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Introduction: In this study, the categories "paper reading", "screen reading" and "ways of reading" were analyzed through the words of teachers who belong to different disciplines and headquarters of the Universidad Nacional del Comahue (UNCo), Patagonia, Argentina. Method: For this study, part of a major investigation carried out within the framework of a doctoral thesis in Education, the constant comparative method was used, and qualitative data from semi-structured interviews with teachers, conducted during the 2014-2017 period, were analyzed. Objective: The main objective was to determine the representations of UNCo lectures regarding screen reading and their relationship with the task of teaching at university. Results: Concerning results, on the one hand, it was observed that the ratings on screen reading were different when the focus was shifted from the task of teaching to research. On the other hand, there were several changes in the ways of reading and teaching, although it was admitted that these do not always lead to profound transformations in education. Conclusion: The main conclusion was that, in certain situations, it seems that the so-called "new" technologies have demolished several walls, allowing for more extensive and open ways of teaching, but at the same time, it is noted that new walls have been erected, some of which only reproduce old pedagogical models. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The requirement of a sustainable management of the historical heritage sites demands the design of management control models that contemplate the particularities of those sites, beyond the architectural ones. The goal of this paper is the design of a holistic, contingent and integrator model to be used by the public and/or private managers for the sustainable management. To achieve this, a thorough bibliographic review of the specialized literature has been carried out. This model does not pretend to be universal but rather a point of reference for its adaptation to the particularities of each site. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Since the end of the last century, the development of new trends and tourism consumption models has allowed the proliferation of tourist equipment in Extremadura, exploiting the heritage resources, both natural and cultural. In this paper, supply and demand of tourist sector in Extremadura are analyzed, emphasizing the classification by Tourist Territories of the regional government. For this, economic, social and patrimonial variables are studied through the Multiple Linear Regression statistic (OLS), Principal Components Analysis (PCA)and Geographic Information Systems (GIS). It will be seen what Tourist Territories have implemented better strategies intend to reception of visitors, the increase of economic rents and the preservation of the population in rural areas, as well as which ones present deficiencies in their tourist development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Storytelling as strategy to transmit values and identity of a brand has acquired relevance during the last years. However, this concept is already relatively underdeveloped in academic literature on tourism destinations. This paper aims to analyze storytelling potentialities and use in a tourism destination trough traditional stories. Legends of the city of Girona (Spain) have been chosen as a case study. Results demonstrated that legends of the city have the potential to develop a storytelling strategy, but this potential is not used properly. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper seeks to explore the current state of agritourism in Spain by taking a supplyside perspective. Following on from a theoretical-conceptual analysis of agritourism, the presence of this activity within the Spanish legal-administrative framework and the provisions made for it therein are examined, and its territorial distribution within Spain is described. Despite the existence of a tourism framework that is apparently favourable to agritourism, given current trends in tourism demand and Spain's great potential for tourism, the level of development and implementation of agritourism in Spain is not as advanced as that in other European countries. The recognition of agritourism and, consequently, the development of an identity that is distinct from that of other types of tourism have not, as yet, been adequately addressed in Spain. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Wine tourism is a growing economic activity in Castilla y León. More and more people are interested in knowing the ins and outs of the world of wine, so wine is becoming one of the pillars of rural development in the plains of the Duero. In order to achieve this key role in the territory, this activity has had to adapt to changes in the tastes of consumers and, especially, to faster and more direct new forms of communication. This paper aims to outlook the existing situation in the wineries of Castilla y León in the field of new technologies and, especially, of websites and social networks, two key tools for the development of wine tourism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In recent years, the Region of Murcia has promoted new tourism models related to heritage and the sea. However, despite the richness of its maritime history and heritage, it has not done so in a complementary manner. The Mar Menor-La Manga area has only boosted the maritime aspect in relation to nautical activities, leaving their heritage relegated to a second place. This paper seeks to vindicate the importance of the Maritime Heritage, History, and Culture associated with this area and to show the opportunities offered by its proper enhancement through a case study: the implementation of an underwater heritage trail in the Phoenician wreck of the "Bajo de la Campana" as part of the "Isla Grosa" Project. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper was written as it was felt there was a need to create a simple but exhaustive system of assessment to evaluate the narrative skills of students doing Spanish as a foreign language and those studying it as their mother tongue. The main aim of this paper is to create and appraise a model capable of producing and evaluating written and oral skills of Italian B2 level students learning Spanish as a foreign language and Spanish students studying Spanish as part of their B2 level curriculum. What distinguishes this paper is its innovative semiotic approach which crossfertilizes the relationships between cinema and literature. Although two different narrative techniques are employed, these two elements develop the same semantic reference. Another original feature is that this study is not based on a simple comparison between the two genres but rather on the correlation between them. To this extend, a model called C.O.E.N was created. This didactic model concentrates on oral and written competency in Hispanic texts which can be evaluated once students learning Spanish as a second language have reached a B2 level, but also on mother tongue Spanish students who have reached the same level. This method links production and evaluation of oral and written competency in narrative texts. Due to length restrictions, this paper presents only the results of the analysis of Spanish learners' written productions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The following paper consists of the translation analysis of a literary work based on the study of the transference of the neologisms used in it. The chosen author is George Orwell, one of the geniuses of narrative of the 20th century and composer of some of the most relevant novels in the history of literature. We have selected the work 1984 to develop this paper, the masterpiece of Orwell's bibliography. The study has been completed by comparing the original version of the novel (written in the English language and published by Penguin) and two Spanish target texts, translated by Rafael Vázquez Zamora and Miguel Temprano García, published by Austral and Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial respectively. These two texts have been selected due to the different options used by the translators to transfer the lexicogenic elements designed by the author. The diverse chosen examples will be exposed in their original as well as in their translated form, inserted in their contexts of origin, and they will be analyzed using a contrastive method. Conclusions will be shown later about the functionality of the innovative concepts and words conceived by this writer in the new language and the morphology that these new manifestations adopt in the new context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyses the main female characters of the newspaper comic strip Terry and the Pirates by Milton Caniff, from the point of view of their assimilation with the female archetypes of classic cinema, mainly from the 30s and 40s of the 20th century. Initially, the introduction comments the features of the series and the objectives of the article. Then, the paper is divided into four sections corresponding to the four feminine archetypes analysed by Nuria Bou in his book Diosas y tumbas. Mitos femeninos en el cine de Hollywood. Each of these archetypes correspond to an important female character of Caniff's work, at least during a significant period during the twelve years that he was the artist of series, between 1934 and 1946. This is an analysis of the relationship between the classic cinema and the classic comic strip, an aspect that has not been considered in the literature, from a gender perspective. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The first section of this paper focuses on the importance of negotiation processes related to research and evaluation. This importance is based on five issues: ethics in production processes, knowledge scope, rigorous inquiry, efficiency of development- oriented findings and strategy to maintain contexts in which research and participant learning can take place. The different phases of the negotiation process are also presented: initial, processing and reporting, the last one of special importance. The requirements, types, characteristics and operation processes of the reporting phase are discussed. The second section of this paper provides in the form of an example a specific case of negotiation from a qualitative investigation about immigrant familie's participation at school. Its different phases, demands and virtualities are discussed. The paper finished with some final considerations and references. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Tutoring is institutionalized in all educative stages from childhood to higher education. However, tutoring at university level has a much shorter and newer tradition. Since the implementation of EHES, tutoring has come back as a quality factor in this educative stage, but the resurgence of university level tutoring should not be seen as a novelty but as a fundamental guiding process with many advantages and benefits to the university community. Because of that, the aim of this paper is to go into detail about the implementation and development of tutoring in this context from university student's perception. This paper is done using a quantitative methodology approach with a descriptive and transversal research design. 