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In this article we will try to show five humorous signs used in Spanish linguistic jokes and that could be used in Spanish teaching. These signs are polysemy, homophony, paronymy, phraseology and diminutives. The election of jokes as a structure to use in teaching is based not only in the fact that it is the main humorous structure, but also in its easy to learn structure. As Attardo (2008) said, joke is the easiest humorous text type. Also, "joke is a humorous unit with no context and selfcontained, which has all the required information to be understood and enjoyed" (Martin, 2008: 37). The goal of this paper is to show how previously mentioned signs work in an internet extracted corpus, so we can get generalizations that can be used in Spanish teaching. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This research aims to examine the nature of the orthographic reform proposals in the late nineteenth century in Spain, when Bourbon Restoration is established. From this moment, there is a resurgence of Spanish neography that, supported by the impulse from the different international reform movements, finds new reasons to expose its proposals and reform requests in some spaces of public opinion, specially in the press, which stands as the key piece for the orthographic discussion. This work will serve, from a general point of view, to evaluate the role of the written press in the resurgence of neographic actions in Spain; from a specific perspective, it aims to bring to light the reformist proposals from the historical press and to carry out its study taking into account the conjunction of the internal and external perspectives of linguistic historiography. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to relate two debates about how logic and language influence thought. There is an axis of discussion about whether there exists a plurality of logic or a single logical system as an evaluation criterion for any reasoning context. In linguistics, the debate arising from the strong and weak interpretations of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis has centralized the discussion around the degree of influence or determination of language on thought. From different perspectives and theoreticalconceptual frameworks, logic, and linguistics delimit and problematize a field of inquiry and reflection. The article, from a transdisciplinary perspective, intends to account for and postulate communicating vessels between these debates, considering the nuances of each approach. It also seeks to propose its own hypothesis on the problem raised. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this work we make an account of the way in which the concept of transitivity has been understood by traditional grammar and how it is treated by current linguistics, from the notion of transitivity developed by Priscian, a 6th century Grammarian. Our goal is to clearly identify the two conceptions from which the Grammarian understood this syntactic phenomenon: a narrow one (simpler and reduced) and a broad one (with a higher degree of linguistic reflection); and the way in which both have influenced grammatical theory during the history of grammar. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The fundamental purpose of this research article is to present some of the philological and critical study components that served as basis for the critical edition production of the Colombian writer Pedro Gómez Valderrama narrative work (1923-1992). Specifically, of his complete short stories (six anthologies) and the novel La otra raya del tigre (1977), a study that is part of the disciplinary fields of textual criticism and narratology as a theoretical and methodological procedure for the construction and analysis of the academic edition of the complete narrative of the mentioned writer, non-existent until now. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The 1990s saw the emergence in Germany of the so-called "iconic turn" (ikonische Wende). Keith Moxey (2009) interprets this turn as a new paradigm that, fed up with the linguistic turn and the thesis of mediated access to reality, proposes the image as an instance of immediate access to the world, eliminating the distinction between subject and object. However, Boehm argues that the iconic turn must be understood on the basis of the turn of all turns, the Kantian transcendental turn. The hypothesis I will defend here is that the iconic turn is to be understood as a post-Kantian thought. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A modeling process is initially outlined based on two considerations (Sec. 2), namely that models themselves are autonomous and that their direct goals are at least threefold: to be well constructed, to fit the empirical world, and to be able to perform subrogative tasks. This section outlines the fundamental elements of the modeling task in evidence-based linguistics, as well as those of a formal framework chosen to represent the former. The third section is devoted to applying the present theoretical analysis to the case of complex networks (CN), so that key concepts such as validity, reliability and replicability of modeling, as well as the concept of experimental design in complex networks, can be viewed from a representational perspective. The fourth section reflects the application capabilities of CN, especially in the case of language learning in atypical and often socially marginalized cases. Finally, the conclusion summarizes the implementation of the CN-tool. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The use of the language on the Internet and on blogs has raised interest for decades, both for the linguistic peculiarities it presents and its ability to influence the communication habits of the speakers. On this occasion, we focus on the presence of viewpoint adverbials in a corpus of Spanish blog posts on different topics, with their respective comments. The interest in studying these modal units lies in their high polyfunctionality and their heavy dependence on contextual and superstructural factors. This corpus has been subjected to a quantitative-qualitative analysis, carried out from the perspective of pragmatic linguistics, so that we have been able to determine the scarce presence of opinion modalizers in the posts, in contrast to the more pronounced use in comments made by readers. From an argumentative point of view, these units function mainly as mitigation devices, in order to preserve the image of bloggers and the membership of the virtual community by commentators. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article the rhetorical resources that compose the argumentative fallacies by the four candidates to the colombian presidency in 2022 on the Tiktok platform were analyzed. This was performed by carrying out a content analysis, which consisted in creating a data matrix to identify and categorize argumentative fallacies and their support on linguistic resources and literary figures, on 200 videos on Tiktok. In the same manner, the analysis gave an account of the main topics used in order to shape their narrative. The results indicate a tendency in the use of fallacies that appeal to emotions and to attack opponents; and to resources that are used on the semantic and phonological planes. Regarding the topics, these showed similarities among them, as they respond to problematics and worries common in the colombian population. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

From the confluence of Aesthetics and Hermeneutics, this article aims to propose theoretical tools to understand how sense is aesthetically configured, that is, made up of sensitive representations, by figurations. In particular, it focuses on those figures that emerge from words, but which, however, do not constitute linguistic language. As an exemplary case, the study of some images from the text Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Nietzsche is aimed at revealing how meaning is found in and expressed by the figure; link that, by constituting an "other language", demands its own modalities of understanding, namely, hearing with the eyes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Companies nowadays are considering mental health as an increasingly important issue for their employees, since it has been shown that this has an impact on their productivity and, therefore, on the economic performance that is generated in the workplace. The information related to occupational health is reflected in the non-financial information statement (NFIS), a document presented by listed companies together with their annual financial statements. Therefore, the aim of this study is two-fold, based on the analysis of these documents of the companies of the IBEX-35, the reference stock market index in Spain. On the one hand, the type of information provided by the NFISs of IBEX-35 companies on mental health will be analysed and, on the other hand, how the inclusion of information on mental health matters at a terminological level financial translators who work with this type of text. With this a preliminary view of the information on mental health that appears in these reports will be provided and a reflection on what it currently means for the work of financial translators. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Mental health is a fundamental right. However, the mechanisms to achieve its fulfillment when there are linguistic and/or cultural barriers are not as well developed as they must. Interpreting in mental health settings is a new topic with not much researched background. This study follows a qualitative methodology. So, the main objective of this article is to make a comparison between existing guidelines and protocols on working with interpreters in mental health settings and go deep through the knowledge of this specialization. This would be considered as a starting point for future researches, and, at the same time, this would help mental health specialists to work with interpreters in cross-cultural therapies. We started from the point that health care is a fundamental right. Then, we examine institutions and existing legislative roles giving special emphasis on foreign populations that do not share the same language and/or culture. After this contextualization, we focused on putting in common different points that the different analyzed protocols share. Finally, we made some conclusions from the comparison of these protocols. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The objective of this study is to offer an overview of the orthography that appears in the columns on language in the Spanish national press from the end of the 19th century until the present day. For this, the articles that deal with spelling by Miguel de Unamuno, Mariano de Cavia, Fernando Araujo, Eustaquio Echauri, Ramón Carnicer, Emilio Lorenzo, Francisco Ríos y Luis Cortés have been analysed. The extensive chronology will allow us to determine what are the concerns about this aspect of the language and if they have varied over time. From an ideological perspective, it is intended to find out the position that the authors of these articles have taken regarding the norm, as well as the works that they have used as authority in their writings to establish normative judgments. The study will shed light on possible changes in the attitude towards