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The general opinion about Chinese students of Spanish is openly negative, since, due to their characteristics, it is very difficult for teachers to involve them in the practices of current participatory methodologies. In this paper we present the result of our research on the reality of this student based on the review of a important bibliography, as well as the data obtained from a case study. As can be seen, without dismissing that general opinion about these students, we do show that these characteristics are neither immovable nor do they have to be seen as negative, but quite the opposite, since they give rise to a student with an enormous capacity for effort and eager to know new educational practices, something that we can take advantage of using an eclectic method that combines methodologies. In order to verify these appraisals, we carried out a case study with which we wanted to know the impression of a group of students about our proposal and that we present in this paper with the aim of showing the myths and truths around this student and that we hope will be to help teachers of Spanish as a foreign language who meet them in their classrooms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to analyse a corpus of 137 texts published between 1888 and 1899. These texts are included in one of the most successful Spanish-language newspapers published in the United States during the second half of the nineteenth century: Las Novedades (New York, 1876-1918). In the analysis I will determine the linguistic ideologies and the discursive strategies used for the promotion of Hispanism and Spanish language in a sociopolitical context in which the Spanish hegemony was losing all its power at an international level. Thus, the ideologies found are divided in two different categories: the linguistic ideologies that give the language a cultural value and the linguistic ideologies that make reference to the economic and commercial value of the language. The results obtained from this analysis will contribute to understand the role of Spanish language in the United States. Furthermore, this paper presents an unpublished corpus of clear historiographic interest that contributes to clarify the panorama of Hispanism in a country like the United States. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents the results of the initial phase (O1) of the European Project LSP Teacher Training Summer School (TRAILs), made up of eight partners: teachers of Languages for Specific Purposes (LSP) from seven European Universities and a British consultancy firm specialized in the quality of education research (Arcola). The main objective of the project is the training of LSP teachers and the development of skills to promote an innovative and high-quality teaching, based on the identified gaps and the existing dysfunctions between the training required by these teachers and the actual offering of courses. This paper identifies and analyses the training courses for LSP teachers offered in countries from the European Higher Education Area, with special emphasis in Spain. A standardized questionnaire was designed to gather the information available in the training programs of more than 1000 higher education institutions and universities in 25 countries. The results show that the offer is quite scarce and very eclectic and heterogeneous regarding formats, teaching methodology, learning outcomes and evaluation methods. These results reinforce the need to create the standard European pilot program for teacher training in LSP that emerged from this project. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper, by means of a hermeneutic method supported by documentary review, states that, takin intent into consideration, it is no possible a discourse simultaneously political and ironic. It has five sections: first, an analysis of the posture assuming the use of irony in political discourse. Second, a profile of the ironist and his presence in politics as troublesome. Third, the negative and private function or use of irony stressing its political impropriety. Fourth, three types proper of political discourse, which exclude and replace irony: parrhesía, cynicism and post-truth. Finally, the paper closes explaining the political inadequateness of irony. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper describes and analyses, from a sociolinguistic point of view, the frequency of the phenomenon of the depalatalization of the voiced palatal nasal phoneme in the Spanish spoken in Montevideo. For the purpose of this paper, a survey comprising 150 respondents has been conducted -taking into account age, sex and sociocultural level variables-. The results demonstrate the recent existence of the process of dephonologization in the Spanish spoken in this city. At the same time, the results are described according to the recorded variables and, furthermore, are based on the phonic context and the prosodic characteristics in which the process of elimination of the palatal character of the aforementioned phoneme is manifested. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, which lies on the scope of translation of Children's and Adolescent Literature (CAL), I put forward a theoretical proposal derived from the reflection on the traditional dycothomy target-oriented versus source-oriented translation. Thus, I firstly present a brief introduction on the translation of CAL. Secondly, I review the major theoretical postulates of the two extremes so far discussed in Translation Studies between which the different methodological options for translation are activated. Thirdly, I analyse both theoretical approaches in the specific context of CAL. Fourthly and last, I describe and justify the conceptual and terminological proposal: invasive translation versus noninvasive translation. The paper ends with a summary of the reflections previously made on some of the preceding binary models, a synthesis of the arguments upon which the proposal is based and an invitation to participate in the debate. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Phraseology represents a recognized and relevant field in the teaching of the Spanish language and culture. Religion is an essential part of culture and as such it is reflected in many phraseological units (PU) that should have a place in learning a foreign language. Language and culture are inseparable for a native speaker as opposed to a foreign student who needs an integrated teaching of language and culture. For this paper, we have selected a PU with a religious cultural component that may be interesting for students of Spanish as a foreign language (ELE): colgarle a alguien el sambenito 'stigmatise sy' (literally: 'hang the sanbenito on sy'). To justify our choice, we have studied the frequency of this phrase in different situations and socio-cultural contexts during a period of five years (2012-2016) in several Spanish digital newspapers, including El País, El Mundo, ABC, La Vanguardia, Ideal and Marca. For this purpose, it was our initial assumption that a look at the frequency of this phrase in the digital press will help us identify its use. This paper seeks to extrapolate the results to applied linguistics, specifically, applied phraseology in Spanish, since phraseological competence improves not only communicative competence but also knowledge about Spanish culture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper we present a comparative study between El valiente justiciero o El ricohombre de Alcalá by Agustín Moreto (1657) and the Dionisio Solís' recasting (1811), a 19th century playwright. This recasting has not been studied previously, except for a brief structural analysis of the play. In this way, we will offer a comparative study between the Baroque play and the homonymous recasting, in order to establish the similarities and differences between both plays and trying to justify the changes introduced by the recaster. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The following paper aims to analyse the production of the Andalusian rapper and poet Ana Isabel Llorente, better known by her pseudonym, Gata Cattana. Firstly, we present her biography and the context in which her artistic career is inserted (2012-2017), developed under circumstances highly conditioned by the economic and socio-political events caused by the Great recession of 2008. A political intention is recognized in her work that, conveyed under a hybrid poetic identity (poet, rapper, and political scientist), points towards a feminist and republican ideology, linked to Spanish historical memory. Secondly, we propose the theoretical framework for a convenient approach to her work. On the one hand, we use the notions established by the authors who have studied the semiotic trace in the text through interdiscursivity and, on the other, the ideas of those who have laid the foundations for the study of the language of hip-hop through stylistic and regional variations as conscious choices of the speaker in a search for authenticity proper to the genre. Finally, the development of interdiscursivity, the combination of styles (educated and colloquial) and the expression of Andalusian variety in Cattana's production are displayed with concrete examples, where the author expresses that triple identity that makes her voice unique in the field of Spanish hip-hop. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This research paper develops an analysis of orality as a narrative resource in Ricardo Zelarayán's poetics. After a brief introduction to the objectives of this work and to the bibliography that, up to now, has dealt with this author, still meager outside Argentina, two sections are displayed corresponding to two scenes from the first chapter of Lata peinada, an unfinished novel that Laura Estrin edited in 2008 with the author's help. The reasons why these scenes, as enigmatic as revealing, have been chosen are the reproduction they make of the traditional tension between popular culture and literate culture and the fact that they allow the elucidation of a Zelarayanian author's figure. The results that this textual exegesis will illuminate are, on the one hand, that the voice occupies a preeminent place in the poetics of Zelarayán compared to the letter, as will be seen from the first scene, and the orphanhood that defines the writer's trade, whose poetics isolates him from the literate tradition. Collaterally, attention will be paid to the method of construction of the characters in the novel, the importance of the etymology of their names, traditional music as a narrative resource, or the presence of the «young orphan» motif, typical of the Latin American narrative of between centuries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Corpas Pastor (2008: 89) notes that corpus linguistics is considered a valid methodological approach to language studies, relevant to both translation and interpreting insofar that it can be used to analyse and describe a wide range of discourse types, reflect on translation units and re-examine the concept of equivalence. Taking as its starting point the fact that it is possible to work with corpora in such varied undertakings as researching language variations, performing professional translation/interpreting tasks and developing language teaching methods, this paper describes the stages involved in comparing and contrasting the original script for the film Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis and its dubbed and subtitled renderings in Spanish. We highlight the importance of properly preparing subject material to be able to make the most of its potential. In this particular case, we used the Final Draft, AntConc and WinAlign programmes to analyse the texts in depth, easily identify segments of interest and create translation units: a systematic method which enables research into Audiovisual Translation to be carried out in a rigorous manner. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The image of the heart regularly appears in our daily lives: it decorates multiple everyday objects, such as clothing, logos, shop windows, and it appears on graffiti. Additionally, it is ubiquitous in the digital world, as the "like" button is often in the shape of a heart. The aim of this paper is to identify the reasons why the image of the heart is so widespread, and the functions performed by its representation. In order to do so, we carried out a linguistic and semiotic landscape study, by analysing a large corpus of images of hearts, collected in the urban landscape and on the Internet. The results show that the hearts found in the two corpora perform all language functions identified by Jakobson (1984); the main contexts of use of the heart are the expression of love, appreciation, and gratitude. Finally, we comment on the "transfer" of functions of the heart from street to screen and vice versa. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to analyze the effects of the typographical variations in the novel Historia de un bribón dichoso, by Ramón Piña, in its different editions. In addition to describing the transformations conditioned by the evolution of the language itself and the orthotypographic adaptations, this work assesses the implications that these may have for the transmission history of the text in question. The analysis is undertaken from a transdisciplinary point of view, using the methods of Textual Criticism, Textology, Orthotypography and Linguistics. From the location and dating of each edition and the elaboration of the Stemma codicum or genealogical tree of the work, we proceeded to a simultaneous comparison in order to identify the variations. Subsequently, the phenomena found were classified and tabulated, especially the variations of a typographical nature. The detailed study showed as a result the presence of multiple transformations resulting from the evolution of language and typography, and also from the editorial process. A considerable part of these changes affect the meaning of the text and its transmission history. The above allows concluding, in the first place, that a special attention is imposed to this work from the field of textual criticism, besides, it constitutes an alert call to Cuban philology about the need to pay attention to the principles of textology in the editorial praxis and philological analysis in general sense. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper deals with the ideological appropriation of ecological topics and concepts in hegemonic discourses, a process through which business and political discourses in Spain (and possibly in the international scene) are reinterpreting 'green' ideas and making them their own. Thus, the ecological ideology once antithetical to large transnational/multinational energetic companies and conservative governments' ideals is now used by them, reinforcing and legitimating these companies and governments' actions, even when they are clearly contrary to green claims. Bearing this complex context in mind, the goal of the paper is to analyse two case studies of advertising campaigns intended for children: Repsol's campaign 'Mission Future', and 'Hunter for a Day', campaign produced by the Castilla y León Hunting Federation (with funding from the Castilla y León Government). Within the theoretical and methodological frame of constructivist rhetoric, our analysis aims to explain, first, how both advertising campaigns reinterpret ecological contents on their behalf, and, second, how new concepts (metaphors, in particular) are created in the process, i.e. blending concepts which illustrate the fusion between green ideals and hegemonic ideology in power discourses. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The exit of the United Kingdom from the European Union, popularly known as Brexit, has a great media coverage in Spain. Thus, this paper analyses the journalistic treatment and the ideological bias that this political event received. To do this, a study of the semantic prosody of the term 'Brexit' in the Spanish press was carried out. The study covers a broad period of time, from the exit referendum in June 2016 to the second extension in October 2019. To achieve the analysis, a corpus for specific purposes was compiled made up of the most widely read newspapers in Spain according to the Estudio General de Medios. Specifically, four generalist newspapers (El País, El Mundo, La Vanguardia and ABC) and three economic newspapers (Expansión, Cinco Días and El Economista). The data obtained showed that Brexit received mostly negative coverage in all newspapers, especially economic newspapers that presented a greater number of negative co-occurrences with the term Brexit. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Based on the data from our corpus and survey, this paper aims to analyse a series of Chinese grammatical errors frequently made by Spanish students, in the light of theories of contrastive analysis and error analysis. We focus our analysis on the errors of six categories (polysemic correspondence, omission, order, collocation, classifier and deixis), and try to identify their possible causes. Lastly, we also offer some strategies in the hope of facilitating the Chinese learning in Spanish-speaking countries, as well as shedding some lights on the Chinese teaching and investigation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper it to analyze the concept of "writing style" from the perspective of "creativity", and confronting it with the institutional concept of style, which affects corporations, groups, etc. It is about establishing a differential model and to consider the consequences on the reading comprehension of this institutional communication model. