Discourse Traditions are a key concept of diachronic Romance linguistics. The present manual aims to establish this approach at an international level by assembling contributions that introduce its theoretical foundations, discuss connections with alternative approaches of text and discourse analysis, show the relevance of Discourse Traditions for the history of Romance languages, and explore possibilities for future applications of the concept.

Esme Winter-Froemel, University of Würzburg, Germany; Álvaro S. Octavio de Toledo y Huerta, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain.