Dicenda. Estudios de lengua y literatura españolas

Alonso Pascua, Borja (2023). Prácticas de dialectología sincrónica, Salamanca, Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca, 159 pp. ISBN 978-84-1311-733-1.

2024-04-26T18:29:55+00:00

Arciello, Daniele, Fernández, Enrique, Paolini, Devid y Saguar García, Amaranta (Eds.) (2023). Entre ingenios y agudezas: nuevos rumbos de la crítica celestinesca y picaresca, España, Ediciones de la Universidad de Salamanca, 313 pp. ISBN: 978-84-1311-795

2024-04-08T07:03:11+00:00

Fuente, María Jesús (2023). La luz de mis ojos: Ser madre en la Edad Media, Madrid, Taurus, 441 pp. ISBN: 978-84-306-2578-9.

2024-09-24T15:26:27+00:00

Alberto Hernando García-Cervigón (ed. y coord.) (2023). Ciencia del lenguaje y discurso , Madrid, Visor, 299 pp.

2024-06-26T07:49:41+00:00

Gargano, Antonio (2023). Con aprendido canto. Tradiciones poéticas y perspectivas ideológicas en el cancionero amoroso de Garcilaso de la Vega, Madrid-Frankfurt am Main, Iberoamericana-Vervuert, 722 pp., ISBN: 978-84-9192-390-9 y 978-3-96869-503-7

2024-10-07T06:22:54+00:00

Gilabert, Gastón (2024), El Dinero. Compañía Nacional de Teatro Clásico.ISBN: 9788490414958, 231 pp.

2024-09-14T19:21:55+00:00

José Luis Girón Alconchel, De Juan Ruiz a Cervantes, Instituto Universitario “Seminario Menéndez Pidal”, Colección Ars Maiorum, Madrid, 2023

2024-01-28T18:41:14+00:00

Claudio Moyano Arellano (ed.) Háblame, musa, de la mujer de gran ingenio. Trayectoria vital y literaria de Almudena Grandes, Valladolid: Ediciones de la Universidad de Valladolid, 2023, ISBN: 9788413202457, págs. 218

2024-07-31T00:04:40+00:00

Rodríguez Manzano, Marta, 2024: La identidad femenina en la prensa cubana del siglo XIX. Imagen, lengua y vida cotidiana a través de la publicidad, Valencia: Tirant Humanidades, 126 págs. [ISBN: 978-84-1183-409-4]

2024-10-07T10:27:21+00:00

Romera Castillo, José, ed. (2023). Teatro, ecología y gastronomía en las dos primeras décadas del siglo XXI, Madrid, Verbum. ISBN 978-84-1136-055-5.

2023-12-10T18:00:17+00:00

José Romera Castillo, Antonio Gala a escena, Vigo, Ediciones Invasoras, 2024, I.S.B.N., 978-84- 18885-85 -3, 512 pp. 230.

2024-09-10T06:29:25+00:00

Sáenz de la Calzada, Luis (2024). La aventura de Job. Drama en dos actos. Edición, introducción y notas de Mª Ángeles Varela Olea. Madrid, Pigmalión. ISBN: 978-84-19370-48-8.

2024-02-29T11:04:47+00:00

Torner Castells, Sergi; Battaner Arias, Paz; Renau, Irene (eds.) (2023). Lexicografía Hispánica/ The Routledge Handbook of Spanish Lexicography, Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge. ISBN: 9780429244353 (ebook)

2024-09-01T16:58:27+00:00

Quantification in pedazos (‘pieces’) or cachos (‘chunks’): “Size nouns” as degree quantifiers in oral varieties of contemporary european Spanish

2024-12-10T12:11:19+00:00

The study traces the dialectal areas of cacho, pedazo (y trozo) (all nouns meaning ‘piece, chunk’) and points to urban varieties as the center of creation and diffusion of their change into adnominal degree quantifiers or modifiers (cacho de idiota ‘such an idiot!’, pedazo de chalé ‘such a villa!’). Spanish nouns cacho and pedazo are defined as a type of quantifying nouns, namely, “size nouns”. Taking these nouns as a case study, this article focuses on how lexical features fade through a “desemanticization” process. Based on previous research on elative constructions in Spanish, the article puts forward the hypothesis that a maximality feature ([max] feature) comes out from the lexical components of these nouns. An empirical corpus is retrieved from oral records of contemporary varieties of European Spanish. An additional corpus of “fictional orality” is also employed.

Women who wrote the Semanario pintoresco español (1936-1857)

2024-12-10T12:11:43+00:00

The Semanario Pintoresco Español projected an image of the women which is not monolithic. Whilst on the one hand, many male discourses were published depicting women as the perfect idealization of the «house’s angel», on the other, the very fact that there were certain women writers who published there (Amelia Corradi, Fernán Caballero, Carolina Coronado or Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda) generates a complication in those descriptions that points to the debate around the female question. Indeed, the gap between the discourse on women in press and the writing of the women themselves opens a break in this image along the pages of the famous Spanish newspaper. In this work, I present the results of that representation after having analyzed the 1137 issues of the Semanario. In sum, my research analyzes the biographical profile of those women who, without using a pseudonym, created the presence of female authorship in the 1137 copies that made up the newspaper.

