Boletín de la Sociedad Geológica Mexicana Volumen 74, núm. 1, A100921, 2022 http://dx.doi.org/10.18268/BSGM2022v74n1a100921

Emerging of the mineralogy discourse in Mexico (1795-1849): a taxonomy of objects, procedures, and instruments
Discurso emergente de la mineralogía en México (1795-1849): una taxonomía de objetos, procedimientos e instrumentos

Andrea Valencia-Martínez^*,¹, Carlos Alberto Mondragón-Colín², Francisco Collazo-Reyes³, Miguel Ángel Pérez-Angón³.

¹ Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados, IPN. Desarrollo Científico y Tecnológico para la Sociedad. Av. Instituto Politécnico Nacional 2508, Gustavo A. Madero, San Pedro Zacatenco, 07360, CDMX, Mexico.
² Instituto de Investigaciones Bibliotecológicas y de Información, UNAM. Unidad de Posgrado, Ciudad Universitaria, Coyoacán, Circuito de Posgrados, 04510, CDMX, Mexico.
³ Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados, IPN. Departamento de Física. Av. Instituto Politécnico Nacional 2508, Gustavo A. Madero, San Pedro Zacatenco, 07360, CDMX, Mexico.

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How to cite this article:
Valencia-Martínez, A., Mondragón-Colín, C., Collazo-Reyes, F., Pérez-Angón, M., 2022, Emerging of the mineralogy discourse in Mexico (1795-1849): a taxonomy of objects, procedures, and instruments: Boletín de la Sociedad Geológica Mexicana, 74 (1), A100921. http://dx.doi.org/10.18268/BSGM2022v74n1a100921

ABSTRACT
We carry out a documentary analysis of the texts on mineralogy produced in and about Mexico from 1750-1849. The objective was to extract the names of the objects, procedures, and instruments (OPI) used in the texts for teaching, research, or improving minerals’ production. OPIs names are considered as rhetorical regularities in the discursive structure of the mineralogy texts. Their identification and characterization in the texts were carried out employing a manual XML tagging differentiated by colors. The objects’ names, procedures, and instruments were identified and organized as taxonomical elements and differentiated according to their frequency. The texts were analyzed according to the objective, the social sector (teaching, research, production), and the argumentative style The analysis reveals the diversification of the rhetorical functions of OPIs in the content structure of the texts. It is an emergent argumentative style that presents the results through the relationship of facts between the IPOs. Thus, the reproducibility of the results function emerges as a qualitative novelty in scientific communication. Development of the taxonomies of OPIs led to representations of the early form of the discourse in Mexican mineralogy.
Keywords: Mineralogy, oryctognosy, Royal Mining Seminar, Andrés Manuel de Río, linguistic taxonomy, Scientific communication.