Volumen 34, Número 2
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Etnología cognitiva. Análisis conceptual funcional de producción idiomática.
(2012-08-23)Idiomatic expressions produce “popular categories”, key and quite stable concepts that shape everyday understanding. The expressions bring scenes or images that need to be transformed into the popular category or categories ... -
Metáforas para la formación de la categoría de número plural en las lenguas criollas.
(2012-08-23)This article explains how grammaticalization of abstract linguistic categories crystallizes in specific languages through processes of metaphoric or analogical extension with a strong cognitive basis, analizing the emergence ... -
Drilling and color-coding systems: a comparative analysis of two pronunciation techniques to improve L2 learners production of the -(e)d inflectional
(2012-08-23)This study analyzes the usefulness of drilling and color-coding systems to help a group of advanced English students pronounce the -(e)d inflectional ending in past and past participial forms of regular verbs. Subjects ... -
Las semiconsonantes y semivocales en los diptongos del español: propuesta de análisis fonológico.
(2012-08-23)This article studies some important points about glides in Spanish, since their phonological status doesn't seem to be clear. It raises the following issues: if, in fact, it's relevant a division between semivowels and ... -
Entre la alucinación y la realidad: El caso 117.720 de Carmen Naranjo Coto.
(2012-08-23)The main objective of this paper is to disentangle the essence of Carmen Naranjo's novel El caso 117.729. This extraordinary novel expounds the reality of a society that is disintegrating, vanishing, and rotting, similar ... -
Enseñanza de español como segunda lengua para adultos mayores: algunas consideraciones.
(2012-08-23)This article reviews previous investigations that relate teaching a second language with the age of learners, particularly those studies that analyze the learning differences at different ages. Furthermore, it presents the ... -
Las estrategias del poder traumatizante de un dictador en La fiesta del chivo, de Mario Vargas Llosa.
(2012-08-23)In this article the Dominican dictador Trujillo’s strategies of totalitarian control will be analyzed as portrayed in La fiesta del Chivo: he projects himself as the Father of the Nation while at the same time he systematically ... -
Las digresiones del lenguaje, mea culpa, fastidium, dubitatio, y carnaval en La Florida del Inca Garcilaso de la Vega.
(2012-08-23)Although much has been written about el Inca Garcilaso de la Vega's Comentario reales, his chronicle about Hernando de Soto's adventure in the American southeast has never enjoyed the same reception. Be it for its supposed ... -
El baile y la música populares como espacio de formación en Virgilio Mora: algunos ejemplos de La distancia del último adiós.
(2012-08-23)This work investigates two relationships of La distancia del último adiós (1995), “Figueredo” and “Excelente para la piel” in which the Costa Rican Virgilio Mora skillfully develops the meaning that is represented by the ... -
El tema de Las horas del día desde el costumbrismo hasta el cine vanguardista de las Sinfonías urbanas.
(2012-08-23)For more than two centuries, the hours of the day have displaced the seasons as subject matter of artistic and literary representation. It is a theme in use in the urban scenes of the international costumbrism of the 19th ... -
The Buenos Aires affair: parodia y puesta en abismo. Olvido de amor no correspondido.
(2012-08-23)This article demonstrates that there exist a connection between epigraphs and the plot in the novel The Buenos Aires Affair by Manuel Puig. The bond mentioned above is called “mise en abyme” which means that paragraphs and ...
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