572 undergraduate students of Childhood Edu cation, Primary Education, Social Education and Pedagogy from the University of Murcia have participated. These students contribute their opinions and evaluations through an ad hoc questionnaire based on a previous research. A reliability and validation analysis is presented through an exploratory factorial analysis. The database and its analysis were undertaken with SPSS v.21 statistics program. Descriptive and inference analysis is used on purpose. The results show different ways of intervention aimed at offering a better quality for the educative process. One especially relevant establishes that more careful attention shoud be paid to the design processes of tutoring action plans, in line with the research of González and León (2014) or Cano and Paula (2008). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Bruno Zaldo Rivera (Pradoluengo -- España, 1836-1916) represents an example of the emigrant who triumphed "haciendo las Americas" [making it in the Americas]. In this paper, a man is profiled who, with hardly the most basic studies, and thanks to his endeavors and perspicacity, was capable of benefitting from the opportunities, both in economic and in social spheres, from his beginnings as a small-time merchant in the Mexican emporium of Veracruz, to his election as a senator of Spain. The investigation demonstrates his entrepreneurial versatility and his generosity in the form of innumerable donations and foundations. The analysis of his initiatives as a real-estate promotor and successful banker, and his social and political relations, explain his accession to a group within the high society of the Spanish Restauration. Finally, it will be shown how art, in all of its expressions, was subsumed as an instrument for the consolidation of his prestige and for the preparation of his image as a distinguished gentleman of the Nation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Botanical Garden located in what once was the Murcia "Instituto Provincial de Segunda Enseñanza", founded in 1837, is one of the few remaining gardens of the historical high schools of Spain. At that time, the school was considered to be one of the best in the country and it still keeps some of the specimens that were used to teach botany. During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries professors of Natural History and Agriculture developed the activity of their departments in connection with this space, giving way to an excellent collection of plants and a valuable set of scientific and teaching materials. Today the gardens are part of a public park where the activities carried out are very different from the teaching functions for which they were originally conceived, to the extent that the plants are even at risk. This paper seeks to explore both the history of this educational space and the intrahistory of the activities carried out in it in relation to the teaching of sciences and the staff involved. It also aims to safeguard the heritage of the educational institutions of the Region of Murcia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to identify the reasons can help us to explain how a modest local bank, founded by a group of merchants that carried out their activity in the port of Santander in the central years of the 19th century, was able to sustain over time until joining the select club of the "big seven" of Spanish banking. It is concluded that three distinctive features should take into account in order to explain its longevity and prolonged accommodation to the local sphere throughout this long period: the strong family ties and instrumental friendship between its managers, the design of a financial policy with marked risk aversion and a protectionist attitude, against all competition. These distinctive features began to emerge in its very origins as an issuing bank. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper consists of the translation analysis of the lexicogenic elements (or neologisms) used to build the fictional world described in a literary work included in the science fiction genre. The chosen book is 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke, one of the masterpieces of science fiction literature, written by one of the most influential authors in this literary sphere. Clarke is responsible for works such as Childhood's End or The Nine Billion Names of God, which created new standards for this kind of narratives, but 2001: A Space Odyssey has been chosen due to its conceptual depth and its writing virtuosity. This translation study has been carried out by comparing the original version of the novel (written in the English language and published by Hachette UK in 2010) and the sole target text available in Spanish, translated by Antonio Ribera and published by Debolsillo in 2014. The different examples included in this article will be shown in their original as well as their translated forms (inserted in their contexts of origin) and they will be analyzed using a contrastive method, after which conclusions about the functionality of the new terms that transfer the concepts described in the novel will be presented. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper examines the attitudes and beliefs of students of Spanish as a foreign language, who undertook their secondary education in the bilingual sections of Slovakia, Czech Republic and Poland, towards the educated varieties of Spanish. To achieve our goal, we relied on the PRECAVES-XXI project, which allowed us to establish how the surveyed students valued the varieties in both direct (evaluating an audio recording) and indirect (evaluating the speaker, the region and the culture) ways. It was found that, in the case of direct evaluation, the variety that obtained the best results was the Castilian, followed by the Mexican, the Rioplatense and, finally, the Andalusian variety. Almost identical results were obtained in the indirect evaluation by the region and the culture. However, this was not the case in the evaluation by the speaker, in which the order of the varieties, best to worst, was as follows: Castilian, Andalusian, Rioplatense and Mexican. Finally, the possible causes of such results are discussed, as well as their application in the field of teaching Spanish as a foreign language, and in Hispanic language policy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper we analyze the concepts of cultureme (Translation Studies), topoi (Argumentation Theory), active zones and normality profiles (Cognitive Linguistics) aiming to establish analogies and understand from a multidisciplinary viewpoint the way in which ordinary knowledge (unscientific) can reach a false epistemological status (pseudoscientific). From the review of the characteristics attributed to scientific, unscientific and pseudoscientific knowledge, we analyze the role played by the concepts cited in the constitution of pseudoscience. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Internet has become part of our forms of daily communication, and it helps us, among many other uses, to search for information, consult it, or share it, both in the private sphere and in the academic-professional field. This second context is the one that will be the object of this paper. Without losing sight of the most relevant concepts of Cyberpragmatics (Yus 2010), the objective of this study is to reflect on the polite and impolite uses of discourse in one of the various types of asynchronous communication: the forum, specifically the discussion forums of Spanish language. Also, we will see how the certain anonymity that this type of discourse entails can influence the violation of the rules indicated by the netiquette. The examples come from the Spanish forum of the Cervantes Virtual Center and WordReference ("Only Spanish"). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The word creativity has a very recent history in the Spanish lexicon -1983 in the Manual Dictionary of theRAE. Although the word is attested since the early years of the twentieth century, the occurrences will be very low until the seventies. On the other hand, the definition refers to the verb create, which presents a complex etymology in Spanish.The aim of this paper is to examine the linguistic and social genealogy of the concept of creativity in Spanish. Special attention will be paid to the origins, the changes in the definitions and the current combinatorial of the word. It will be seen then that, in order for the word to emerge, society had to detach itself from numerous inertias, so the trajectory of the term serves as an example of the process of humanization and secularization of society and science since the 19th century. It shows, in short, the link between language and society through the analysis of a concept that has become a hallmark of 21st century society. In order to carry out the work, the corpus of the Academy, CORDE, CREA, CORPES XXI and the New Lexicographical Treasure of the Spanish language have been used. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper we analyse the metaphors referred to refugees in Spanish newspapers during 2015. The news belongs to the DIPURE corpus, devoted to the study of public discourse on refugees in Spain. Using the classification of metaphors into source and target domains, we sort out the samples and interpret them pointing at depersonalisation as the main sociosemiotic category. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents a methodology that allows the identification of agricultural zones vulnerability due to meteorological drought in Mexico. The proposal uses multivariate evaluation techniques, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), standardization and statistical analysis. The methodological validation process was developed and approved in the State of Mexico territory, where indicators suggested by methodological guide of the INECC and UNPN were select and applied. Also the analysis by thematic overload of variables to process the information was carried out. As result, exposure mapping, sensitivity, resilience and agricultural vulnerability were developed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper proposes an approach to a dimension of the practices of State terrorism in Argentina: torture in the concentration camps. More specifically, about the torture suffered by women during their captivity. For this, we analyze the experience of four political activists, kidnapped in the province of Entre Ríos. The text reviews three distinct moments, the before, during and after State terrorism. Each one of them allows, without deflating the magnitude of what happened, understanding how the objective structures of the State are modified to exterminate the reduced groups to a negativized otherness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

These pages analyse the qualities required of parliamentarians in Peru from the Constitution of 1860, the regulatory framework until 1920. With this aim, we used the speeches pronounced by the parliamentarians in the development of their functions, which allows an approach to the political culture of liberal elites. The objective of this paper is to analyse the perception of parliamentarians about themselves and their role in Parliament, and how one of the basic principles of nineteenth century liberalism operated in this sense: the principle of distinction. Finally, it can be affirmed that the positions of deputies and senators acted as political categories defined by the own parliamentarians, who considered their role as different and superior to that of the electors. Therefore, it was necessary to restrict the space of the Congress to a "distinguished" sector of the population, through the imposition of a series of requirements. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper proposes an approach to the study of the strategies used by some Catholic student groups in Uruguay in order to in order to influence within the university. From a historical and qualitative methodology, it identifies the continuities and ruptures of the forms used by these groups to reach a greater influence at Universidad de la República, the only university institution at the time, are identified. It seeks to contribute to the study of the recent past from an innovative approach that places attention on speeches and practices deployed by youth sectors of Catholicism from the specialized Catholic Action neglected by national researchers. In this way, it seeks to enrich the understanding of local processes by inserting them into broader contexts at the Latin American regional level and at a global level marked by the Cold War. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Cultural and institutional centralism has characterized the development of rural and liminal regions of Mexico, entailing a prolonged and generalized neglect towards historiographic narration of the Northern region. The reconstruction of its social dimension has been picked up through the work of local historians; among a few, Ricardo Elizondo Elizondo (1950-2013) stands out thanks to his literary work, in which his historiographic research is conveyed through microhistory-related fiction. Thus, this research paper suggests an approximation to the Mexican Northwest microhistory between the end of the revolutionary conflicts and the rise of neoliberal politics, following the trace marked by Elizondo's coral novel Narcedalia piedrotas (1993) and reconstructing the relation existing between historical context and literary narrative. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

There is an extended consensus related to the need to improve the qualification of workforce in tourism and hospitality industry. Likewise, the literature suggests the importance of HR practices to improve organizational results. This paper aims to show empiric evidence about the role of recruitment-selection and retention practices on the human capital development and organizational performance in hotel firms. The results show the important role of recruitment-selection practices, particularly. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes the acceptance of the technologies that make an airport an Smart Airport, by Spanish passengers. In particular, it is verified how the use of self-service technologies in the boarding, obtaining luggage tags and baggage check processes increases the passenger's satisfaction. It also shows that the desire to use new technologies in these processes and the use of video games and biometric passports is related to the age of the passengers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In 1962 John Cage travelled to Japan, where he visited Ryoanji's famous Zen garden in Kyoto. There arises a keen interest in the celebrated garden, thus building a lifelong relationship based on mutual influence. The creative significance of such a connection has been widely discussed in the fields of art and music. However, it also urgently needs to be analyzed from an aestheticontological perspective, focused particularly on the destruction of the ego as a basis for the psychological development of "I". In this context, the present paper argues that Cage's fascination for Ryoanji goes well beyond mere aesthetic affinities or methodological principles, such as chance and automatism. More specifically, it takes root in the dissolution of the 'I'. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, we are going to develop a series of critical concepts from Octavio Paz's essay works, specifically, those of analogy and irony, of clearly romantic and symbolist roots, and meta-irony, particularly conceptualized by the author to explain an aesthetic phenomenon of the Avant-garde. However, we will not devote ourselves to all the artists who renewed the forms of cultural creation at the beginning of the 20th century, but we will stop at the early work of a figure that was specially interesting to Octavio Paz: Marcel Duchamp. In this way, we are going to explain the evolution and application of these concepts through different reflections and authors of interest. We will observe that at the bottom of these reflections are found the keys of poetic modernity as understood by the Mexican poet, and that it manifested itself in a cultural trajectory that culminated or reached fullness, precisely, with Duchamp's works. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper seeks to develop a "Strength-based proactive approach for building resilience in school children" under political crisis to be used by counsellors within Gaza schools to advance social and emotional learning programmes that enhance students' resilience and wellbeing. A mixed-methodological approach was used to collect and analyse the data. The qualitative methods included the data collection using literature review, (12) interviews with school principals and psychologists and (12) focus groups with parents, counsellors and teachers. The quantitative method included data collection using (619) students' self-administered questionnaires. The study population consisted of all the students of basic education grades in Gaza city. The study sample was random and consisted of (619) students. Statistical analysis was used to analyse the questionnaire and the content analysis was used to analyse qualitative data. Findings obtained in this study reflected that both qualitative and quantitative methods highlighted similar strength factors that support building resilience among school children in Gaza. They define children's ability to adapt and succeed despite the difficult conditions surrounding them, child positive thinking, providing care, creating a supportive school environment, incorporating resilience topics in curriculum, engaging children in resiliency workshops, building strong relationships between school and family, joining peer groups and building good relationship with neighbours and relatives. In conclusion, this study comes as the first effort to develop Conceptual Strength-Based Proactive Approach model for counsellors in Gaza city and other cities experiencing similar political instability to apply effective approaches for fostering academic learning, resilience and wellbeing of school children. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyses architecture semantics at the end of the Middle Ages, starting mainly with Catalonian and Valencian examples. First of all, we examine terms such as mestre d’obres, mestre de cases, and imaginaire, which are often used as synonyms. On the other hand, the study of many other less common ones, such as architect and builder, can help us to clarify a rather complex building reality. The analysis of the documents allows us to strengthen our understanding of the versatility of the medieval master builders, the prestige that some of them acquired, and the relationships that they established with other related professions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to analyze the existing tensions within the wool carders’ guild of Murcia regarding the annual election of their main authorities – the so-called veedores – from the second half of the fifteenth century to the early sixteenth century. In this period, the guild´s elite sought to monopolize the designation of these authorities, with the resistance of several guild members. As a consequence of this conflict, the local council interceded several times by changing the election system with the aim of calming the tensions, although with no success. Our objective is to identify the interests of the main actors involved in the conflict, in order to analyze the social nature of this dispute. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper reflects on the advantages of the association/cooperation and the solidarity organization in a complex world. It requires reestablishing the presuppositions of cooperative paradigm and the necessity of a political pedagogy to contradict the society stage of ambiguity and contemporaneity uncertainty because to think solidarity implies changing the analytical base of modernity. It points that the non-trivialization of participation and commitment principles need to be concretized in a set of policy measures that search for the democratization and socialization of knowledge that per pass solidarity pedagogy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper sets out a thorough revision of the complexities of the political economy in Ecuador. In working towards establishing a Social State, the country had to confront the many contradictions present in Andean society as well as the pressing demands of the global market. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes the gestation of environmental protection regulations related to mining activities, as well as specific mining provisions that were approved and had an impact to reduce the negative effects to the natural environment. The mining regulations that were approved in the Modern Age envisaged some measures in order to avoid damage to agriculture, livestock and to villages in the environment of mining activities. In the XIX century, with a liberal State, several laws and mining regulations were slowly being adopted from the middle of the century, due to social conflicts, which introduced measures with health and natural protection effects. With a greater degree of state interventionism in the XX century, in a context of pressure from affected social groups, various sectoral rules for the protection of rivers and streams were approved. The Law of Mines in force introduced that it was approved by decree to fix the imperative conditions of protection of the environment, being the origin of the first Royal Decree of restoration of mining activities of 1982. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to investigate how the current handbooks in the field of teaching Spanish as a foreign language address the role that translation plays throughout the learning process, with special reference to the Italianspeaking context in which the learning of Spanish has gained considerable importance in the last decade. Taking into account six handbooks published in recent years, we will carry out a detailed analysis of their methodological structure, in order to find out what place translation occupies in the framework of communicative teaching and, subsequently, to reflect on the evolution of the often criticised grammar-translation method. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The metaphorization of motion verbs is a very common phenomenon at the interlinguistic level. In this paper, we examine the metaphorical uses of the Italian movement deictic verbs andare and venire. We delineate a semantic network to recognize the different processes of abstraction that have led to the evolution of the basic literal meaning of 'spatial displacement'. Our analysis evidences the relationships between the deictic and the actional features of the basic meaning of these verbs and their numerous metaphorical and metonymic ramifications. For its classification we have used the interpretive instruments, models and categories of Cognitive Linguistics (moving world, moving ego, subjectivization, etc.). After an introduction of the theoretical assumptions of our investigation, we analyze a corpus of examples from several sources: the Italian edition of A streetcar named desire by T. Williams (Williams, 1963), the corpus of the spoken Italian LIP (De Mauro, Mancini, Vedovelli, Voghera, 1993) and several Italian websites consulted via Google. These examples are part of a broader corpus that has been compiled for the contrastive study of the deictic motion verbs in Italian and Spanish. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In Joseph's bloodied coat, Velázquez refers to the envy Jacob's sons felt for the last but one of the brothers. Envy drove them to sell their brother as a slave and to pretend to their father that his son had died. Velázquez construes a perfectly articulated narrative through the space defined by two sticks lying on the ground, where he places the envious brothers according to their guilt. The work, painted during Velázquez's first trip to Italy, conceals messages regarding envy that are based on the biblical tale and on Ovidio's Metamorphosis. This paper endeavours to identify those references and to show how they are reflected in the picture. In this interpretation, the thorny stick between the legs of Judah, the sideways glance, the hand covering the mouth, the black garment and the shadowy space occupied by some of the figures acquire a new significance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper deals with the state of the question regarding the use of the subjunctive in Spanish, as well as with its different meanings in the headlines of digital sport journalism. It is in the sub-genre of the report where its presence is mostly felt, particularly in the quotes report. In this respect, it can be claimed that its use is inextricably linked to direct speech. Finally, it should be highlighted that certain argumentative operators such as quizá or ojalá, as well as certain contextual relationships of the subjunctive in set expressions such as puede que or no creo que, among others, influence the value of the subjunctive. The main objective is to determine the pragmatic values of the Spanish subjunctive mode in the headlines of the sports newspapers Marca, As, Sport and Mundo Deportivo in its digital version, as well as other secondary parameters such as its frequency of appearance in each subgenre, which diary does more use in this way in their headlines, what time is repeated more in general in sports journalism and in particular in each subgenre, or which allomorph is more common (-ra or -se). For this, the methodology will be to perform a pragmalinguistic analysis based on a corpus of 300 headlines that add up to 308 verbs in subjunctive mode. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents a study of Klingon, an artificial language created for artistic purposes for the fictional universe of the Star Trek series. First, we propose an introduction to the process of creating this design, paying attention to how it goes from a phase of xenolalia or foreign structured speech to a xenoglossy or authentic extraterrestrial language. Second, we perform a linguistic analysis of this system, taking into account its main phonological, morphosyntactic and lexical features. For this, the explanations provided by the author of the language, Marc Okrand, in The Klingon Dictionary and by Moreno Cabrera in Tratado didáctico y crítico de la Lingüística General are taken as references. This study allows us, finally, to observe the importance of natural languages in the configuration of the Klingon. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Spanish joke "Who is a Spanish person? Someone whose life is spent learning English", perfectly defines the Spanish general perception of their second language acquisition, which is usually English. According to a survey conducted by the national media, 65% of Spaniards recognize that they are not able to speak, read or write in that language and there is an eternal and complex dilemma of why this occurs in a country where many hours are dedicated to its study both at school and privately and also, where schooling in English begins at very early ages. In response to this dilemma of why Spaniards do not seem to acquire English as proficiently as their neighbours (there is a general belief that Portuguese or French speak English much better), there tend to coalesce diverse opinions such as the fact that audiovisual material is dubbed into Spanish, that there are not enough hours of study devoted to this language, that little importance is given to its study, etc. All of these opinions are perceived by the general public and even by some language teachers. However, not much importance is normally given to the way English is being taught and the learning methods which are used. The purpose of this paper is to analyze precisely which factors are involved in the solution to this dilema, especially regarding one of the latest attempts to improve this acquisition, the implementation of CLIL methodology, which is being made to improve younger generations' English proficiency. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The dialogues were some of the materials created for the learning of foreign languages in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. They included all those linguistic elements that the foreign student of Spanish had to learn, among them the knowledge of idiomatic sentences and the humor that, from its use, may appear. It is based on the hypothesis that verbal humor can be a learning element for foreign students. It is conceived as a discursive strategy that can be admitted in some textual types although these can not be characterized as humoristic. The objective of this paper is to analyze the linguistic form and the pragmatic implication of humor as an integral element of this textual type. To this end, a work corpus of 23 phraseological statements has been established. Both their forms and their meanings have been analyzed, as well as their possibilities of activating the humorous component in the dialogues. The result obtained is the confirmation of the starting hypothesis and the achievement of the formulated objectives: idiomatic sentences can be indicators of the appearance of humor in this textual type; they are integrated into the discursive strategy in which cultural aspects of the society that produces them are inserted and displayed, and for this reason they should be studied by the Spanish language learner. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents a theoretical approach to the study of the characters as rhetorical-argumentative discoursive constructions. This theory is based on two premises: 1) it is considered that epistemologicaly there is no possible differencing between "person" (ascribed a "real" world) and "characters" (belonging to a fictional world); and 2) it is argued that the "characters" are essentially "discursive identities". This theoretical proposal is framed within a contemporany global current in the study of the character from different disciplines (Eco, 2009, Konijn & Hoorn, 2005, Margolin, 1990, 2007, Schneider, 2001). This theoretical approach to the study of the characters as rhetorical-argumentative discoursive constructions takes from them in an integrating manner different approaches that, subsequently, shape under the theoreticalmethodological framework offered by the Constructivist Rhetoric (Pujante Sánchez, 2018). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims the analysis of the intervocalic /d/ in the discourse of the Andalusian presidents of the Government and ministers in Madrid between 1923 and 2011. We are interested to observe if the Andalusian speakers of a high sociocultural stratum in the capital loss or maintain the intervocalic /d/, taking into account different linguistic variables that may influence it, and also contrasting the results with a series of social variables. Our objective is to obtain concrete data of the behaviour of this phenomenon when coming into contact with a more conservative variety of Spanish, but also more normative and prestigious. The results achieved reveal a convergence towards the national standard, with a great maintenance of the intervocalic /d/, turning out several factors, both linguistic and social, significant in the choice of one or another solution. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the first part of this paper, we report some myths of the Vedic India, classical Greece, and Ancient Egypt about a divinity who burns or sinks a child victim in order to making him immortal. In the second section, we provide new versions of this plot that have been reported in recent times; one of them in the form of a ballad -in Transylvania and the Moldavian Romania- and the other in the form of a folk-tale -in a small village in the Algerian Atlas. At the end of this article, we present some conclusions regarding the content and the branches of this plot. In that section, we discuss some considerations about the deities and the victims of these stories, and describe, as well, the rituals of propitiation of immortality that are mentioned in them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper deals with the acclaimed TV series Games of Thrones, which belongs to the genre of epic fantasy, as well as the literary saga. Three of its most important constituents are addressed: the abduction of a woman (Lyanna Stark) as the war's motif, the epic hero (embodied by Jon Snow) and the violation of the sacred duty of hospitality (represented by the episodes of the Red Wedding and the Mutiny at Craster's Keep). Their impact on the plot is highlighted. Moreover, we analyze the common features this elements share with some Greek myths narrated or mentioned in different Graeco-Roman literary works, especially epic and tragic ones. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents the post-qualitative approach as an opportunity to rethink the meaning of research from positions which have not always been considered to be legitimate; from perspectives that move us from zones of stability to perspectives which place us within a problematic position, one that stimulates thought and generates ontological, epistemological, methodological and ethical displacements. For this purpose, we present the onto/epistemological and methodological assumptions which guide this research as well as how the adoption of a post-qualitative perspective helped us to rethink and reconfigure our positions as researchers, professors and artists during the developing processes of two doctoral theses. We look at the post-qualitative as a perspecti ve in which we reconceptualize the ways of doing and thinking inquiry and how to explain it. A perspective that allows us to conduct a different kind of research, to reformulate and rethink notions of qualitative research, and create new concepts which aim to go beyond the trend of domestication that has taken place in social research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Public policies and mass tourism have promoted new urban logic associated with the gentrification process, which includes real estate speculation and the commercialization of public space. For the contextualization of this problem, which implies the relationship between residents, tourists and real estate agents / tourists, was chosen the La Barceloneta neighbourhood, in whose scenario it is observed how the demand of the visitors disagrees with the needs of the residents and how tourism activities affect the daily lives of its citizens. Likewise, this paper evaluates the socio-territorial impacts that cause a greater level of neighbourhood rejection, as well as claims and protests that require the regulation of housing for tourist use (VUT) and the use of public space, which has been achieved, although not entirely, through the approval of the PEUAT. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper we have carried out a diachronic analysis about land uses evolution in Oliva through a mixed method of research, based on photo-interpretation of aerial images (years 1956, 1991, 2015) using GIS techniques, on the one hand, and by means of a comprehensive bibliographic and field work, on the other hand. From this multimethod analysis, urban development and territorial dynamics are studied in a coastal paradigmatic municipality to explain the urbanistic development of the Valencian Mediterranean coast in the last decades. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]