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The formation of the global media space contributes to the active penetration of a different, non-Russian, culture in the domestic media, with one or another broadcast lifestyle having a great impact on the behaviour of young people, shaping, among other things, their oral and written speech through slang. Slang is a rather actively developing lexical layer, new slang units appear in the language every day, they reflect not only cultural values, priorities and aspirations of those who use them, but also demonstrate specific ways of shaping thinking. The study of American slang words and their influence on contemporary Russian youth is especially relevant in the context of information warfare. The authors examine slang words that are reflected in the Russian-language media and social networks, as well as the peculiarities of their influence on the cultural values of adolescents. The materials with slang words, posted from January 2019 to February 2022 in social networks TikTok, VKontakte, on the youth Internet portals QRU, Spletnik, Elle Girl were selected by the method of continuous sampling. The authors reveal their meaning in the context of the analysed publications and come to the conclusion that the active use of such slang units as, for example, crash, cheater, flex, ROFL indicates the priority of idleness in the leisure time of young people. At the same time, teenagers show a lack of interest in cultural leisure: there are no slang expressions for such activities as going to a museum, sightseeing, theatre, concert hall or library.

This article examines the work of Mexican diplomat and jurist Jorge Castañeda as an insight into the trajectory of international legal thought in the semi-periphery on international organizations. It argues that Castañeda adopted a distinct approach to international organizations law that foregrounds power asymmetries. The article considers three interventions made by Castañeda that express this semi-peripheral approach and have lasting relevance. First, it shows how, by focusing on the interests of small powers, Castañeda's work in the 1950s departed from functionalist optimism and stressed the tension between rule by international organizations and domestic rule, emphasizing the centrality of the reserved domain and drawing lessons for strategic legal engagement for small powers. Second, this article studies how Castañeda's concern for the cause of small powers shaped his views on regionalism, grounding his critique of Pan-Americanism and his vindication of the United Nations (UN) to attenuate the perils of regionalism. Third, this article retrieves Castañeda's defence of the UN General Assembly as a platform for international law-making, contextualizes it within the rise of decolonization and explores the implications for his earlier sceptical views about the expansion of UN powers. The article concludes by highlighting the significance of the thought of semi-peripheral jurists for any efforts aimed at re-theorizing international organizations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article analyzes Joaquín García Icazbalceta's Vocabulary of Mexicanisms, published in 1905, and its importance in compiling words and expressions specific to Mexico. García Icazbalceta searched for provincialisms in novels and popular poetry, as well as in dictionaries and encyclopedias. His lexicographic project aimed to provide evidence of the history and usage of Mexican lexicon. The Vocabulary is considered a historical document and a source for studying the use of words in Mexico. Additionally, the sources used by the author to compile these words and expressions are mentioned. García Icazbalceta's Vocabulary of Mexicanisms is a lexicographic and historiographic work that showcases the diversity and persistence of voices in Mexico and America. The article also mentions the grammatical categories and usage markers used in the dictionary, as well as the definitions and usage examples. The vocabulary offers a valuable insight into the dissemination of Spanish and indigenous words in America and is an essential document for studying the history of Americanisms. [Extracted from the article]

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Analizamos El español en Paraguay de Manuel Alvar. Desentrañamos del Atlas aquellas voces que el hablante de España desconoce, los americanismos, y los cotejamos con el Diccionario de la Academia y con el Diccionario de Americanismos de la misma Institución. Además, las hemos comparado con los diccionarios paraguayos existentes. Todo ello para que salgan a la luz voces desconocidas en España o términos cuya localización es insuficiente en las obras lexicográficas.