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper we shall address the Murcian language that appears in several novels of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in the Region of Murcia in order to verify if it constitutes a real sample of the Spanish language spoken in Murcia. To achieve this aim, we shall carry out a historical review to understand the origin of Murcian regionalism and the intellectual movement that emerged at the end of the 19th century. The regionalism born in Murcia in the nineteenth century is a twofold phenomenon, namely, both a political and cultural regionalism. Political regionalism, on the one hand, will be related to the Canton of Cartagena, a federalist insurrection that took place on July 12, 1783 whose goal was to proclaim itself as an independent canton. Cultural regionalism, on the other hand, is intimately tied to the association of the Murcian dialect with the so-called panocho, satirical speech of the Huerta de Murcia among whose predecessors include: Pedro Díaz Cassou, José Martínez Tornel and Andrés Blanco y García. This cultural and intellectual movement aims at promoting a regional identity of Murcia, mainly focusing on a linguistic identity and Murcia's customs and traditions. In addition, it will be worth stressing the great the importance of social stratification in explaining the regional and linguistic identity, since most of Murcia's society came from rural environments with a low level of education. Finally, we also mean to provide a considerable amount of reliable linguistic data which contributes to the studies on the nineteenth-century Spanish language, one of the most little studied within the discipline of History of the Spanish Language. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The analysis of Golden Age Erotic Poetry is a field of study that has been booming in recent years. However, a deep understanding of its methods together with the recovering of texts and their decryption it is yet needed. This is the case of Jerónimo de Barrionuevo, an understudied author concerning his poetic production. Thereby, this paper focuses on four of his (unpublished) erotic poems, which radiate from Petrarchan tradition to end "deviating" towards more lustful spheres. However, that subversion is not far away from the dominant poetic system, for it is actually one of the many possibilities of the model variation induced by the system itself. The purpose is to present some of Barrionuevo's unpublished verses and study how the erotic subversion is performed in them, in addition to clarifying and explaining the erotic images and metaphors used by the author in this process. Whatsoever, this work follows the line of the latest studies which try to expand the lexicon of erotic voices of the Spanish Baroque, as for example the recent Vocabulario del ingenio erótico en la poesía española de los Siglos de Oro (2020) by Javier Blasco and Cristina Ruiz Urbón. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper offers a reflection on the inclusion of the gender perspective in the university classroom, specifically, within the compulsory subject of Strategies for communication in multilingual groups of the Degree in Social Education at the University of Almería (Spain). In this, a didactic training proposal for Social Education students is proposed from the parameters of Critical Discourse Analysis to determine what discursive strategies the Spanish press uses to refer to refugee-type migrants, especially women. For this, the corpus created by the R + D DIPURE Project (The Public Discourse on Refugees in Spain) was used, since we consider that the results of the analysis will collaborate in recognizing possible stereotypes and prejudices that can be transmitted in this public discourse of the media, in this case Spanish, to be able to be combated and overcome in the framework of a democratic society that pursues equity and equality between women and men. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the present paper it has been performed an investigation on the musical terminology in the academic Dictionary of the Spanish Language. This research will reveal how this dictionary employs the technical mark "Mús." to identify all those terms which are directly or tangentially linked to the musical disciplinary field. To address such study, the macrostructure and microstructure of this academic work have been analysed from a synchronic and diachronic perspective; it means, from the first edition ('Dictionary of Authorities') to the last one (the twenty-third publication of this dictionary). Therefore, these editions have been scrutinised as well as the presence or absence of the aforementioned technical mark "Mus." has been checked in each of the dictionary entries of the different editions of the normative repertoire. Likewise, an analysis has been carried out on the different considerations that must be articulated with respect to specialised terminologies in addition to the criteria considered, according to different authors, to interpret that a word belongs to a particular technical discipline or, on the contrary, this term has undergone a semantic extension that allows it to be part of the common lexicon. In this analysis we have reflected on the lexicographical treatment that the terms coined in our language have received to baptize the realities belonging to the field of music; that is, if these words have been duly included in the general dictionaries (both academic and those that pertain to unscientific lexicography), if they have been the focus of a specialised monographic work or, by contrast, if they have been condemned to continuous belittlement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of the present paper is to analyse the state of Medical Spanish in two monolingual dictionaries (Dictionary of the Spanish Language of RAE and Dictionary of Spanish Use by María Moliner). Moreover, the entries will be compared in two other medical dictionaries which are available on-line (Diccionario médico-biológico, histórico y etimológico and the dictionary of PortalesMedicos). The object of this study are thirty definitions related to semantic field of sports massage: the focus of research will be also on studying the occurrance of the terms of corpus and whether the entries have labels and what kinds of them (of medicine, biology, physiotherapy or others). The result of the carried-out research is that definitions from corpus not always meet one of the fundamental principle of the scientific language -- to be monosemous. Using the labels in the analysed field is inconsistent and diverse. Neither physiotherapy nor medicine are the most often occurring labels. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Within the research on reception of Medea in Literature and Art, this paper studies the play Medea Redux, a recreation of Euripides' Medea by the controversial American playwright Neil Labute (1999). Through a comparative analysis between Labute's and Euripides' texts, the procedures followed by Labute to 'appropriate' the ancient mythos are studied, in order to conclude on the aspects that interest the modern author and on the areas in which he innovates. This is done both in terms of the mythical story itself and the characters, and in terms of the elimination or conservation of certain formal aspects of the ancient tragedy. A connection is also established between Labute's theatre (in Medea Redux but also in Helter Skelter, a 2008 play also inspired by the Greek Medea) and the moral background of the Euripidean Tragedy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the Spanish-speaking community, there is currently an increasing awareness of the diversity of existing norms in Spanish. The new RAE and ASALE policy, which is pan-Hispanic in nature and defends the polycentricity of the language, points in this direction. The recurring question about which Spanish to teach and the proper integration of geolectal varieties in SFL curricula continue to be discussed by specialists. However, not yet all the actors participating in the teaching-learning process are equally aware of this plurinormative character of Spanish and may be unconscious transmitters of erroneous linguistic ideologies. The study of the students' linguistic attitudes and beliefs towards the geographical varieties of Spanish, especially in a heteroglossic context, such as Taiwanese, can guide us on how this teaching work is being carried out. In this paper, we present an approach to the linguistic beliefs and attitudes of Taiwanese university students of SFL based on the concept of linguistic prestige. To do this, we start from a mentalist conception of attitudes and develop a qualitative research based on interviews and discussion groups. This research registered a majority positive attitude towards the Castilian variety and generally negative attitudes towards the other varieties, both European and American. These attitudes are based on series of erroneous beliefs and prejudices that seem to be being transmitted by the academic community. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, an analysis of the morphological and semantic behaviour of the English formant-exit is presented. This apheresis, whose origin is located in the term Brexit, seems to have become a productive element for word creation. Therefore, the objective of this work is to find out it this element also has the same capacity in Spanish, in particular, in journalistic language. The conclusions are that-exit does have a presence in neologisms in the Spanish press mainly for expressive purposes. The semantic value acquired in Spanish is 'exit of x from an institution or organization', but especially with a negative nuance 'abrupt, drastic, unilateral exit'. Its morphological behaviour places this element, like others such as-gate or-landia, at the limit between formation processes and therefore it seems more accurate to call it a suffixoid. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study sets out to determine the extent to which socalled "artificial Edens" were present in the literary works of Joaquín Dicenta and how they manifested in the bohemian life attributed to this author. One of the key pieces when analysing this question will be El Crimen de Ayer (1908), in which the author recreates the bohemian lifestyle of French literato Henry Murger, adapting it to the modern vices of his contemporary age. A modernity in which ether was quaffed in elegant cosmopolitan cocktails, and opium was carried in little glass phials. All these scenes are portrayed in Dicenta's novel, who also refers, in other works, to the effects of consuming ether and opium in men and women. Furthermore, this paper seeks to ascertain the extent to which Joaquín Dicenta was in tune with that modernity when he talks about these drugs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present study focuses on false friends-words with a similar form but different meanings--in both English and Spanish. Eight pairs of false friends have been analysed, paying special attention to their etymologies and their semantic derivations produced from their common etyma up to their current definitions in each language. The selected terms are some lesser studied forms, due to their less frequent useor to their dealing with a taboo meaning. In addition, with help of etymological dictionaries, these forms are presented from a diachronic perspective, scarcely studied and barely resorted to in language teaching traditionally. Nevertheless, in this paper it is argued that the diachronic approach is the best way to understand these words synchronically and hence it is desirable to avoid their study by heart in form of lists. In the search for a link between both languages, an explanation for the meanings of these words has been found, and with it, a significant method by which to make an easier and more effective acquisition orlearning. Our purpose is that this outline can help those researchers that in the future intend to work in these new alternatives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Sex, porn and video games are cultural elements of great importance and consumption. Additionally, a critical and artistic movement called post-porn has emerged in recent years and seeks to create new forms of experimenting sexual pleasure as well as non-normative porn in order to visibilize and empower both women and sexual minorities. The present paper aims to explore the intersection between sex and porn with video games, spaces historically conceived for male use. To that end, we provide an overview of the representation of sex and we analyze if there are examples of works that could be considered post-pornographic in video games. We conclude that the presentation of sex in this medium is still cisheterocentric and catering to the male gaze but that the existence of some post-pornographic practices illustrates the potential that video games have to dismantle gender and sexual stereotypes. [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]

