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Copyright of Revista de Treball Social is the property of Col·legi Oficial de TreballSocial de Catalunya and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)

Copyright of Revista de Treball Social is the property of Col·legi Oficial de TreballSocial de Catalunya and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)

Copyright of Revista de Treball Social is the property of Col·legi Oficial de TreballSocial de Catalunya and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)

Copyright of Revista de Treball Social is the property of Col·legi Oficial de TreballSocial de Catalunya and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)

The "Nationalism" entry in Diccionari per a ociosos, by Joan Fuster, develops, based on the finding in the Diccionari Aguiló of the term nationist [nacionista], an essay on Catalan collective identity in the modern era. According to Fuster, the existence of a term like this in the Catalan language long before the construction of modern national ideologies began anywhere in Europe reveals in an almost premonitory sense the Catalan national condition, halfway between the "excellent" peoples, like France, and the "frustrated" ones, like Occitania. Fuster deployed his hypothesis, however, without having checked the context of the source quoted by Marià Aguiló, a Dominican convent chronicle from the beginning of the 17th century: Lumen Domus. In this paper, we retrace the route Fuster did not take to understand the sense in which this unique witness to term nationist in the Catalan language appears. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes Domènec Guansé's critical attention to travel literature in Catalan newspapers, which experiences a major revival from middle 1920's to the beginning of the Spanish Civil War. The introduction of that genre in Catalan literature is part of a wider context encouraging all ways of cultural modernity, such as magazines or non-fiction books. Guansé looks in detail at the most outstanding works by Nicolau M. Rubió i Tudurí, Enric Blanco and specially Aurora Bertrana. Her Paradisos oceànics is a milestone in travel books, both for its quality and documentary value and for non-literary issues: primarily the writer's female condition (paradigm of the new cultural role that women have to play) and the cosmopolitanism that it adds to literary circles. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper we will address some topics related to the right dislocation (RD) phenomenon, based on evidence from Catalan. First, we will analyze contextual and semantic restrictions on the antecedent of RD. On contextual restrictions, it will be proposed that the properties suggested in former research that RD antecedents must fulfill regarding accessibility (local, non-local, or inferable) exhaust all possibilities, and hence there is no restriction on the accessibility of the antecedent. On the semantic side, we will check out two possible relations (monotonicity and bridging) between the RD constituent and its antecedent. Next, we try to address the interpretative role of RD, where emphasis will be introduced as a general property of all RD. And finally, it will be argued that in a focus-final language, a non-final focus is emphatic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper proposes to divide the sociolinguistic history of the Catalan language in the 19th century into three periods: a first period that would still be characterized by the linguistic ideologies of the Ancien Régime; a second period in which the ideology of the Renaixença, of regionalist Catalanism, would predominate; and a third period in which Catalanism, already consolidated, would promote a recovery of all sociolinguistic spheres for Catalan. To illustrate the ideologies of each of these three periods, a representative grammar is analysed ideologically: Josep Pau Ballot for the first, Antoni de Bofarull for the second and Pompeu Fabra for the third. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper studies and edits the Capritxo by Friar Tomàs Roca, an almost unknown work of Catalan Baroque prose. The Capritxo is a 17th-century epistolary novel copied in the ms. 788 of the Biblioteca Valenciana Nicolau Primitiu. Due to its characteristics, this work can be compared to the Estil·lades i amoroses lletres trameses per Bertomeu Cirlot a la sua senyora i per ella a ell. The Capritxo consists of three letters written by the graduate Sophistice plus a response from the Dr Syncathegorematice to the first mail of the former. This exchange of letters draws a story about the misfortunes of two rogues sentenced to galleys. Several Latin words, especially adverbial phrases, are regularly inserted into Capritxo's Catalan text, thus parodying the scholastic and grandiloquent language of theologians and magistrates, and joking with wordplays which may be related to the meaning of both senders' names. Moreover, the Capritxo criticizes not only the disproportionate severity of the torture and the sentences applied against many galley prisoners, but also the inhibition of some powerful people faced with such injustices. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper analyses simple tri-argumental causative sentences with Catalan psych verbs of interest (aficionar 'to take up', apassionar 'to be passionate about', entusiasmar 'to be thrilled', il·lusionar 'to get excited by', interessar 'to be interested in') that do not fulfil Pesetsky's Target/Subject Matter (T/SM) Restriction (1995): L'Arnau va interessar la Meritxell {en/per} la literatura ('Arnau interested Meritxell in literature'). They are considered to have a complex bi-clausal argumental structure identical to that of sentences with the causative periphrasis fer 'make' + infinitive, but with the verb fer being silent. Both contain a dominant event nucleus vDOP and a defective functional domain (CP, TP and VoiceP) in the infinitive clause. This structure is compared with that of causatives with a subordinate clause introduced with the conjunction que 'that', which have a dominant event nucleus vGOP, and a complete functional domain (CP and TP). Lastly, this structure can be given more lexical content to form a periphrasis with a modal verb or equivalent, the structure of which is also analysed, together with that of constructions with other periphrases that have a pronominal psych verb in the subordinate clause. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Over the last 25 years, the research carried out on the use of northwestern scripta (written medieval Aragonese) in 14th- and 15th-century documentation found in La Franja (Aragon), has provided us with very interesting data. However, these works have focused on describing the written language of a set of manuscripts, rather than on comparing documents originating from different areas in this territory. The aim of this paper is to confirm that there are differentiating features between the manuscripts from Ribagorza (Huesca) and those from Matarraña (Teruel), which demonstrate that diatopic variation already existed in those times, and also give us an insight into what the living language of that time was like in those regions. Always, of course, with the caution one must apply when attempting to establish the features of different dialects that existed in medieval times. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A growing interest in the study of sign language linguistics deals with how the differences between the visual-gestural modality and the vocal-auditory modality affect the acquisition of a sign language by adults whose first language is a spoken language. This paper presents a pilot study on the acquisition of two essential and, to a large extent, specific characteristics of signed languages used in reference control: the nonmanual markers in role shift structures and classifiers. The comparison between native discourse in Catalan Sign Language (LSC) and adult learners of LSC as L2 with different levels of competence provides a careful insight into how these two reference mechanisms are used in the acquisition process. The present study analyses reference control in L2 signed discourse in terms of reference accessibility and the discussion is placed at the syntax-discourse interface. The detailed analysis shows how nonmanuals of role shift and classifiers play an important role in reference control, which implies an important position in the accessibility scale of discourse referents. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper analyzes several markers of opposition or contrast in the essay Diccionari per a ociosos (Dictionary for the idle) by Joan Fuster and in its translations to Spanish, English, Italian and French. It adopts a contrastive stylistic perspective that takes into account the genre of this book and studies the discursive construction of the author's ethos. The paper examines firstly the main concessive constructions (including concessive conditionals) and connectives contained in the essay, contrasting them with the choices made by translators. Later, it includes other oppositive/contrastive discourse markers within the texts examined. Furthermore, it characterizes the degree of grammaticalization reached by these markers in each language. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes the intertextual relationship between the writers Rubem Fonseca and Quim Monzó, taking as a starting point a reference to a collection of short stories by the Brazilian author found in the novel Benzina. It is shown that some thematic and stylistic features commonly attributed to the fact that Monzó is afflicted with Tourette Syndrome are, in fact, features shared with Fonseca and with a number of literary traditions and conventions. Therefore, and without denying the influence of pathologies in the act of creation, the role of textual and philological analysis is vindicated at the time of providing causal explanations concerning specific attributes present in a writer’s work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Copyright of Manuscrits: Revista d'Historia Moderna is the property of Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)

