Experts discuss the impact of technology in the Spanish language

Inscribed on the celebrations of the fifth centenary of the discovery of the Pacific , Congress - organized by the Royal Spanish Academy , the Association of Spanish Language Academies and the Institute Cervantes , whose motto is " The Spanish in the book : the Atlantic to the Sea South " .

"We focus on the book and on those close to him applications , such as e-book that has elements of new technology and old traditional book elements ," explains José Manuel Blecua , director of the SAR and president of the Association which groups at 22 schools .

For four days will address issues as "problems that today have the book from the legal point of view , with digital rights , intellectual property , all these elements are as vivid today that did not exist 20 years ago ," he says .

From the first Congress in 1997 in Zacatecas ( Mexico ), where Gabriel Garcia Marquez threw his controversial call to retire spelling, also changed "the possibilities of working with the language, with everything that brought applications to research language , "he adds , noting " such access to large databases "online .

In this edition , chaired by Prince Felipe of Spain and Panamanian President Ricardo Martinelli , the opening will be borne by the Spanish- Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa , Sergio Ramírez Nicaraguan and Panamanian Juan David Morgan .

The conference , which for the first time will have a virtual Internet edition will also be the occasion to launch a Elemental Spelling coincide with the interests of the host, Panama Minister of Education , Lucy Molinar , to give an educational character .

This conference should serve to " take a significant step in improving teaching in Spanish " in schools, had said Molinar during the presentation ceremony in June in Madrid , for which Panama among others invited to participate over a thousand student teacher .

Future.

The SAR will also present " two projects closely related to the issue of Internet " explains Blecua . The first is the new website of the Academy , where in addition to the dictionary of the language , which already recorded 42 million visits a month, will be available the fundamental works published since its founding 300 years ago , some of which no longer have paper edition .

To this is added the first phase of a database , called the Spanish Corpus XXI Century ( CORPES ) , with 160 million words of time , from 70% of American texts and materials 7.5% emerged Internet .

The network and its actors , including bloggers , will also be addressed but its influence is still too recent , as Blecua , to feel in the language. " The language states do not change so quickly.