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The idea of anti-imperialism lacks conceptual and practical homogeneity which can be appealed by different political doctrines and ideological currents. This work aims to characterize the intellectual trajectory of anti-imperialist thought in the Chilean Socialist Party (PS), recognizing its originality, moments of change, and continuities during the period between 1933 and 1967. Far from doctrinal and discursive homogeneity, the different interpretations on this topic are inseparable from the changes in international reality due to internal debate between the socialist intelligentsia, concerned about the dynamics of imperialist penetration in Latin America and the Third World. From that point of view, socialists support and subscribe to different nationalist and antiimperialist programs that linked the national political process with the dynamics of the international system. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Despite frequent associations with Tropicália, Brazilian writer and multimedial artist José Agrippino de Paula has received little critical attention in comparison to other alternative artists associated with the cultural movement. Drawing on Christopher Dunn's exploration of Brazilian counterculture's contradictory relationship to consumerism and cultural dependence, this article examines how Agrippino's anti-novel PanAmérica (1967) and his originallycensored play As Nações Unidas (2019) diverge from his contemporaries' approaches to pan-Latin American identity by ironically appearing to embrace both consumer culture and the US cultural industry. Viewing Agrippino's violent eschewal of genre conventions through the prism of cultura marginal, I contextualize his challenge to contemporary cultural approaches to nationalism before demonstrating how As Nações Unidas acts as a companion piece to PanAmérica that provides new clues for decoding his timely societal critique. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In this paper we analyze El español en Paraguay by Manuel Alvar. We untangle from the Atlas those Americanisms that Spanish speakers do not know, and we compare them with the ones collected in both the Diccionario of the Royal Academy of Spanish Language, and the Diccionario de Americanismos from the same institution. In addition, we have compared those words with the ones collected in current Paraguayan dictionaries. The result is that unknown voices in Spain - or terms whose location is hard to define in lexicographical works - come to light. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The present study analyzes the Quechua loanwords used in the work of Alonso de Ovalle, a 17th century jesuit chronicler of the Indies. Although the Histórica Relación has been studied from different points of view, to date no attention has been paid to the linguistic aspect. The present analysis examines the survival of these words in several lexicographic works published in the last eight years -- the Argentinian Academy of Language (2008), Álvarez Vita (2009), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language (2010), the Chilean Academy of Language (2010), the Royal Spanish Academy of Language (2014), Miño-Garcés (2016), Calvo Pérez (2016) --, as well as the presence of other Americanisms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article explains how intensifying levels of Durkheim's "anomie"--that is, the weakening of social bonds, social alienation and normlessness--lead to the development of a fundamentalist offshoot of American Evangelicalism termed "Rightest Americanism" and its virulent Islamophobia. To begin, it does so by arguing the anomic condition is not uniform, and a variety of intensities are possible. Consequently, Teymoori, Bastian and Jetten describe "high anomie" as containing high levels of disregulation and disintegration. Adding to that, Chak (2019) argues that at its most intense manifestation "anomie écrasant," it includes value incoherence and moral ambivalence across social spheres leading to high levels of social frustration. Collectively, that intense anomic condition leads to a uniquely "conflicted" cultural milieu that cultivates religiopolitical fundamentalism. And, in the United States, this led to a vitriolic strain within Evangelicalism described as "Rightest Americanism," which weaves together the return of Jesus Christ, the destruction of Al-Aqsa Mosque and Islamophobia into a violent, apocalyptic social imaginary. Not only that, it also advocates for World War III and the end of the world. Now, with the presidency of Donald Trump, there are legitimate concerns on how this dangerous ideology poses a danger to global peace. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The approach to the study of the possibilities offered by the journalistic discursive tradition in the characterization of a specific language state can be decisive when drawing conclusions about the oral features of a text written in a given time period. And while it is true that graphic matters will have to be examined with caution when assessing possible linguistic changes-by virtue of the continuous shifting of forms-it is also true that the use of different typographic highlighting mechanisms (italics, bold, small capitals, etc.) could reveal implicit linguistic attitudes, paradoxically specified by a formal instrument that operates on the letterform. In this sense, the author of an editorial or an informational article could use the intended inclination of a graphic type, in order to show what is really said, regardless of whether or not they agree with the method, even though the inclusion of the highlight already implies taking sides. Under the leitmotiv of this idea, we have looked at the use of modifications of the form of letters in the Costa Rican press of the nineteenth century, in order to recover those lexical elements that were intuited as alien to pure Castilian Spanish. This research process aims to fulfill two objectives: 1) identify Costa Rican or Central American idioms and Americanisms, and 2) conclude which linguistic attitudes were hidden in the speaker-writer of that time period. From a methodological point of view, the concept of "discursive traditions" will be used, in order to delimit the specific occurrences of these methods of highlighting letters in a specific typological field, so that the conclusions drawn are filtered through the mechanisms of a methodological domain that imply the relationship between writer/composer, the sociocultural determinants that revolve around the resulting production, the place and moment of the composition, the genre and subgenre of the analyzed text, or the repercussions that the lexicographical and grammatical works of the time exerted on the letterform. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present paper analyzes the words of Mapuche language used in the Histórica Relación del Reino de Chile (1646), a work of the Chilean Alonso de Ovalle. We focus our attention on the survival of these words in current Spanish. For this purpose three lexicographic works published in the last eight years have been consulted: the Diccionario de americanismos (2010), the Spanish Diccionario usual del español de Chile (2010) and the Diccionario de la Lengua Española (2014). Although Ovalle employs other Indo-Americanisms, an aspect that we also deal with, most are words of Mapuche and Quechua. This study aims to contribute to alleviate a gap present in linguistic research on the Ovalle's chronicle. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to highlight the role of nineteenth-century British and American newspapers in promoting and reinforcing a standard pronunciation ideology, one already established in England in the eighteenth century with the need for, in Swift's words, "correcting, improving and ascertaining the English tongue " (Swift 1712) and, as a consequence, reducing linguistic variation and instability. In Britain, the fear of 'linguistic instability' had led to the social stigmatisation and marginalisation of certain, mainly 'provincial', accents, and the consolidation of a linguistic, yet stereotypical, North-South divide (cf. Beal 2009, 2010, 2012 and 2014). In the United States, as a result of the much-acclaimed linguistic independence from Britain, the prescriptivist debate was supported by linguistic patriotism (Sturiale 2012). The focus of my investigation is on external factors in linguistic (in)stability and language change. The data adduced here were drawn from a corpus of more than three hundred nineteenth-century "letters to the editor " and newspaper articles dealing with issues of pronunciation, published both in Britain and the US. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

