literature, proverbs, adages, etc.
	Folk Medicine	Folk medicine and veterinary science
	Religion. Mythology (**)
	Anthropology - Other	Other anthropological information
Art
	Visual Arts	Sculptures. Paintings and engravings. Drawing. Ceramics. Handicrafts. Architecture. Restoration.
	Musical Arts	Music. Dance.
	Cinema and Photography	Photography. Cinema. Documentaries
	Art - Other
History
	Archaeology.
	Pre-History and Antiquity
	Middle Ages
	Modern Age
	Contemporary Age
	History - Other
Other - Thought and Culture

(*) We assign this topic to those works that cover various anthropological and ethnographic aspects, something which is very common, for example, in ethnolinguistic case studies, which offer a geographic, historical, and cultural panorama of a town or region. In general, if this topic is assigned to an entry, it implies that it is not also assigned topics such as Folklore or Buildings, tools, and implements, given that they are understood to be included in the above topic. Exceptionally, there may be a case where a work is assigned to two of these topics, when it puts a good deal of emphasis on a particular aspect, a fact which is usually reflected in the title (e.g. La cultura oral en Acebo y Sierra de Gata).

(**) Works which mainly consist of compilations of prayers, religious songs, etc. are categorised solely as Folklore and Oral Tradition.

Language

TOPICS	SUB-TOPICS
Comparative studies
	Comparisons between Astur-Leonese/Galician
	Comparisons between Astur-Leonese/Portuguese
	Comparisons between Galician/Portuguese
	Comparisons between Spanish/Galician
	Comparisons between Spanish/Portuguese
	Comparisons between Galician/Portuguese
	Other comparisons
Phonetics and Phonology
Linguistic Historiography
Lexicology and Lexicography
	Dictionaries and Glossaries
	Phraseology
	Onomasiological and Semasiological Works
	Other Lexical Works
Historical and Etymological Linguistics
	Textual Criticism. Writing and Writing Systems
	Etymology
	Historical Grammar. Internal History
	External History
	Onomastics
	Other Works on Historical Linguistics
Morphology and Syntax
Sociolinguistics. Dialectology and Geolinguistics
	Dialect Areas and Linguistic Borders
	Bilingualism and Diglossia. Languages in Contact. Interferences
	Competences, Uses and Attitudes
	(Socio)linguistic Description of a Town or Region. Linguistic Atlases
	Dialect Lexicon
	Standardisation
	Linguistic Policies. Normalisation
	Works on Specific Dialect/Sociolinguistic Phenomena
	Other Dialectology/Sociolinguistics Works
Other - Linguistics

Literature

[N.B. Popular literature is categorised under Anthropology and Ethnography > Oral Tradition]

TOPICS	DESCRIPTORS
Literary Studies	Literary criticism. History of literature. Cross-border literary relations
Literary Production Created along the Spanish/Portuguese Border (*)
Literary Production Set along the Spanish/Portuguese Border
Other – Literature

(*) In keywords, the type of productions represented will be noted (poetry, theatre, etc.)

Submitted by xoseafonso.alvarez on Monday, July 23, 2018 - 12:46.