%0 Journal Article %A Méndez Viar, María Victoria %T Abreviaturas : ¿necesidad de una revisión metodológica? %D 1997 %U http://hdl.handle.net/10017/7513 %X After reviewing, shortly, the origin of the abbreviation, the methods devised by man to abbreviate, and the causes adduced for their apparition, we think the topic needs a methodological revision about them. Abbreviation can be more than an "exotic" element into the text; it can constitute an indicator about the knowledge level of alphabetical code in a determinated age: abbreviation as cultural indicator %K Ciencias sociales %K Social sciences %K Biblioteconomía y documentación %K Library science and documentation %K Humanidades %K Humanities %K Historia %K History %~ Biblioteca Universidad de Alcala