During the first three decades of the twentieth century, Fort Wayne newspaper editor Jesse Greene used his bully pulpit to attack vice and bigotry in his city. Greene became particularly well-known for exposing the deeply entrenched racism of the Ku Klux Klan after they moved into Fort Wayne in 1921. For two years (until Greene's death in 1923), his newspaper, the Fort Wayne News and Sentinel, condemned the "intolerance, prejudice and hatred" of the organization that Greene considered a "menace to Americanism." As an important voice of the Progressive Era in the Midwest, Greene shaped public opinion across northeast Indiana and throughout the state. Greene's life and work remind contemporary readers of the indispensable role of a free press. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper analyzes a singular political-linguistic event in the framework of the New panhispánica language policy (RAE y ASALE 2004): the publication of the Dictionary of Americanisms (2010). One glottopolitics perspective that considers dictionaries as interventions in public space of language, noting the relationship they establish with broader historical requirements is adopted. The work under study operates as a complementary gesture of the idea of "global Spanish" which would undermine lexical variants conceived as localisms. That is, both models of language, with emphasis on the global or local as appropriate, different meta-linguistic arguments and discourses, participate in a game denoted by the same economic interests, eager to capture a more profitable market. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article discusses the theories surrounding public opinion in the Middle East and Central Asia, its relations with U.S. foreign policy, and its relevance to security cooperation organizations working in the region. Topics include how global perceptions of the U.S. affect SCOs operating in the Middle East and Central Asia, the U.S. foreign policy and Middle Eastern public opinion, and the role of the U.S. government and SCOs to respond to anti-Americanism in the Middle East and Central Asia.

This paper will deal with the problematics of cultural self-representation in Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises. I shall approach this theme by applying concepts from Edward Said's Orientalism and Jean Baudrillard's America to Hemingway's novel and discussing the limitations of such theories which - it will be argued - oversimplify the issue by reducing it to an opposition between 'Self' and 'Otherness'. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article, the Spanish magazine Tierra Firme (1935-1937) is examined, paying attention, in first place, to the context of cultural politics of regenerational character that planned to reestablish the bonds with the Spanish American republics, after the turn-of-the-century crisis. In the second place, after a description of the magazine's most significant characteristics as well as the team of collaborators working in it, some representative samples of articles and reviews about colonial topics are commented, which are organized in three sections: documentary sources, chronicles of the Indies and other colonial texts and, finally, articles with a predominant transatlantic focus. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the autobiography "The Americanization of Edward Bok: The Autobiography of a Dutch Boy Fifty Years After," by Edward Bok, editor of "Ladies' Home Journal," first published in 1920. It argues that the meaning of Americanness started at the beginning of the twentieth century and that the Americanization campaign was intended to fix and define it for both foreign- and native-born. The author contends that it is a discourse of when Americanization was equated with Americanism.

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