spelling and the norm over time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article explores the equivalence between linguistic evolution and biological evolution in the metaphorical epistemological perspective of linguistic (neo)Darwinism. It analyses the survival of these evolutionary ideas in the columns on language (CSL) when explaining changes in Spanish. Six CSLs, spanning the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries, are selected to represent the genre’s beginnings in the Spanish press to the present day. These selections coincide with the consolidation of models that offer new perspectives on linguistic change. The influence of (neo)Darwinism in each columnist’s discourse is examined, along with the infrequent use of associated biologicist metaphors, except in cases where the genetic-biological is transferred to the genesis of the language. Ultimately, the article concludes that the evolutionist ideology underlies some CSLs due to the principle of naturalism in linguistics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article studies the syntactic issues that have been the object of interest for writers of linguistic columns in the last decades of the 19th century and throught the 20th. I have examined about 750 columns written in this period by authors who are included in the METAPRES corpus and by some others prominent writers from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The study allows us to confirm that syntactic issues have not interested linguistic columns writers as much as those related to lexis and dictionary. It also made it possible to highlight the syntactic questions that have received the most attention in this type of text. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Columns on language are characterised by the fact that they are discourses in which a problem related to language is discussed. They are argumentative texts in which subjectivity and scientific explanation are combined to influence groups of readers with whom they share broad areas of agreement. The aim of this paper is to analyse the topics on which the discourse on language in linguistic columnism is based from its origins to the present day. Based on Perelman and Olbrechts-Tyteca (2015) typology of the places of argumentation quantity, quality, order, and essence a corpus of columns on language is analysed in order to find the argumentative correlates of these topics in the discourse on language. Their continuity over time and their relevance as characterizing elements of the metalinguistic discursive tradition they form will be shown. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents the results of a pragmalinguistic analysis of the manifestations of polyphony through reported speech, and oralization within a corpus of Columns about Language published in the Spanish press between 1960 and 2020. Based on the polyphonic theory and oralization in the media, as well as in previous studies on linguistic ideologies in the press, this mixed analysis aims at finding the most frequent reported speech and oralizing mechanisms present in the corpus, and identifying their discursive functions within these texts. The results show that, with few differences and throughout the period considered, the columns favor direct speech and interrogative statements. These strategies allow, in most cases, to reproduce other people’s discourses that are critically evaluated, and to establish a relationship of complicity with the readers of the column. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Verbal humor can be part of the discursive strategies of texts that are not classified as humorous, whose function is not simply to make people laugh. This would be the case of the columns on language, considered as expository and argumentative texts, add opinion and metalinguistics. The objective of this work is to discover and analyze the presence of verbal humor in columns on languge diachronically from its beginnings in the mid-nineteenth century to the present day. For this, a corpus has been created with 11 columnists and a total of 530 columns, in which the purpose of using verbal humor in them has been studied, as well as the linguistic procedures that have made it possible (humorous markings and indicators). The result obtained is the consideration of verbal humor as a constituent element of the columns on language in its discursive tradition. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to analyse the discursive construction of Standard Spanish in a corpus of language columns written in Spain during the 19th and the 20th centuries. Drawing on the framework of glottopolitics, we examine the socalled «Standard Language ideology» (Milroy/ Milroy [1985] 1991, 1), according to which one specific variety is intrinsically superior to the rest, one that is «correct» and should thus be prioritised as a model for language performance and «good» usage, in this case, in the Hispanic world. The relevance of metalinguistic discourse in the analysis of language columnism lies not only in the existing debates concerning the prestigious and stigmatised linguistic uses, but also in its contribution to the construction of an ideological scenario regarding what a language must be. In this respect, the texts of the selected columnists contribute to the construction of Spanish as the only national, common and standard language on both sides of the Atlantic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Se presenta una introducción a la revista que discute el estudio de los cambios lingüísticos en el español moderno con especial atención al columnismo lingüístico español, la evolución de la lengua y el discurso lingüístico en España.

