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This paper deals with the use of non-sexist strategies in manifestos of the Spanish general election of July 2023. The analysis of the strategies as compared with the use of generic masculine aims to determine how they correlate with political ideology and to what extent they contribute to manifesting ideological polarization. We analyze the programs of three left-wing parties (Sumar, PSOE, ERC) and three right-wing parties (PP, Vox, Junts), two of which are from the Catalan area (ERC, Junts). We compare the results with previous analyses of parliamentary debate. The quantitative and qualitative analysis of the manifestos shows that the use of non-sexist language has consolidated as an emblem of left-wing ideology, which produces an increase in the frequency of use of non-sexist strategies and a decrease of generic masculine. Among the mechanisms of non-sexist language, doublings are losing ground and collectives, generics and epicenes are increasing, often used in a non-natural or even grammatically incorrect way. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

As a result of the intersection with biology, philosophy, and anthropology, psychology has generated a valuable theoretical corpus on the theory of affect and emotions in a context where the subject faces a permanent biosphere crisis. Scholars such as Melanie Klein (1998, 2001) and Lawrence Buell (2016) agree in distinguishing between depression and fear as immediate emotions in adversity. However, we note that in recent years so-called outlawed emotions (Jaggar, 1989), such as hatred, envy, shame, or guilt, have also played a decisive role in interpreting moments of crisis. Among these emotions, guilt is the one that has generated the most literature so far and the one that, according to traditional psychology, harms the subject the most (Freud 1923). Still subject to rigid gender stereotypes, guilt is characterized by its negative impact on the psyche and the ability to activate adaptive mechanisms concerning moral and social behaviour (Barret, 1995; Eisenberg, 1986). Given these characteristics and the fact that in modern subjectivity it no longer fits only within the limits of the individual self, this article will explore the new poetic figurations of guilt in the anthropogenic era. Thus, from the analysis of a selection of poems from Nosaltres, qui (2020) by Mireia Calafell, Lianes o les rates que imiten l'Esther Williams (2021), Núria Mirabet and Als llacs (2021), Silvie Rothkovic, I will study how ecohumanism manifests itself in the poetic imagination when faced with destruction, extinction, and irreversibility narratives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article we apply the conceptual framework of affect theory to an analysis of the poems in L'animal que parla by Josep-Anton Fernàndez. Therefore, we will focus on the description of the representation of the affects and on the consequences of these representations. We explore the profile of the poetic self by investigating the literary construction of its body through its passions and feelings. As we will see, the body of L'animal que parla is located outside the law that governs permeability, passions overflow its surface, and language dominates it: «it moves it like an automaton». Through his poetic voice, Fernàndez explores the anchorings and the attachments and how the body relates to them through viscosity, a quality that, for Sarah Ahmed, also implies a transfer of affection. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Catalan language, and Romance languages in general, show a preference for postnominal qualifier adjectives. This tendency seems to be less dominant in literary texts, although empirical studies using relatively large corpora, a million words or more, are rare. The objective of this work is to determine how often postnominal qualifier adjectives appear in the comparable corpus of covalt. This analysis was carried out taking into account the various combinations of the adjective and the noun in the nominal phrase, along with some possible modifiers of the syntagma (genitival contruction using 'de', defining and non-defining relative clauses with 'que'). The results show postnominal adjectives occur in over 50% of cases, compared to prenominal positions. Depending on contextual elements, this percentage presents some differences. The least significant differences appear in forms ending with an exclamation point when the noun-adjective structure is followed by defining or non-defining clauses, and especially in genitival contructions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper focuses on the study of some examples of creative modification of phraseological units (pu) in the novel Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie, and on the analysis of their translation into Catalan and Spanish. The creative modification of phraseological units is an evident stylistic feature of this novel, in which we can find examples of different types of creative modification (both internal and external). In the examples studied, we observe an effort made by translators to include equivalent phraseological units in their translations, as they attempted to reproduce some kind of creative modification whenever it was possible. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Electronic communication is a reflection of today's societ and, its tendencies and cultural values. In this sense, a premium is placed on informality, and phenomena are at work within the digital exchange of information that are changing longestablished parameters affecting privacy, expressions of emotion, etc. Meanwhile, there has been a pronounced shift toward forms of writing that are more similar to oral discourse. Electronic communication has contributed to fundamental changes in the distinctions between spoken and written language. There is currently a process of ever-greater informality and conversationality. Contempoarary discursive styles mix formal and informal styles and display a number of familiarity markers are detected. In this sense, electronic communication differs from other communicative forms due to the presence of certain expressions, abbreviations, emotional representations, nonstandard spellings and the reduction of information density, among other features. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Based on some of Vicent Salvador's reflections on phraseological units and idiomaticity, this paper analyzes some cinegrams in the COVALT corpus. This class of phraseological unit prototypically describes a nonverbal behavior while at the same time verbalizing the meaning conventionally associated with this behavior. The underlying assumption is that there are differences between cinegrams in German and in Catalan due to differences in idiomaticity. To test the assumption, an analysis will show how expressions of denial and affirmation have been translated from German into Catalan, and the results will be compared with a comparable corpus of texts originally written in Catalan. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article analyses how the discursive scenarios (formed by the interaction between discourses, situational scenarios and the interlocutors) contained in the History of the Peloponnesian War contribute to revealing the truth of the story and how, based on this truth, knowledge is produced, in accordace with the epistemological theory of Thucydides. More specifically, the discursive scenarios are studied based on two situational parameters: the dichotomy between the public and private scenario, and the question of equal status interlocutors versus unequal status interlocutors. These parameters define both the discursive genre (speech versus dialogue) and the amount of truth that the discourse provides. A political reading is also possible, because when one of these scenarios is an expression of a certain type of political regime, the extent to which it contributes truth and, therefore, knowledge, will determine if the political regime reflected by this scenario is a suitable way to govern a community. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

For the purposes of this article, a complete corpus of the phraseological units in the Llibre dels fets was compiled in order to study some of the idioms and proverbs in the text in the context in which they are used. The aim here was to analyze some of the text's formal aspects and the conceptual and stylistic connotations that emerge from them. At the same time, the diachronous evolution of these phraseological units has been observed and, in the case of the proverbs, illustrated with supporting documentation. Some recurrent metadiscursive expressions have also been considered and analyzed as significant markers of the text's authorship. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In act of the reading, certain signs spark emotions in the reader. This paper reviews some of the elements of identity that can fuel this emotional process in a reader's mind when is a degree of commonality or confluence of identity between the content of the narration and the life experiences of the reader. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The North-Catalan poet, playwright and novelist Jordi Pere Cerdà (the pseudonym of Antoni Cayrol, Saillagouse, 1920 - Perpignan, 2011) shows throughout his literary work a significant interest in depicting the physical and human geography of the French Cerdagne where he was born. The close attention paid to this territory is evidence of the author's interest, as a literary explorer, in recreating his own most intimate experiences. In his novella Callastres, published in his volume entitled Col·locació de personatges en un jardí tancat (1993), Cerdà draws a literary heterotopia in this village in the French Cerdagne, formed from the author's own identity and his imaginary and emotional coordinates. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Josep Pla and Joan Fuster are considered to be two of the most important writers in Catalan in the twentieth century and are especially celebrated for their contributions to the highly varied genre of non-fiction. Both authors made their living from writing, which prompted them to take on various types of paid writing assignments both in Spanish and Catalan. Among these undertakings are their contributions to the series of «Guías de España» guidebooks (Edicions Destino, 1941-1977), the most representative of those published during the period which overlaps with the Francoist dictatorship. These guides -three in the case of Pla; one by Fuster- can be examined from the perspective of a definition of collective and national identity. This article also analyses the strategies employed by both writers to identify themselves as authors in Catalan when their translations of these works into Catalan were subsequently incorporated into their Complete Works. