Spanish C2 · Day 35
Day 35: Archivo virreinal cuestionado — Official and administrative Spanish (part 1)
What you'll learn
- Grammar: Official and administrative Spanish (part 1)
- Reading: Las grietas del archivo virreinal
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Grammar point: Official and administrative Spanish (part 1)
A carefully written administrative justification distinguishes three things: what the institution has established, how it evaluates those facts, and why that evaluation supports its choice. Consider a fictional municipal studio programme whose published criteria include artistic quality, a convincing work plan, and the need for suitable premises. C2 writing makes the movement between these levels visible without …
Key vocabulary (8 of 20 words)
- la asimetría documental – unequal survival and representation in historical records
- la expedientación – the compilation of administrative records into formal files
- el contexto de emisión – the circumstances in which a document was issued
- la inmanencia documental – restriction of interpretation to evidence within the document
- el saber de gobierno – administrative knowledge produced to exercise viceregal rule
- el silencio documental – the absence of voices or events from archival records
- la expurgación – the formal disposal or culling of archival records
- la contraevidencia documental – records or testimonies that counter the official account
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