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Los encapsuladores anafóricos: una propuesta de clasificación

2018

En este trabajo se define desde un punto de vista formal, semántico e informativo un tipo de sintagmas nominales encapsuladores. Se trata de sintagmas nominales con un componente anafórico que reifican y recategorizan fragmentos discursivos para convertirlos en puntos de anclaje informativos (temas) a partir de los cuales poder desarrollar el discurso. Son los llamados encapsuladores anafóricos (temáticos). Se propone asimismo una clasificación de los tipos de sintagmas que pueden desempeñar esta función discursiva, atendiendo a 3 parámetros: (a) la naturaleza léxico-semántica del núcleo nominal; (b) la presencia o ausencia de componentes axiológicos en el sintagma, y (c) el elemento sintag…

Perceived similarity between written Estonian and Finnish : Strings of letters or morphological units?

2017

The distance or similarity between two languages can be objective or actual, i.e. discoverable by the tools and methods of linguists, or perceived by users of the languages. In this article two methods, the Levenshtein Distance (LD), which purports to measure the objective distance, and the Index of Perceived Similarity (IPS), which quantifies language users’ perceptions, are compared. The data are the quantitative results of a test measuring conscious perceptions of similarity between Estonian and Finnish inflectional morphology by Finnish and Estonian native speakers (‘Finns’ and ‘Estonians’) with no knowledge of and exposure to the other (‘target’) language. The results show that Finns s…

Digging up the frequency of phrasal verbs in English for the Police: the case of up

2016

The present study focuses on the frequency of phrasal verbs with the particle up in the context of crime and police investigative work. This research emerges from the need to enlarge McCarthy and O’Dell’s (2004) scope from purely criminal behavior to police investigative actions. To do so, we relied on a corpus of 504,124 running words made up of spoken dialogues extracted from the script of the American TV series Castle shown on ABC since 2009. Based on Rudzka-Ostyn’s (2003) cognitive motivations for the particle up, we have identified five different meaning extensions for our phrasal verbs. Drawing from these findings, we have designed pedagogical activities for those L2 learners that stu…

Spatio-temporal deixis and cognitive models in early Indo-European

2018

AbstractThis paper is a comparative study based on the linguistic evidence in Vedic Sanskrit and Homeric Greek, aimed at reconstructing the space-time cognitive models used in the Proto-Indo-European language in a diachronic perspective. While it has been widely recognized that ancient Indo-European languages construed earlier (and past) events as in front of later ones, as predicted in the Time-Reference-Point mapping, it is less clear how in the same languages the passage took place from this ‘archaic’ Time-RP model or non-deictic sequence, in which future events are behind or follow the past ones in a temporal sequence, to the more recent ‘post-archaic’ Ego-RP model that is found only fr…

Using evaluation criteria and rubrics as learning tools in subtitling for the D/deaf and the hard of hearing

2018

This paper focuses on the use of evaluation criteria and rubrics as tools for training in an audiovisual translation mode: subtitling for the D/deaf and the hard of hearing (SDH). Following an introduction to the current conception of and research carried out on quality assurance and assessment both in the translation industry and academia, a brief overview of the assessment processes and instruments used in SDH university training and in the professional sector is provided. This is followed by a case study of SDH assessment practices in Spain. Two questionnaires were filled in by five service providers and 12 university trainers, and the data gathered has enabled a better understanding of …

Das jhwh-Heiligtum am Garizim: ein archäologischer Befund und seine literar- und theologiegeschichtliche Einordnung

2018

AbstractNo later than the midst of the 5th century the recently discovered sanctuary on Mt.Gerizim was the cultic center of the SamarianYhwh-worshippers, later known as the Samaritans. The sanctuary was in every way comparable to its counterpart in Jerusalem. The author investigates the question why there is so little mentioning of the sanctuary in the Bible at all; only the location “Mount Gerizim” is mentioned a few times in the Tora. Albeit its obvious absence in the texts, there seem to be several, enciphered mentions of the Samaria sanctuary in the later part of the (Judean) canon (Ketubim and Nebi’im). Altogether they criticize the cult on Mt.Gerizim in this very indirect way. The aut…

Gattopardo nel Gattopardo

2010

La retórica de la providentia como narración en la obra historiográfica de Antonio de Nebrija

2010

Ejemplar dedicado a: "Les espècies narratives al relat i a l'escena" [ES] La historia es narración y para antonio de Nebrija la verdad histórica es una cuestión de subjetividad y estilo a partes Iguales. Este artículo intenta desvelar los usos narrativos que hace Nebrija en su obra historiográfica de la "divina providentia" como manifestación privilegiada de su iudicium de historiador. [EN] History is a narration and the historical truth for Antonio de Nebrija is a well-balanced matter of subjectivity and style to equeal parts. This paper tries to reveal in Nebrija's historical narrative the values of the "divina providentia" being privileged expression of his iudicium as historian. Partici…

"Frater, ave atque vale" (Catull. 101.10): fortuna literaria de una fórmula epigráfica

2011

Trabajo realizado dentro del Grupo de Investigación «Tradiciones Clásicas» de la UPV/EHU (GIU-07-26) [ES] En este artículo ofrecemos un panorama con algunos de los autores modernos –Tennyson, Swinburne, V. Woolf, G. Moore, C.K. Stead y Anne Carson– que han dado nueva vida al motivo del saludo directo al difunto, a partir del carmen 101 de Catulo, cuyo verso 10 sigue gozando de un especial éxito, apoyado por la efectiva simplicidad de su saludo emotivo al hermano y de su forma, asequible y reconocible aun cuando el conocimiento de la lengua latina sea menor. [EN] In this article we offer an overview of some of the modern authors (specially Tennyson, Swinburne, V. Woolf, G. Moore, C.K. Stead,…

Tur e Iraj, Caín y Abel: Semejanzas iconográficas en la interminable lucha del mal y el bien.

2015

ABSTRACT: The duality between good and evil is a common topic in all civilizations regardless of chronology or geographical location. It is a conflict reflected in art history, and on the present occasion, through the iconographic types of Cain killing Abel as well as Tur murdering Iraj. The roots of these myths are deeply embedded in two highly relevant written sources, the Bible and the Shahnameh or The Book of Kings . The latter was written by the great Iranian poet Ferdowsi.  The legends, despite having different origins, nevertheless have many similarities and they share a particular iconographic type. I analyze each of the myths along with their pictorial representations, which connec…