José de Valdivieso and the paratext of the short baroque fiction: an emphasis on the strategic configuration of works of entertainment

2024-12-10T12:11:36+00:00

This study aims to examine the approvals granted by Valdivieso to the collections of short novels during the veto imposed by the Junta de Reformación in the almost two lustrums of prohibition and to ascertain a strategic configuration in the concessions of works of entertainment in the paratextual discourse of the Toledan. Although in all of them the eutrapelic balance coming from the usual protective shield of Horatian prodesse et delectare is maintained, the main criterion of validation of the paratextual discourse of the chaplain will be the delectare, opening, thus, to a process of evolution of the concept of exemplarity that would be understood in relation to a literature of amusement in the paratextual documentation of the chaplain.

Non-adapted an adapted Anglicisms in the Diccionario del léxico juvenil en España (2023)

2024-12-10T12:11:24+00:00

This paper analyzes the non-adapted and adapted Anglicisms of the recently published Diccionario de léxico juvenil de España (2023), by María Luisa Regueiro Rodríguez. This work includes more than 3,000 words, of which 7% are Anglicisms, not counting derivatives, abbreviations and locutions. Most of them appear for the first time in a lexicographic repertory. The group of non-adapted loans far exceeds (90%) that of adapted loans; this not only reflects a high degree of familiarity of young people with English, but the analysis of the semantic fields to which they belong simultaneously reveals interests and attitudes of this age group. The analysis of adapted Anglicisms covers orthographic aspects, presence of doublets and semantic fields. Finally, this study refers to numerous questions related to the microstructure of lexicographic articles.

The Journey to the World of the Dead in Javier Negrete's Odyssey: Classical and Contemporary Tradition

2024-12-10T12:10:58+00:00

This article examines the reinterpretation of the journey to Hades in Javier Negrete's Odyssey (2019). A literary analysis of the theme’s distinctive characters, places, and motifs in the novel is conducted, comparing them with similar elements in works from the ancient world. In addition to the main hypotext, Homer's Nekyia, and the influential katabasis in Virgil's Aeneid, other manifestations of the theme throughout the history of Western literature will be considered, as well as the author's remaining works and other creations from contemporary culture. Javier Negrete's reworking adds new depth to the Homeric episode by merging references from different eras and genres.

The etymologies of the Filipinisms in the DLE cataloged as “del bisayo” or “de origen filipino”

2024-12-10T12:11:21+00:00

This article continues a project to review the etymologies of the loanwords of the East Asian languages of the Dictionary of the Spanish Language. In each of the articles of this project, the coherence of the ascriptions that appear in the etymological glosses of the DLE is investigated; Subsequently, it is checked whether the forms proposed in the Dictionary are also coherent with the current theory of the linguistic history of the different families —Austronesian, in this article— and, finally, in cases in which such coherence does not exist, new etymological ascriptions, forms or glosses for those forms are proposed. The intention of the project is to outline a guide that will facilitate the work of the lexicographer when developing etymologies, both for the DLE and for historical dictionaries.

Discourse particles and subtitling: an experimental approach with eyetracking

2024-12-10T12:11:39+00:00

Discourse particles guide the reader in inferential process by means of their procedural meaning. As it has been experimentally demonstrated, these units reduce the linguistic underdeterminacy within texts and, in many cases, limit cognitive efforts. However, in the translation of subtitles discourse particles are often treated as superficial elements that can be omitted in the case of spatiotemporal constraints. This contribution presents a case study with eyetracking that makes it necessary to reconsider the role of these procedural units in the subtitling of semi-planned texts in Spanish. The study reports data from 20 native speakers of Italian who viewed a Spanish political interview subtitled in the same language in two versions, with and without the presence of discourse particles.

The construction of identity in postmodern society and social conventions in the short novel Cara de pan by Sara Mesa

2024-12-10T12:11:13+00:00

This paper proposes an analysis to consider the relationships between postmodern identity and social conventions through the narrative of Sara Mesa. To achieve this, the research focuses on Mesa’s work Cara de pan (2018), where the author explores the identity crisis of a teenager who engages in an ambiguous relationship with an older man. In this way, the following questions that underlie the present research: How does identity develop in the postmodern era? How do social conventions influence this process? When examining the piece, the goal is to accomplish two fundamental objectives: to understand how identity is constructed and deconstructed in liquid times, and what role social conventions play in the formation of identity in this context.

Lexical diversity in the use of quantifiers in the colloquial register in Bogotá and Cali, Colombia

2024-12-10T12:11:29+00:00

The current study analyzes the use of non-traditional quantifiers, for example, un pocotón, un tris, belonging to the colloquial register observed in the cities of Bogotá and Cali, Colombia. 122 university students from Bogotá and 153 from Cali responded to surveys in which they were asked to include all the expressions for high and low quantities used in any everyday situation. The lexical entries obtained were systematized with information about the character of the quantifier (low or high amount); the number of repetitions of each entry in the population was calculated, and ANOVA statistical analyzes were performed. In summary, differences were observed between the entries used in the two cities; a marked tendency to use nominal phrases to quantify was detected, and it was concluded that the use of complex quantifying expressions obeys the need to communicate subtle positive or negative connotations that speakers they wish to express through quantification.