The linguistic temporality, specially the verbal one, is one of the most controversial issues in Spanish language. This article, derived from a research conducted by Universidad Cooperativa de Colombia and Universidad Industrial de Santander, aims to characterize the expression of anteriority at the moment of speech in the Colombian variety of Spanish. Based on an onomasiologic approach, beginning from an oral language corpus, the fragments where the expression of anteriority emerged at the moment of speech were pointed out. Then, the emptying in the matrix which classifies the typology of anteriority manifested in each one was made. Finally, the means employed to do that were determined. We came to the conclusion that, in the Colombian variety of Spanish, the verbal forms only express the anteriority in relation to the moment of speech, also that the most used verbal forms are preterit, copreterit and present perfect. Aditionally, the space between the moment of the speech and the event is recognized due to other elements, and the discursive situation is the mean that allows to determine largely that interval. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The COVID-19 pandemic obliged Argentina to adopt distance learning to continue university classes during 2020. In this article, a study is presented on the perceptions and perspectives of the faculty in the School of Education Sciences of the Universidad Nacional de Entre Ríos regarding this emergency educational virtualization. The methodology regards a case study. For the collection of information, a virtual survey was used that led to a qualitative and quantitative analysis of the responses. A statistical analysis of language patterns was implemented through the program Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count in order to examine affective, cognitive, and social processes linked to the use of technologies during the pandemic. The results indicate that, whereas the faculty had available technologies, abilities to use them, and an appropriate institutional environment, in that moment emerging difficulties manifested related to the conditions of livability and the possibilities of spatial-temporal organization for carrying out telework. It is concluded that extracognitive factors, such as domestic conditions and perceptions of virtuality in teaching, are two unavoidable aspects for moving towards modalities with a higher degree of mediatization during the post-pandemic period. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introduction: The student's cognitiveaffective relationship with the learning of a second language often plays a determining role in the learning process. Objective: To identify elements involved in the cognitiveaffective relationship for learning a second language in three second language students, aged between 19 and 22, who were learning in a face-to-face or autonomous manner. Materials and methods: The methodological approach is ethnographic, structured through three categories: cognitive-affective relationship, second language learning, and mode of study. Information was collected through semi-structured interviews. Results: It was found that language practice can facilitate approaching and learning it, considering the individual, the environment, and the tools used for this purpose. Additionally, employment opportunities were identified as a motivating factor for learning, as well as interactions with others, generating certain meanings of the aspects. Conclusions: Language learning is a multifaceted process influenced by various factors. Active language practice, personal motivation (such as employment opportunities), interaction with native speakers or other students, and the tools used all play a fundamental role in acquiring a new language. Furthermore, it is emphasized that language comprehension can vary significantly from one person to another, depending on their approach, context, and learning resources. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Since its origins, the notion of Diglossia has been applied, among others, to the Arabic language. Marçais (1930) and Ferguson (1959) are the foundational works on this topic. In order to classify Arabic varieties, they proposed a dichotomous framework based on functions and prestige in which Classical Arabic and the vernacular varieties represent two opposite poles. From an ideological perspective, Arabic vernaculars held a subordinated position to Classical Arabic, considered the ideal language. However, during the last 50 years, research has shown the inappropriateness of the concept, claiming a rupture of that paradigm and proposing different solutions more adjusted to the Arab-speaking reality. This paper has a twofold purpose. On the one hand, I review the literature on the concept of diglossia and on other linguistic ideologies that can be applied to the Arabic language. On the other hand, and based on the linguistic situation in Morocco, I show how the competition between prestigious – different from Classical Arabic – and stigmatized varieties favor variation and linguistic change. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Spanish exhibits a morphological system of evidentiality by means of its morphological future and conditional tense. The latest studies point out that the western part of the Iberian Peninsula is the epicentre of this phenomenon, which has increased exponentially in the last century to the detriment of temporal and modal values. In this article, I aim to demonstrate the narrow correlation between the birth of evidentiality and ergative patterns that, not only justify the geographical origin for Spanish, but they also explain the evolution of evidentiality elsewhere in the Romance spectrum and in other linguistic families. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, we argue for the suitability of integrating semantic and pragmatic factors in the description of the compound and the simple past of Romance languages, to account for their intra- and interlinguistic functional diversity. Building on the semantic underdeterminacy thesis (Sperber and Wilson, 1995) and on the idea that tenses have procedural meaning (Moeschler, 1994, 1998; Nicolle, 1997, 1998; Saussure, 2003), we develop a description of the compound and the simple past in Romance, based on a limited set of combinations of semantic features. Some of these features are invariant and common to all Romance languages, while others present binary parametric options, whose value varies from one language to another and even, within the same language, from one geolectal variety to another. Our proposal is compatible with the idea of a rigid but underspecified procedural semantics, susceptible to contextual enrichment. The set of features and parametric options we propose account for the interpretations available in each variety. Additionally, semantic features systematically receive contextual enrichment, and this enrichment develops the underspecified semantics of the verb tense in different directions. Competition between semantically close linguistic expressions is also an important factor in the distribution of interpretative routes accessible to each tense. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Linguistic variation is a phenomenon present in almost all languages. Its importance for translation studies is unquestionable. In this paper, we intend to investigate how the problems posed by linguistic variation are solved for Chinese-Spanish literary translation. To this end, we have chosen the work Teahouse and its two Spanish versions as the corpus of analysis. Based on the hypothesis that in the translation of the elements of linguistic variation in this work, standardization is used as the preferred translation solution, we analyzed the corpus to obtain both qualitative and quantitative data. The results allow us to confirm the general hypothesis, as well as to identify the specific characteristics and problems presented by the translation of linguistic variation from Chinese into Spanish. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper provides empirical evidence to the premise that the theoretical and methodological approach of Linguistics to the study of genres of the professional field has not had the same emphasis as the academics ones (Cassany & López, 2011; Montolío & López, 2010; Author, 2006, Lillis, 2021). In this sense, the objective of this research was to describe the study of professional genres between 2008 and 2017 in the 10 leading journals of Linguistics in Latin America. For this, a mixed approach was used in a corpus of 1,729 publications. The results indicate that only 1.85% of the researchs analizes professional genres, mainly about Articles of Scientific Research (36.3%), Judicial Sentences (27.2%) and News (18.1%), which evidences a pending challenge in Linguistics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article approaches the beginnings of Philological and Linguistic Studies in the city of Rosario and its institutionalization from the perspective of linguistic historiography. Through the exhumation and analysis of documents scattered in various media and repositories, we reconstruct a decisive period for this subfield's configuration in one of the main national universities in Argentina. The Institute of Philology from the Universidad Nacional del Litoral was founded in 1952 and the subject Linguistics began to be taught in the Letters' degree. The first direction of the Institute did not advance in the objectives initially declared for the center, that aimed to study the local varieties of Spanish. These initial goals were not pursued, but the Institute did lay the foundations for the further development of that area and sustained the training of human resources for more than a decade. 1966-1967 a series of factors converged to give rise to a greater specialization and diversification of the subfield, starting with the establishment of spaces dedicated to dialectology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

From a critical-discursive perspective and using the narrative as a unit of analysis, in this article I show some linguistic strategies with which a socially discriminated group, such as Mexican single mothers, negotiates its identity, protects its face and resists dominant discourses. The strategies we focus on are the pronominalization of yo; the use of tú without a pronoun in a collective sense; and the use of the marked gender of the pronouns nosotras and una. Through different narrative extracts, elicited in semi-directed interviews with six single mothers, I illustrate the functions that these linguistic elements fulfill. The results show that pronominalization has an agentive function that is part of a face-work (Brown and Levinson 1987); the second person singular without a pronoun is a face-protecting strategy, while the use of marked gender has a differentiating function. This analysis shows that it is essential to consider the complete communicative situation in which the narratives arise in order to assign meaning to the use of such linguistic strategies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

These past decades have seen an emergence of studies on speech acts. Condolences, however, are among the least addressed out of them. Bibliography on this subject is scarce if compared to that of petitions, promises, offers, and so on, more so in Spanish, where papers on this subject are few and far between. This gap is especially notable in diachronic studies. This paper aims to offer a first approach to strategies for delivering condolences in 18th and 19th century letters written in the Canary Islands, Spain. Its goal is to describe which are the most common semantic formulas used to give condolences, and how much they resemble those described by different authors regarding this speech act in modern languages. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper addresses the linguistics column that Juan B. Selva published in the pedagogical journal La Obra between 1923 and 1927, with the aim of examining both the criteria of authority regarding linguistic knowledge, as well as the ideological assessments and attitudes expressed by the author in relation to the linguistic phenomena he describes. The analysis of the column (which was published in a context in which Argentina was witnessing the institutionalization of linguistics and the expansion of debates on language in the press) allows us to corroborate the centrality of normative issues, a characteristic feature of the genre. However, it also reveals the emergence of a discourse that rejects prescriptive positions and, instead, seeks scientific explanations for the linguistic phenomena it records. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper I will reflect on some examples of my activity as a translator guided by the following questions: since translations often broaden the boundaries of language, can we consider the contribution of translated texts to systematic language research? And further, is the meta-translational and metalinguistic reflection of translators important for the study of language? To answer these questions, I will consider the nature of translation and writing as twin operations, and after mentioning synthetically and essentially the theory that guides my translating decisions, I will dwell on some examples concerning the “creative” use of verbal tenses in my Spanish translations of Umberto Eco’s The Island of the Day Before (1995) and The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana (2005). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyses a corpus extracted from the posts by Santiago Abascal, Vox secretary, published on Instagram for a year. From the methodological point of view, we worked cross-sectionally, using pragmatic linguistics, argumentation theory, and its grammar, as well as studies on political discourse and critical discourse analysis instruments. After a brief introduction on the characteristics of populist discourse, we demonstrate how the locutor uses a wide range of persuasive strategies that forge a discourse in which self-exaltation of the charismatic leader and the denunciation of the source of evil stand out, in addition to the resort to fallacies and an emotional language (evaluative vocabulary, metaphors, etc.) that acquires highly impolite tones or the so-called "Debasing Political Rhetoric". [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this study we want to illustrate how the teaching of the Latin language became the symbol of the imperial expansionist energy of Spain in the 16th and 17th centuries, and in its evangelizing propagation to the newly discovered territories of America. Spanish was not so much the "companion of the empire", but rather Latin, with Castilian as a partner language. Latin was taught, fundamentally, through the grammatical work of Elio Antonio de Nebrija, so we intend to make a historiographical and linguistic overview of the editions of the Introductiones Latinae from its origins according to medieval and late-medieval grammar models until the last recasting, which will be made official as the Royal Art, by royal decree of Felipe II in 1598. Its educational and ideological influence will configure the grammars of the Amerindian languages of all the Viceroyalties. We will pay particular attention to those of New Spain, which, due to its linguistic diversity and wealth of resources, became the most important viceroyalty of the Spanish crown. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article analyses the contribution of two women teachers to grammatical theory in Latin America through the treatises they wrote. Specifically, it deals with the conception and division of grammar, as well as the definition and classification of the different classes of words distinguished in the 19th century by Isabel Guzmán de Bressler in Peru and Hersilia Larenas de Herrera in Chile. We conclude that it is necessary to study the contribution of women to linguistics since, in the two cases studied here, opposed from the theoretical point of view, we can observe an attachment to the previous theory (both the traditional and the innovative rationalist) but also signs of originality and personal vision in grammar and pedagogy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, we aim to contribute to the characterization of multimodality of digital texts, more specifically to the understanding of the functioning of the modes of representation in the construction of the reader's positioning in an interactive digital narrative. We present a multimodal discourse analysis of the meanings constructed in a storyapp, which goal is the promotion of intercultural dialogue among children. The analysis is supported by categories from Systemic-Functional Linguistics, Social Semiotics, and visual narrative analysis; it focuses on the description of interpersonal meanings represented in verbal, visual, and aural and the intermodal meaning relations established. The results reveal that the representation of interpersonal meanings in this interactive digital text, of which the promotion of positive feelings of acceptance towards the represented culture stands out, constitutes a multimodal complex. The results allow the discussion of this storyapp as an instantiation of central assumptions of the Theory of Multiliteracies and highlight the need for a new pedagogy aligned to the inherent characteristics of the interaction between language and technology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article proposes a critical dialogue between New Cultural History and the Glottopolitical perspective to examine the orthographic reforms of Sebastián Díaz (1741-1813), conceiving them as normative interventions. Through a language ideologies approach to the prologue of Díaz's encyclopedia, the analysis reveals that his orthographic reforms, which agree and conflict with the academic discourse of its time, are prescriptive practices that aimed to control the production and reception of conversation. This etiquette practice was an effect of encyclopedic instruction in early childhood, facilitated by a simplified orthography. We conclude that studying the encyclopedia was not just a means of Catholic and rational, but also linguistic disciplining. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article analyzes poem LII of Trilce (1922) emphasizing the importance of the children's language used by Vallejo in this as in other texts based on one of the fundamental poles of attraction of his poetry: the return to his native land, Santiago de Chuco, trope of the primordial community and prelude to the unity lost during adulthood and the author's migratory experience. Vallejo achieves, through the use of the local Castilian of his childhood, a theatricalization of the referent that gives his poetry a unique aspect in the Latin American letters of the moment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Communicative health plays an important role in the well-being of a person with or without a disability. The aim of the article is to describe the communicative interaction that occurs between a group of caregivers and the people which they take care to identify their perceptions focus on their communicative health. This is descriptive research. 12 informal caregivers participated and they completed a survey based on the communication strategies used in interactions with the people who they take care. The results show that the interaction between the caregiver and the person who they take care. This is characterized by the presence of different communicative intentions, the use of verbal and non-verbal code, the passive role of the person with disabilities, and the active role of the caregiver. In the discussion the authors introduce the criteria to take into account when someone is talking about communicative health in people with disabilities. The study shows the signs that account for communicative health evidenced in the caregiver-person dyad who is cared for. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the impact of using multimedia resources on the English vocabulary learning as a foreign language in a sample of university students. Following a quantitative approach, a quasi-experimental, longitudinal-prospective study was conducted with 62 university students (42.6% women with mean age of 20.9 and 57.4% man with mean age of 20.6); previously divided into three different groups. For pre and post-training measurements, two instruments were used in their forms A and B, validated in previous studies. As a secondary goal, the influence of the cognates present in both tests on the score and the way of asking them was verified, in consequence an instrument of own design was applied. During the training, the use of lessons from a virtual platform made it possible to present multimedia resources and evaluate autonomous learning in formative manner. In the post-test, only one type of test was applied to each group, detecting significant improvement in three out of the four original instruments. However, the results should be treated with reservations due to the limitation represented by sample size and conduct of the study, in distance mode. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In recent years, the topics of insecurity, juvenile delinquency and criminal responsibility of minors appeared in numerous times at the written press in Argentina through diverse genres such as the newspaper article, the report, the opinion article or the editorial. In this paper, which takes part in a wider research carried out under the direction of Mg. Claudia Gaiotti in the framework of the Diplomatura en Ciencias del Lenguaje (I.S.P. "Dr. Joaquín V. González"), we propose a discursive approach of an opinion article about the Juvenile Justice Reform Project in Argentina, recently published in a national print media, from the francophone Discourse Analysis perspective. To accomplish this, we focus on the discursive analysis of the concessive argumentative connectives. We propose as a hypothesis that the concession introduced by argumentative connectives constitutes a discursive marker through which it is possible to recognize the locutor identities and the alterity voices. In other words, in the analysed article, the argumentative connectives related to the concession could be interpreted as a polyphonic-dialogical marker. As a continuation of this discursive analysis, we elaborate a pedagogical material oriented towards the teaching of the argumentation as a way of discourse organization at the secondary school subject Language and Literature. In this way, this article presents a dual objective: to characterize the discursive functioning of the concessive argumentative connectives and to elaborate a pedagogical projection of such issue dedicated to the secondary level. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this study is to characterize the structures and terminology used in a corpus of tennis narratives. To achieve this, we constituted a corpus of three television narratives of tennis. Based on studies on sports discourse, we identify the terminology and syntactic structures that characterize the tennis discourse in the television narratives of our corpus. Once we identified the structures, we determine their configuration in order to identify certain syntactic patterns in the discourse of this sports discipline and contrast these patterns with those used in other sports narratives. With this article, we intend to contribute to research focused on sports discourse, in particular studies centred on the syntax of television narratives of tennis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This essay addresses how prosodic change operates in the context of languages in contact. To this end, it is based on a selection of relevant studies in the field of Spanish in contact, either with other Romance languages (Arias, 2012; Carvalho, 2006, 2016; Lipski, 2006) or with indigenous languages of Latin America (Barnes & Michnowicz, 2013; Henriksen & Fafulas, 2017; Hualde & Schwegler, 2008; Van Rijswijk & Muntendam, 2014), as well as with US English (Alvord, 2010). In recent years, the scientific community has consistently focused on the way in which prosody can account for the effects of language contact and also, potentially, those effects deriving from contact-induced language change. Although some studies prefer to tackle the issue either based on historical written sources (Arias, 2012) or within a rather general or inclusive theoretical framework (Lipski, 2006; Carvalho, 2016), multiple researchers have focused on the design and application of online instruments, especially sociolinguistic interviews and/or tasks whose goal is to obtain a favorable context to successfully analyze prosodic change involving languages in contact (Barnes & Michnowicz, 2013; Henriksen & Fafulas, 2017; Alvord, 2010). Finally, we highlight the importance of certain sociolinguistic factors (e.g., social prestige found for a particular variety) in defining and establishing prosodic change. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Generally, reformulation implies a process of discursive reinterpretation which attempts to solve problems of semantic origin. To recover and revise contents in order to guarantee enunciative cohesion and progression, different metalinguistic resources called paraphrastic reformulative marks are used, such as defining verb or punctuation marks. This article aims to examine the discursive relationships established between these markers and their presence in contexts of neologisms. On the one hand, the corpus from the data in Catalan collected by the Observatori de Neologia of Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Spain) should provide the response to why there are word formation resources that contain a higher presence of reformulations. On the other hand, it should allow to make a first approach that delimits the functions that markers play in statements which co-occur with neological contexts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the present investigation, the importance, on the one hand of the paratexts of grammars and dictionaries -as well as other types of documents- of Spanish missionary linguistics is revealed; and, on the other, the awareness that the religious had before the variety of the languages of the native peoples. Through a bibliographic review and a study of the prologue to the Art of the Mixtec language (1593) by Antonio de los Reyes, the aim is to understand the reason that led the missionaries to describe one linguistic variety over another. Before examining de los Reyes' prologue, the decisions made by other religious when faced with the same problem in Nahuatl and Quechua are briefly exposed. Thus, it can be verified that, ultimately, the substantial reason that causes the selection of a specific variety for its codification is evangelization; that is to say, that the religious who learned Mixtec from Teposcolula could communicate -to transmit the faith to them-with all the speakers of that language. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This contribution provides a hypothesis to account for semantic change undergone by adjectives designating the concept pleasant smelling in American English, which have come to increasingly denote artificial smells at the expense of natural ones. It is postulated that social and technological developments which occurred in American society during the First and Second Industrial Revolutions might well have steered the semantic fluctuations undergone by the concept. To test this hypothesis, methods used in recent research on the interplay between social and linguistic change are resorted to. In particular, a dictionarybased approach is first adopted, the results of which are then complemented by a more data-driven approach that investigates the conceptualization of a series of semantic domains that might reflect the aforementioned extralinguistic developments. Results offer support to the claim that the semantic change undergone by adjectives from the domain of smell has in all likelihood been influenced by the societal developments taking place in the United States in the period examined. This general move towards more artificiality can therefore not be coincidental, but must be the result of some underlying motivation steering change. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper focuses on Applied Cognitive Linguistics, more specifically on how the different areas within this theoretical perspective contributed to the field of the acquisition and teaching of Spanish as a Foreign Language (SFL). Cognitive Linguistics is not a homogeneous approach to language; it includes different perspectives about language that share some theoretical principles, such as the integration of language with other cognitive abilities. In SFL, Cognitive Grammar has received most of the researchers’ attention but the interest in other areas of Cognitive Linguistics is now growing. The main benefits of applying Cognitive Linguistics to SFL teaching are explained in this paper. The focus is on typological contrasts in the area of motion events (e.g. ir ‘go’ vs. venir ‘come’; dejar ‘leave’/poner ‘put on’/meter ‘put in’) and the difficulties they pose to SFL students. Finally, it is explained how Cognitive Linguistics helps with the new challenges of the acquisition and teaching of SFL, particularly in relation to typological contrasts. For ex*ample, the development of mediation and plurilingual competence through the lens of Cognitive Linguistics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Since the beginning of the 2000s, Applied Cognitive Linguistics has gradually become a pedagogical approach of interest with increasing popularity both in the theoretical and empirical fields, as well as in the classrooms of Spanish as a foreign language (ELE). Many of the core concepts, based on human sensory experience and influenced by the culture of discourse communities (and less by prescriptive language constraints), offer motivated learning which is more focused on usage and less on language as an object of study. If language is understood as embodied and emerging from the physical interaction of human beings with their environment, the learning of L2 can become less foreign and more accessible. Promoting linguistic reflection normalizes cross-linguistic reasoning and improves critical thinking, whereby students are encouraged to make reasoned connections between the languages they know and those they learn. In this article, some of the key principles will be considered, such as prototypes, metaphorical competence or embodiment, among others, to understand how they apply to the instruction of grammatical aspects of Spanish/ L2 and its teaching materials. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An introduction is presented in which editor discusses various articles within the issue on topics including branches of Cognitive Linguistics can be applied to ELE; didactic application for the ELE classroom and grammar of multimodal constructions.