Orkopata. Revista de Lingüística, Literatura y Arte
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publisher: Instituto Universitario de Innovación Ciencia y Tecnología Inudi Perú
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publication name: Orkopata. Revista de Lingüística, Literatura y Arte
issn: 2955-8263
items: Subject and parlêtre: (dis)encounters between the late Lacan and discourse analysis
items: Preferential constraints and the order of postverbal object noun phrases in Spanish ditransitive sentences: definiteness and clitic position
items: The presence of diatopic and diastratic variation in a Chinese textbook for Spanish as a foreign language
items: How can AI-assisted literary translation from Spanish into Chinese be improved?
items: Juan Parra del Riego: a song to the vertiginous nature of the world
items: Characterization of teaching jargon on scenarios of technological mediation of teaching processes, Colombia
items: War metaphor in Chinese political-institutional discourse and its official Spanish translation
items: Motherhood in Margarita by Josefina Pelliza de Sagasta
items: How does Spanish resolve the coercion imposed by Chinese nominal classifiers?
items: Translation strategies and methods of culturemes in the Chinese President’s New Year messages
items: Is lumpen its pedigree? The lumpen as a recurring poetic resource in Joaquín Sabina of the eighties
items: Translation strategies for phraseological metaphors in Chinese political discourse into Spanish
items: Language as the context of the psychological: function versus morphology in the study of linguistic behavior
items: Design of a didactic resource for the psychopedagogical intervention of students with written language disorders (dyslexia-dysgraphia): a systematic review
items: he guitar as a poetic symbol in Dominican bachata
items: Inferences in memes and digital news about politics: a multimodal comprehension test among costa rican university students
items: Cognitivist analysis of the resultative semantics of phrasal verbs with chu (出 'out') in Chinese
items: Shadows and lights of pedagogical translation
items: constructional approach to the resultative semantics of the v+shang (上‘up’) construction in chinese
items: The translation of Chinese dish names into Spanish from the perspective of semantic and communicative translation
items: Information load and discourse anaphora: a comparison between Spanish and mandarin Chinese
items: The comparison of animal figures in Chinese and Spanish proverbs: the case of bovine livestock
items: Identity, memory, and truth in 'Tantas voces, una historia' by Eleonora María Smolensky and Vera Vigevani Jarach
items: “Quiero ser negro”: black identity from the perspective of being and appearing
items: Song "Mexico lindo y querido" by Jesús Monge Ramírez, through discourse analysis
items: The poem "¡dolor, dolor!, eterna vida mía" by José Martí through discourse analysis
items: The poem "La Calle" by Octavio Paz through discourse analysis
items: Discourse analysis of the song: "Jueves" by the Spanish band La Oreja de Van Gogh
items: Discursive analysis of the song “Bandera Blanca” by Camila
items: Interpretation of 'Tití me Preguntó' by Bad Bunny through discourse analysis

Subject and parlêtre: (dis)encounters between the late Lacan and discourse analysis
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description: Discourse analysis, particularly the approaches grounded in Pêcheux’s work, is based on the psychoanalytic proposal that challenges the idealist perspective of an autonomous subjectivity, since it introduces the problem of the subject into language. In Lacan’s later teachings, this conceptualization becomes more complex through the term parlêtre. However, this notion has not yet been reviewed from the perspective of discourse studies, nor have its implications been examined in light of its differences from the subject of the unconscious. This article therefore examines the notion of parlêtre that appears in Lacan’s developments during the 1970s and, as an academic essay, proposes an analytical examination of those textual zones in which the term appears. For some authors, this neologism, which subordinates being to speech, replaces Lacan’s conceptualization of the subject insofar as it modifies the way of understanding the unconscious. Based on this inquiry, the article concludes that both the term parlêtre and the subject coexist during this period. Spoken by lalangue, the parlêtre calls into question the uniqueness of meaning commonly associated with language and points toward a rethinking of the constitution of the subject beyond the symbolic field, by privileging equivocation and failure in language as conditions inherent to discursive operation.
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creator: Karina Savio
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Karina Savio (Autor/a) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2026-04-02
publication date: 2026-04-02
starting page: 7
ending page: 23
doi: 10.35622/j.ro.2026.02.001