Intermedial and intertextual references in Juan Gómez-Jurado´s trilogy Red Queen

2024-12-10T12:11:10+00:00

Juan Gómez-Jurado, author of the Spanish crime fiction trilogy Red Queen, has always confessed his admiration for Arturo Pérez-Reverte, as well as for several writers and film directors. My claim is that Gómez-Jurado not only uses them as inspiration, but also as intertextual (Montaner 2003) and intermedial (Rajewsky 2020; Prieto 2017) references for his texts. In doing so, he recreates the atmosphere and the human experience in a very concrete way. Thus, he makes use of a vocabulary, a pace, and a variety of characters that can be traced back to sources such as Sherlock Holmes, James Moriarty, Harry Bosch, Phillip Marlowe, V. I. Warshawski, Tom Ripley or Pepe Carvalho. The narration, accompanied by a soundtrack of its own, follows the quick pace of film techniques while adding a pinch of Cervantine humor to create this hybrid product called crime fiction (Winslow 2022).

The Current Relevance of Postformalist Shklovsky: Wonder as the New Theory of Defamiliarization

2024-12-10T12:11:03+00:00

The structuralist reception in the West prevented some perspectives of Russian formalism from being studied in depth, as they moved away from its theoretical and immanentist positions. This is the case of the ideas developed by Shklovski after 1930, who manages to advance the theory of defamiliarization through new approaches that problematize the relationship between literature, art, and reality. During his last and long period as a theorist, Shklovski moved away from the concept of ostranenie in favor of wonder. This work delves into the relationship between both concepts, understood by their compatibility, as well as the methodological possibilities that the study of wonder opens for the theory of literature and art.

Metonymy in conceptualization of some external body parts in Spanish: the cases of cara, cabeza, boca and mano

2024-12-10T12:11:32+00:00

This article presents a corpus-based study of some of the main conceptualizations of the external body parts cara, cabeza, boca and mano, and their linguistic manifestation in Spanish. The aim is, on the one hand, to present some of the different concepts associated with these words and, on the other hand, to describe the important role played by conceptual metonymy in their motivation. Three different criteria have been applied in the description of metonymies: that of hierarchization, the relationship between metonymy and metaphor, and the relationship with other metonymies (Barcelona, 2011; Blanco-Carrión et al., 2018). The latter allow us to differentiate processes in which metonymy intervenes exclusively or in interactions with other metonymic (metonymic chains) and/or metaphoric projections. The results reveal the target domains toward which these different body parts are projected, among which those related to their functionality and activity.

Alberto Álvarez de Cienfuegos, a forgotten poet. His beginning on the path of Francisco Villaespesa

2024-12-10T12:11:45+00:00

This paper addresses some aspects of the first era of the poet and playwright Alberto Álvarez de Cienfuegos Cobos (1885-1957), an author of progressive ideas whose literary trajectory was truncated by the irruption of the Franco dictatorship, gradually succumbing to the oblivion of the public and literary history. Given the scarcity of monographic studies published on him, these pages are based on a meticulous bibliographic and journalistic search and on the analysis of his early works, which reveal a certain thematic and stylistic affinity with the modernist poet Francisco Villaespesa, with whom Álvarez de Cienfuegos maintained a close connection since 1910, becoming the main reference to trace his own poetics.

An Optimality-Theoretic analyisis of Chilean voseo verb inflection

2024-12-10T12:11:05+00:00

This study offers a structural analysis of the voseo conjugation in Chilean Spanish. The pattern is analyzed as not only an autonomous and self-sufficient linguistic structure but also a structure in which two of the most important variables of Spanish come together: Spanish American voseo and the -s in the syllabic coda. These two elements involve different linguistic levels, such as morphology, phonology, or phonetics. An optimizing perspective is the best strategy to factor out the different elements of the analysis. By turning those elements into universal and natural constraints it is possible not only to account for the voseo pattern in Chile, but also to project typologies of voseo and explore the coda -s with scope over the entire Spanish-speaking world.

The journey of provincial symbolism: from novels to provincial films

2024-12-10T12:10:55+00:00

Provincial symbolism has been recognised exclusively by scholars in its nineteenth-century period of emergence as a novel with an urban profile. It is behind famous works by Balzac, Flaubert, Galdós and Clarín, among others. The subsequent evolution of the provincial novel with its expansion into the rural space and the transfer of all its variants to the cinema are less studied phenomena. We intend to shed light on the last of these chapters, in which the provincial is offered as a film genre, by diving first into the cultural roots of its symbolism, laying the foundations of its genre and exemplifying its filmic ramifications through the analysis of spanish films that, for the most part, adapt provincial novels.