COGNICIÓN, ESTEREOTIPO, IMAGINARIO Y FANTASÍA EN EL PROCESO DE APREHENSIÓN DE LA NUEVA REALIDAD A TRAVÉS DEL LÉXICO DEL CASTELLANO: LOS TESTIMONIOS DE LOS CRONISTAS DE INDIAS

ABSTRACT The Crónicas de Indias is a miscellaneous world with information about America colonization: letters, autobiographies, natural histories, which invite us to revisit the philology, where language, literature, history, anthropology fit equally. The works developed so far reached divergent conclusions. We have proposed to unite language, literature and, also, history and anthropology. All these texts are useful to refer their content to the penetration of the indigenous lexicon into the Castilian language -and vice versa-, with identity, cultural exchanges and understanding-representati...