Preferential constraints and the order of postverbal object noun phrases in Spanish ditransitive sentences: definiteness and clitic position
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description: Spanish is a flexible language that allows object complements to be distributed according to the direct object-indirect object and indirect object-dierct object orders. However, in actual discourse, these two orders are not used proportionally. The predominance of one order over the other raises the question of the factors that may motivate the choice of each order. The aim of this work is to determine the impact of definiteness and pronominality on the order of postverbal object noun phrases in ditransitive sentences in Spanish. The theoretical framework is based on the assumptions of quantitative and experimental syntax regarding the study of preferential constraints in corpora. A total of 852 occurrences were analysed for definiteness and 325 for clitic position, extracted from ADESSE corpus. This allowed us to develop contingent tables for each factor and highlight their proportions. To verify the independence between these factors and the order of postverbal object noun phrases, we performed an inferential statistical analysis using the chi-square test and Cramer's V. The results indicate a considerable significance level for definiteness, with a p-value greater than 0.05, whereas the effect of clitic position, with a p-value lower than 0.05, is insignificant. These results should be considered preliminary, as they derive from exploratory study that could be further strengthened through research based on psycholinguistic experimentation.
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creator: Girex Eloundou
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Girex Eloundou (Autor/a) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2026-04-09
publication date: 2026-04-09
starting page: 24
ending page: 38
doi: 10.35622/j.ro.2026.02.002

The presence of diatopic and diastratic variation in a Chinese textbook for Spanish as a foreign language
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description: The presentation of linguistic variation in teaching materials is crucial for the development of students’ sociolinguistic competence. This article first classifies linguistic variation in Spanish. Taking as its object of study the Chinese Spanish-as-a-foreign-language textbook series Modern Spanish, a content analysis is conducted to analyze and evaluate how diatopic and diastratic variation is addressed. The results show that the “main road–detour” approach adopted by this material in presenting diatopic varieties leads to an imbalance in students’ linguistic competence and motivation when they encounter American Spanish, compared with their command of Peninsular Spanish. Therefore, a “Y-shaped bifurcation” model is advocated for presenting diatopic variation, so as to transfer autonomous decision-making to learners in their learning process. At the same time, the study notes that the material does not sufficiently consider students’ age-related characteristics, as it focuses mainly on the cultivated variety; consequently, it is suggested that the discursive features of young Spanish speakers be incorporated into a wider range of communicative situations in order to enrich the diastratic dimension.
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creator: Xinyue Wang
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Xinyue Wang (Autor/a) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2026-01-08
publication date: 2026-01-08
starting page: 7
ending page: 23
doi: 10.35622/j.ro.2026.01.001

How can AI-assisted literary translation from Spanish into Chinese be improved?
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description: In the field of artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted translation, the growing use of large language models (LLMs) opens up new possibilities for machine translation. Nevertheless, their application to literary texts continues to pose challenges related to the preservation of style and cultural nuances. In this context, the present study examines how to improve the quality of literary translation from Spanish into Chinese through the use of LLMs and post-editing. To this end, a sequential explanatory mixed-methods approach was adopted, with an exploratory-descriptive scope and a comparative character. Four prompts of increasing complexity were designed, and the translations generated by AI were compared with a human reference translation. The results show that the use of LLMs, combined with human post-editing, can improve the quality of literary translation from Spanish into Chinese. On the one hand, this improvement depends on the formulation of detailed prompts that include contextual information, such as the translator’s role, the literary style of the text, and reference examples. On the other hand, it also depends on post-editing aimed at making the language sound more natural and adapting expressions to the target culture. Human intervention is recommended at three levels: adjustment of register and literary rhythm, cultural adaptation through the use of idioms and metaphors characteristic of Chinese, and correction of the excessive use of punctuation marks.
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creator: Yufei Cao
creator: Yiwen Ding
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Yufei Cao, Yiwen Ding (Autor/a) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2026-03-11
publication date: 2026-03-11
starting page: 24
ending page: 38
doi: 10.35622/j.ro.2026.01.002

Juan Parra del Riego: a song to the vertiginous nature of the world
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description: This article revisits the life and work of the Peruvian poet Juan Parra del Riego, a key figure for understanding the artistic and social transformations that followed the First World War. From a contemporary perspective, it combines classical readings with recent contributions that shed new light on his literary production. The study addresses his poetic evolution and his transition from modernism to the avant-garde. In addition, it examines the development of innovative metrical structures in his work, as well as the aesthetic dialogue with figures such as Manuel González Prada. His role as a translator is also analyzed, along with his ability to condense, through accelerated images and vertiginous forms, the dynamic and agitated spirit of his time. For all these reasons, the article pays tribute to an author whose work stands as a vibrant testimony to Latin American modernity.
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creator: Ainhoa Segura Zariquiegui
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Ainhoa Segura Zariquiegui (Autor/a) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-12-19
publication date: 2025-12-19
starting page: 32
ending page: 44
doi: 10.35622/j.ro.2025.04.002