In the last decades, it has been revealed that semantic categories are flexible and that they evolve constantly. The aim of this paper is to explore how the polisemy of the verb llevar is structured. For this purpose, our study is based on the parameters of the diachronic prototype semantics proposed by Geeraerts (1997), who place the keys to explain the configuration of lexical polisemy in the diachrony. Therefore, we have carried out a historical study of the verb llevar thanks to the analysis of a corpus taken from the CORDE. The results are analysed, on one hand, from a quantitative perspective, in order to show the age and the frequency of each meaning of the verb llevar. On the other hand, from a qualitative perspective, each semantic change that llevar has experienced throughout its history are described on the basis of the examples of our corpus. In order to describe the semantic changes, we will also use other tools from cognitive semantics, such us the image schema theory and the conceptual metaphor theory. All this leads to demonstrate that the current polisemy of llevar is the result of a historical process of semasiological expansion from one central or prototypical meaning [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Recent theoretical and methodological postulates in the field of foreign language teaching point to language mediation as a "fifth skill". It is, therefore, an integrated skill that must be developed in students as well as reception and production skills, if we are to create not only linguistically competent speakers, but also social agents who know how to deal with in various intercultural contexts. In this paper, we intend to address the pedagogical effectiveness of linguistic mediation in the teaching of Spanish as a foreign language (ELE), making a contribution to the evaluation process of a task of oral linguistic mediation between related languages (Spanish-Italian) in the field of secondary and university education. Thus, after providing a theoretical and methodological framework regarding the development of the mediation activity, we will elaborate a suitable pattern to evaluate the student's performance [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper deals with the difficulties of the humour teaching-learning process within the educational context of teaching Spanish as a foreign language (SFL). This aspect is essential in the full progress of the pragmatic competence and it is a fundamental component of the communicative competence that the student of a foreign language (FL) or a second language (L2) must be able to develop. Therefore, we will analize what are the problems that underlie the didactic units which have been developed in order to determine the main keys to reach a satisfactory humoristic didactic unit. Moreover, a stand-up comedy didactic unit will be proposed and the results that this didactic unit has obtained in the SFL class will be commented. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, on the basis of the Conventional Figurative Language Theory of Dobrovol'skij and Piirainen (2005), we focus on the symbolic background in the metaphorical use of the figure of the mandarin duck, and the traces of its symbolisms in the figurative expressions, from a linguo-cultural perspective. First, we collect a sample of idioms and verses from ancient poems related to the mandarin duck; then we organize and classify these data according to their symbolisms reflected in the idioms and figurative expressions which are subsequently analyzed semantically and culturally. This study demonstrates the productivity of the mandarin duck image, reflecting its particular cultural connotations in the Chinese language. In this way, this investigation provides reference materials which may facilitate learning, teaching and translation of Chinese, as well as intercultural communication. Besides, it also contributes to a better understanding of the interaction between language and culture in general, and between phraseology and culture in particular. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents a comparative study between two divorce decrees issued in Spain and Morocco with descriptive and translation purposes of approaching to the translational complexity of these type of texts. For this, on first place, a short textual-typological and functional comparison of these kind of normative constructs will be given. Then, the macrostructure of the selected decrees will be analyzed to identify and highlight the similarities and the differences between them. All this by applying the theoretical and methodological bases of contrastive textology [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to offer an analysis of the morphology of a very specific kind of idiomatic words: three loanwords from English that survive inserted in Spanish idioms. To do this, we will first define the concepts of "idiomatic word", "loanword" and "loanword from English", and then we clarify the methodological procedures to compile this kind of words in two dictionaries of Spanish -DLE and DEA. This will be helped by the special lexicographic treatment that due to its characteristics these words receive. We limit ourselves to the phraseological units that we know as idioms. We will carry out a morphological analysis of these words, focusing on the graphical, phonological, and morphological adaptations that these words have undergone in their acquisition process in Spanish -in this way, we will be able to observe the type of acclimatization in Spanish and the formal characteristics that they maintain as a signifier. Their idioms will be be also documented to check their use in Spanish. After our analysis, we can conclude that one of the main features of the loanwords from English in Spanish idioms is their maintenance in Spanish as non-adapted foreign words, as their graphical, phonetical, and morphological features demonstrate. [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 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]

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]

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]

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]

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]