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Copyright of Revista de Treball Social is the property of Col·legi Oficial de TreballSocial de Catalunya and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)

Book clubs - a phenomenon that comes from afar - have experienced remarkable quantitative and qualitative expansion lately. This paper aims at describing the deployment of book clubs in Catalonia, the Valencian Country and the Balearic Islands for the first time. The research is based on a survey carried out among the public libraries of the three territories and intends to describe the main features of this phenomenon, including the linguistic uses in this particular context. The results show a different degree of deployment of book clubs, which is a more ingrained and diversified phenomenon in Catalonia than in the other territories. The comparative study of the characteristics of book clubs allows us to suggest strategies to facilitate the expansion of book clubs in the Valencian Country and the Balearic Islands. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The website is a publishing house's most powerful tool when it comes to sharing news and promoting catalogues, collections and writers. This papers aims to measure to what extent the situation of Catalan-language publishing companies' virtual shop windows is suitable. In other words, the soundness, versatility and efficiency of these publishing websites, which host both audiovisual and written information and link it to other content and environments, is assessed. The research's structure stems from the effective application of a specific analysis template designed by Lluch and Escandell (2016 and 2018). Lluch and Escandell's proposal considers a typologically diverse group of websites involving all the Catalan-language publishers to authoritatively ascertain how these companies stock their virtual shop windows and how they communicate the content hosted there. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The research presented in this paper discusses booktubers who use Catalan in their channels, the spaces that they create, the books that they recommend and the language that they use. Studies that fall within this research use the term "booktuber" to identify teenagers or young people who use YouTube's tools to make reading recommendations to their peers, something that always takes place on the side lines of channels and initiatives led by school administrations, librarians and institutions related to reading. The findings of the investigation confirm that the phenomenon of "Catalan (-language) booktuber" is not a reality but a virtual construct created by institutions and the press. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In recent years, Twitter has gone from being a social network with rather banal content to a powerful channel for the dissemination of information and content promotion. For this reason, in this paper we present the study of some of the data that Séntisis extracted from Twitter about the Sant Jordi Festival (World Book Day & Rose) 2017, which shows a sort of map of place of our book industry. We also offer some ideas about its potential as a space for experimentation with literature and reading, in accordance with the new models of cultural practice proposed by Jenkins (2003 and 2008, with the concept of transmedia and that of participatory culture, respectively) and Scolari (2016, with the idea of the translector), among others. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This work presents a theoretical model aimed to account for several cognitive mechanisms crucial for lexical generation or selection. A system of categories and transformations is posited to account for the different modes of reference to entities in the construction of discourse. This model synthesises and integrates already existent accounts of cognitive categories and transformations in a unified directional construct. In this paper the model is applied to Catalan. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article studies the new conception of space (spatiality) as a sociodiscursive construction and the application of this notion in literature. The meaning of place is distinguished from those of landscape, territory and abstract space. The concepts of geocriticism (Bertrand Westphal), heterotopia (Michel Foucault) and chronotope (Mikhail Bakhtin) are used to explain the functions of spatiality (Robert Tally) in literature. After referring to various studies on the literary representation of places like the house, the sanatorium or the environment of death, this paper concludes with an analysis of the movie theaters in Catalan literature and, especially, in the poetry of Vicent Andrés Estellés (1924-1993). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]