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A publisher's website can be understood as a virtual public epitext made up of a set of documents and resources that are addressed to both readers and purchasers of the books presented. The objective of this research is to design a methodological model to analyse how publishers construct these virtual "shop windows" and how they communicate the content of thse pages. We began the construction of this model by conducting a literature review, pointing to a lack of research on these specific websites. Consequently, the first results were adapted to the object of analysis. The research presented in this paper advances on the work of a previous study (Escandell i Lluch, 2016) by using the tool created on six Publisher websites and by expanding the literature review. The final results are twofold. Firstly, we have created and applied a methodological tool that has allowed us to detect, classify and analyse data according to the a series of parameters: presentation, general content, social media, usability, intended user and textual content. Meanwhile, using the tool has provided an initial conclusion about how the six publishers studied present themselves on the Internet. Although a website allows a publisher to make itself visible, to develop a reputation for itself and its products, and above all to create a community with book purchasers, five of the publishers analysed communicate in an essentially analogic fashion, as they do not integrate their users into their communication. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Each language has the capacity to organise a certain conceptualisation of the lexical field dealing with colours according to the geographical, historical and cultural circumstances of its corresponding linguistic community. Thus, the aim of this paper is to identify the distinctive features that Catalan and Spanish use to connote colours symbolically in their respective folk traditions. To this end, this study has carried out a contrastive analysis of set phrases and idioms has been carried out based on an epistemological perspective often used in cognitive linguistics and ethnopoetics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Irony is among the discursive techniques employed by the essayist and columnist Joan Fuster i Ortells (1922-1992). This register, which the writer used in diferent ways, is also present in his journalistic production. This journalistic body of work has a significnat place within "the journalism of ideas" in Catalan and Spanish of the second half of the 20th century. Fuster's uses of this resource and its the different ways and degrees to which he employed it were conditioned by aspects such as the intended audience, the newspaper where a given article or column was to be published; the issue or issues being addressed, the historical and thematic context of the text and, of course, events in the author's life. This paper analyzes Fuster's use of ironic expression in 253 Notes d'un desficiós newspaper columns, which were published in the Qué y Dónde event listings guide of the city of València between 1979 and 1984. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article is a review of the identity constructions that are observed in the discourses in the Spanish and Catalan press connected with the issue of the Catalan sovereignty process. We analyse a corpus of news and opinion articles focusing on six key episodes in the extensive chronological history of El Procés. This work is based on concepts such as linguistic ideology and the dialectic and symbolic constructions of identity narratives, all analyzed from the persepctives of critical discourse analysis and sociolingüístics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In general terms, among the materials published in podiatry journals, articles reporting research and literature reviews represent the most academic genres. Other sections, especially lead editorials, when they are published, tend to appeal more to group cohesion and reinforce a sense of identity in a more visible way. Editorials act as the voice of a journal's publishers, and often of the whole professional group. As the opening text of a journal issue, editorials are often presented as letters from the editor, or they use the sort of attention-grabbing headlines that are often present in journalistic rhetoric, often highly effective in the use or metaphor, as this paper will show. This article focuses on the function of the institutional voice as it acts to guide the professional direction of the field of podiatry in general. This influence is possible thanks to the editorials in the specialized journals, where different types of discourse coexist. We will observe different approaches taken by editorials with a wide range of functions and purposes, but which, overall, work to set the course of the profession as a whole. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The rise of digital written media has allowed for the emergence of a new genre of opinion writing that is often known as Readers' Comments. The genre was born as a variation on the tradition of letters to the editor, but it does not share most of the older genre's stylistic or pragmatic traits. The aim of this paper is to analyse examples of this genre that appeared in two Catalan media (Ara and El Periódico) as a result of the verdict of Provincial Court of Navarra in the case popularly known as La Manada (April 26, 2018). Our objective is to see how verbal politeness manifests itself in readers' comments, not so much in the response to the verdict, but in the ratings given to the comments of others readers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Irony is a discursive phenomenon that comes in many forms and cannot be defined merely by the use any single specific trope such as antiphrasis. This paper examines how J. F. Mira makes versatile use of irony in his journalistic essays in order to make the reader more complicit, all in the service of conveying persuasive arguments. More specifically, we identify the varied signposts that Mira uses to point to the emergence of irony in his texts, whether by means of variations in tone that last throughout a particular text or with language confined to smaller portions of his writing. Thus, we observe that the contrast between different discursive components is a key part of the writer's strategy of argumentative ambiguity, a strategy that is implemented via irony in this series of essays, marked by fluctuations in register between the prose of ideas, a conversational tone and an aesthetic character of literary discourse. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This work consists of some personal reflections on the poetic works of Vicent Salvador. This text is founded upon the idea that, as an enunciating event, Vicent Salvador's poiesis establishes dialogue as its organizing principle. In fact, the poet's first person I acts to shape the presence of an other, opening up the poetic discourse to a range of voices as it draws in the audience/reader, inviting him or her to engage in an inter-subjective relation with the work. The reflections in this paper use a functioncognitive approach to analyse the interplay of some of the procedures at work in the grammatical discourse of Salvador's texts, examining these strategies as though following a trail of linguistic footprints left behind by the ritual of communication. Among these grammatical phenomena are the use of conditional clauses and interrogative and imperative forms to shape different melodies and modalities, each with its own subjective character. This subjective nature is heightened when the poems are read lyrically. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The poetic works of Josep Palau i Fabre have much common ground with the writings of Carl Gustav Jung. This paper explores the two authors' notions of concept of individuation, and their approaches to shadow, the metaphorical use of alchemy, the collective unconscious, and the ideas of anima and animus and of authentic knowledge. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Starting with a review of Rilke's literary influence on the early poetic writings of JoanVinyoli, this paper goes on to delve more deeply into how the Czech poet shared with Vinyoli his interest in Cézanne's paintings and in the French artist's doctrine of artístic composition. The interdisciplinary relationship between painting and poetry can be deeply appreciated in the hypertextuality between two early poems by Vinyoli, one from each of his first two books, both poems based on paintings by the French artist and both featuring greatly transformed or transposed words. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article is an approach to Olors ('smells') (2000), a theater work by Josep M. Benet i Jornet, with the objective of analyzing the text from the scope of the function of fictional space in his writing and in his theatrical discourse: an analysis of the construction of the spatiality, taking into account the different levels of space action (macrospace, microspace, stage's space and latent space) and how these aspects are present in the text. It also examines the relationship between fiction and reality with respect to the image of Barcelona presented in the work, and the author's reflections on the close links between the urban identity of the inhabitants of a neighborhood undergoing transformation / destruction, based on individual, family and social memory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Barcelona is one of the epicentres of the detective stories. Since Rafael Tasis, he defended the need for a multitude of story tellers who tell the greatness and misery of the city, there have been many authors who have been seduced by this geography from Manuel Pedrolo, Tomás Salvador, through Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, Jaume Fuster, Andreu Martin to get the most current as Toni Hill or Carlos Zanón. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A library has been an area that has fascinated humans due to the different levels of interpretation that this space creates. This paper reviews those journalistic essays in which the writer Joan Francesc Mira refers to that kind of sourroundings in order to show the diversity of representations that this space for book passion conforms and, simultaneously, to test the usefulness of newspaper columns as textual genre that allows the global reconstruction of a thematic personal discourse despite the fragmentation that is inherent in this genre. These texts illustrate how a real space, simply perceived, becomes a space represented through cultural adhesions incorporated by literature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Jordi Pere Cerdà (Antoni Cayrol) is one of the most important poets of North Catalonia, France. Cerdà was born in a little French village near the Spanish border, in a place where he learnt Catalan at home, but was a French citizen. The effects of the border and the historical changes that took place before the Spanish Civil War and the Second World War were decisive for his poetic career. His first edited poems show this internal struggle between a conception of the native Cerdanya as a geographical unit (shared out in two states) and the assumption that this county is broken by a border that denies a traditional way of living and thus denying, physically, the acceptance of a linguistic Catalan identity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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