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Summary: Origin of the theory about the Pseudo-Theophilus' Paraphrase. – The sudden and abrupt change in Contardo Ferrini's stance towards Theophilus, is attributed here to the misinterpretation of a letter sent to him by Zachariä von Lingenthal on January 31, 1884, just as his magnificent edition of the Paraphrase was on the brink of publication. This circumstance compels him to hastily modify and adapt its Prolegomena to his new theory, leading to significant unforeseen consequences. Furthermore, due to the rush, he also overlooks making modifications in other sections of his edition where, for this reason, Theophilus is still acknowledged as the author of the Paraphrase. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Quality nominalisations (utilidad 'usefulness'), related to adjectives of individual level (X es útil 'X is useful'), and state nominalisations (agitación 'agitation'), associated with adjectives of episodic level (X está agitado 'X is agitated'), can be paraphrased by a noun accompanied by the corresponding adjective (de carácter útil 'of a useful character', situación agitada 'agitated situation'). Ambiguous nominalisations (dificultad 'difficulty') between a sense of quality (la dificultad de X 'X's difficulty' 'cualidad de difícil' 'quality of difficult') and one of state (X está en dificultades 'X is in difficulties' 'en un period difícil' 'in a difficult period') also allow such a paraphrase (naturaleza difícil 'difficult nature', circunstancias difíciles 'difficult circumstances'). In this study I will argue that the nouns co-occurring with adjectives in these contexts are light predicates, insofar as they function as the syntactic head of the phrase, but not as its semantic head. Furthermore, I will show that these nouns can be classified into two types, individual-level and episodic-level light nouns, and that they combine with adjectives of the same aspectual type, sometimes serving as disambiguators of those adjectives. In particular, I will focus on individual-level light nouns, which I will describe, contrasting them first with light verbs, and then with episodic-level light nouns. In order to carry out this task, carácter 'character', naturaleza 'nature' and índole 'disposition' have been selected as representative of the class of individual-level light nouns, and their behaviour will be analysed on the basis of examples taken from CORPES XXI. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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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]

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Paraphrasing the title of Rancière's book On the edges of politics, this article explores a possible notion of biopolitics. This notion is not necessarily concerned with the ways in which power is present in the devices for disciplining bodies and the regulation of the life of populations as Foucault put it or by narrowing and confusing the notions of Bíos and Zoé present in Agamben's reflection. On the contrary, it tries to propose a conceptualization that account for the experience of production and expansion of life alternatives, inscribed in the field of political struggle, which have been gestated in different social movements. With this in mind, the article talks about recent expressions in feminist demonstrations in several Latin American countries in order to question the possible meanings of social demands that put in the foreground the defense of life. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Serbal (2019) is an unpublished collection of poems by Leonce Lupette (Göttingen, 1986), a French-German writer, poet and translator who has lived in Argentina for several years. In this collection of poems, structured alphabetically as a sort of encyclopedia or incomplete notes, the explorer-botanist-poet proposes an expanded way of seeing and inhabiting reality, exploring ways to describe reality and expressing oneself in a playful exercise of blurring the borders between names and languages. The poems are written in Spanish, but also in German, French, English, Portuguese, Portunhol, among other languages and dialects, and they compel us to look at the world and to inhabit it from the small differences and to build what we could call "inessential communities", paraphrasing Agamben (1996). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Since Baker (1968) suggested the term concealed question --which, following Devís Márquez (forthcoming), we translate as "interrogativa encubierta"-- to refer to a DP that complements a verb and can be paraphrased by an indirect question (Preguntó el precio/Preguntó cuál era el precio), one of the most debated issues in the literature on languages other than Spanish has been, beside the concept of concealed question itself, what nouns can appear in this type of constructions. However, this issue has practically gone unnoticed in the descriptive grammar of Spanish. This article aims to deal with the ensuing shortcomings of Spanish grammar as well as to review the proposals that fall outside the context of Hispanic linguistics. Most importantly, on the assumption that concealed questions are predicate complements that are remaining elements of an elliptical specificational copular sentence within an indirect question, it will be shown that the type of noun, though irrelevant for the licensing of this kind of structure, plays an important role in its interpretation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article is an attempt to articulate a series of scattered reflections on the relations between historical thought and criticism of Eurocentrism; or to put it another way, by paraphrasing the title of an essay by Santiago Castro-Gómez, it aims at introducing a set of "open questions" concerning the possibility, or impossibility, of making a decolonial philosophy of history. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In the first half of the fifth century, Nonnus of Panopolis uses Homeric Greek to paraphrase the Gospel of Saint John in about 3700 dactylic hexameters. In the present work we try to discover, through the analysis of the Christological titles used in the poem, what the figure of Jesus of Nazareth means to Nonnus of Panopolis. After examining the passages that present Jesus as sent and revealed by the Father, the Christological titles that refer more directly to the essence of Jesus are analyzed: Logos, true God, only begotten Son of God, wise Son of man and true Christ. Next, the titles related to two of the tria munera (king and prophet) are studied and the «I am» of Jesus are analyzed. Nonnus, while rebuilding the Gospel story step by step and decorating it with a very elaborate language and literary technique, is shaping in the mind of the reader a figure of Christ in which are highlighted his power, his royalty and especially his divinity. The poet avoids the Christological polemics affecting the Alexandrian environment during the fifth century, because his work is not a commentary on the Gospel text, but a rereading that maintains, although with some ambiguity, orthodoxy, and seeks to make the message of the Gospel more attractive for a cultured public. In order to make the study of the work more accessible and facilitate future research, the first complete translation in Spanish of the Paraphrase is also offered. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The objective of this work is to present a teaching proposal based on the advances of our research about the treatment that Argentina's secondary education manuals give to subordinate clauses, in particular to "improper" adverbial ones. Since the manuals present in most cases the prototypical structures and in the activities they fundamentally propose that the student assign labels to the sequences, in this case we will focus on a proposal that leads the student to discover and reflect on the coherence and internal relations of the grammatical system. To do this, the performance of paraphrase constitutes a procedure that would help enrich the use of the language and reflect on aspects of the grammar of Spanish that may influence the recognition of the value of this type of adverbial subordinate sentences. Thus, the conceptual content that manifests a prototypical conditional period consisting of an if clause protasis and an apodosis, can be manifested through another structures (Albano and Ghio 2014). On the basis of the paraphrase it is also possible to propose the realization of prototypical periods or with alternative constructions that must be recognized by the students. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The intention to define life after death has been an ongoing insistence, and so the consoling pursuit to specify an origin of life has prevailed. We perform a (bio)literary criticism on the foolishness of looking for that space-time coordinate from which the (living) form began to be such, assuming that in another place, and earlier, there was no life, only matter and energy. In this work, through a very serious game (of words), laboris gloria Ludi, which is a semantic exercise, which is a bio-literary paraphrase, we reveal-using the method of transfinitude of the Spanish-American philosopher Juan David García Bacca- that life did not appear suddenly but persists eternally. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper examines the translations by Aphra Behn based on the tripartite classification that John Dryden established between metaphrase, paraphrase and imitation. Behn employs mainly metaphrase in her translations of La Rochefoucault; paraphrase in her versions of Cowley and Tallemant, among others; while applying the imitation to Aesop's Fables. It is found that Behn breaks with the tradition of translating principally classical authors, broadening channels for the entrance of modern literature into England and expanding the possibilities of literary translation. Analyzing the samples, the author's occasional manipulation of the original text is identified, consonant with her creative ideas and generating a metatext featuring new political and gender resonances contextualized in her era. It is also concluded that the professional writer of the Restoration employs translation spurred by the tastes of the burgeoning literary market, among other factors, shaped by recent developments in France and, as such, motivated by commercial interests. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper approaches the interrelation between oral and written speech in Plato's dialogues from a linguistic perspective. By means of a methodological framework provided by the recent studies focused on the spoken/written variation, a twofold model is proposed to examine Platonic dialogues in the crossroads of the two communicative situations involved in them: the one between author and reader and the one inside the literary fiction. A case study based on Republic shows how the paraphrases constructed as mere appositions can be interpreted as features related to the spoken bias present in the text. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Traditional grammarians have pointed out a co reference relation between the constituents in apposition. They argue that this semantic equivalence allows the two component structures to be easily reversible. Some authors tend to associate apposition with paraphrase, which is usually defined as a restatement of the meaning of a text or passage using other words. Within the framework of the Cognitive- Prototype Theory, we have stated in previous studies (Barbeito, 1999 and 2007a) that speakers use apposition to (re)conceptualize in a different way an entity already mentioned. Also that apposition shows a great degree of coherence between its component structures. This paper deals with a qualitative description of semantic, pragmatic and syntactic features of apposition in order to establish the relation between apposition and paraphrase. We argue that apposition is a grammaticalization of prototypical paraphrasing strategies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Given the importance of paraphrasing as part of the process of comprehension for college students, this study assessed the level of implementation of text analysis and paraphrasing in the responses of a sample of undergraduate psychology majors. We selected a group of freshmen, who were asked to answer a questionnaire and write a summary of an empirical article. The results indicate that participants possess low levels of both text analysis and paraphrasing. It was seen that verbatim text copying prevailed; nevertheless, possibilities for structuring a training workshop were discerned. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this work is to verify the modulation of motivation, self-concept, and causal attributions in the efficacy of a training program of strategies to elaborate information in the stage of Compulsory Secondary Education (CSE). We selected 328 students from CSE, 179 from second grade and 149 from fourth grade, and three measurement moments: pretest, posttest, and follow-up. The results indicate greater use of learning strategies by students with higher intrinsic motivation, in contrast to students with higher extrinsic motivation, who use learning strategies less frequently. With regard to self-concept, the results differ as a function of the course. In second grade, we found modulation of the variable Academic self-concept, whereas in fourth grade, such modulation is produced by General self-concept and Private self-concept. In general, there is a tendency towards more enduring significant improvements in students with medium and high self-concept, especially in their perception of the use of strategies or in complex tasks that involve relating the contents to be learned with experiences from their daily life. However, students with low self-concept significantly improve strategies associated with learning how to perform specific tasks. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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