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As part of a larger study, whose main objective is to postulate the existence of intonation differences between linguistic regions of Chile in the issuance of subordinate clauses substantive objective, this work exposes a characterization of three types of pauses (silence, elongations and vacillations) found inside the sentence structures listed above, issued by professional speakers from Iquique and Punta Arenas. The main purpose of the study was to determine the existence of differences in the types of pauses observed in relation to the sentence complexity analyzed, the gender of the informants and their geographical origin. For this, a total of 100 statements taken from interviews of 37 professionals (men and women) born in both cities were analyzed. The results indicated that there were differences in the observed pauses, in relation to the types of sentences analyzed, the geographic origin and gender of the informants. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The aim of this article is to reflect on linguistic sexism, a kind of discrimination that has women as an object and language as an instrument. Sexist language either ignores women, or treats them as men, or represents them as an exception; such a use of language, which excludes or minimizes some social subjects, linguistically represents their self-denial and contributes to the permanence of common prejudices. The article analyzes two aspects of linguistic sexism: some asymmetries between masculine gender and feminine gender in the Spanish language; as well as some discriminatory linguistic expressions found in academic documents in the Autonomous University of the State of Mexico that hide or diminish the professional or student image of woman. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The present work has two goals to accomplish; first of all, to apply the theoretical tools provided by the Functional Grammar perspective for the analysis of texts; and secondly, to attain an approximation to notions of genre and register. Thus, we will begin by exploring and analysing the theoretical and conceptual model proposed by such an approach in order to discover its possible applications to the Spanish system. To make a start, we will make some methodological considerations related to the study and development of the concepts and key ideas established by that perspective. Then we will try a comparative analysis of two excerpts where the similarities and differences detected by applying its triple outlook --experiential meanings that encode our experiences of the world; interpersonal meanings that allow us to interact with others; and textual meanings that organize previous elements to construct coherent and relevant messages-- are discussed. The corpus consists of two pieces of writing that have been selected because they share the same topic: the role of grammar. One of them has been extracted from a manual on prosody, orthography and grammar of the Spanish Language; the other is an excerpt taken from an interview with the Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez, conducted during a debate triggered by his speech at the First International Congress of the Spanish Language that took place in México in 1997. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on sexism and its semantic representation in the Spanish language. It briefly discusses sexism as a form of discrimination and source of social-political conflict, and explores how gender is expressed in Hispanic culture and language. The author discusses the conflict between cultural and linguistic treatments of this topic, considers several examples of coined words which are linguistically problematic, and lists a series of rules for correctly expressing gender in Spanish.