Characterization of teaching jargon on scenarios of technological mediation of teaching processes, Colombia
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description: Teacher jargon has undergone transformations resulting from the technological mediation of educational processes. In this regard, this article aims to characterize the transformation of teachers’ jargon at Chiloé Educational Institution between 2020 and 2024, based on the technological mediation of teaching processes. The study employs a qualitative, descriptive, and interpretive methodology. The corpus consists of twenty primary school lessons (ten in-person and ten virtual) observed between 2020 and 2024. The data were analyzed according to four linguistic criteria: sociolinguistics (teacher jargon and languages in contact), semantics (neologisms and semantic shifts), pragmatics (recontextualization of expressions, presuppositions, and implicatures), and syntax (word order and non-conventional constructions). The results reveal a transformation of teacher jargon characterized by the incorporation of new technological terms, the reinterpretation of traditional pedagogical concepts, and the adaptation of communicative strategies to the interactive conditions of digital environments. Furthermore, the findings confirm a growing discursive hybridization between traditional pedagogical orality and new forms of communication mediated by technology. It is concluded that technological mediation has impacted teacher jargon through the emergence of neologisms, semantic changes, and discursive adaptations that reflect the transformation of pedagogical practices toward digital environments.
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creator: Walter Martínez
creator: Ronald González
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Walter Martínez, Ronald González (Autor/a) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-11-01
publication date: 2025-11-01
starting page: 7
ending page: 31
doi: 10.35622/j.ro.2025.04.001

War metaphor in Chinese political-institutional discourse and its official Spanish translation
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description: This study examined war metaphor in Chinese political-institutional discourse on the basis of a parallel corpus drawn from Volume IV of Xi Jinping tan zhiguo lizheng (2022) and its official Spanish translation, Xi Jinping: La gobernación y administración de China (2023). The analysis relied on aligned Chinese–Spanish units that made it possible to identify the dominant subdomain and the associated discursive function in the source text. Translation decisions were classified into three strategies: frame preservation, reframing, and demetaphorization or explicitation. The analysis showed that indicators of the WAR domain were mainly clustered in repertoires related to planning and confrontation. In the Spanish version, frame preservation was observed when the framing coincided with already stabilized uses in Spanish political discourse, whereas reframing and explicitation were used in segments with higher figurative density or when the image could acquire greater visibility for Spanish-speaking readers. The results indicated that translation was not accounted for by the binary opposition between preserving and eliminating the metaphor, but rather by a continuum of adjustment guided by the segment’s discursive function, in which microtextual choices of formulation modulated the frame’s visibility and its pragmatic effect in Spanish.
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creator: Fan Wu
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Fan Wu (Autor/a) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-12-28
publication date: 2025-12-28
starting page: 45
ending page: 61
doi: 10.35622/j.ram.2026.02.002

Motherhood in Margarita by Josefina Pelliza de Sagasta
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description: Motherhood is a controversial theme that has evolved over the centuries. In the nineteenth century, pregnancy was perceived through a scientistic and patriotic lens, and women’s national duty was promoted through the media. Artistic works consolidated the image of a faithful, protective, devoted, and submissive mother. However, this ideal was challenged by movements such as the "silent revolution." Josefina Pelliza de Sagasta employed melodrama in her novel Margarita to convey a vision of motherhood in support of the homeland, in contrast to European immigration. This article analyzes how this discourse reflects the patriarchal perspective of the period regarding pregnancy. A hermeneutic analysis was applied, based on the proposals on melodrama outlined by Peter Brooks. Thus, it becomes evident, through the characters’ actions, that motherhood acquires a positive and patriotic trait in the work of the Argentine writer.
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creator: Álvaro Boada
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Álvaro Boada (Autor/a) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-09-24
publication date: 2025-09-24
starting page: 40
ending page: 53
doi: 10.35622/j.ro.2025.03.003

How does Spanish resolve the coercion imposed by Chinese nominal classifiers?
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description: In coercive cases, Chinese nominal classifiers function as syntactic triggers that initiate the entire process of recategorization and reinterpretation of nouns, while simultaneously providing relevant cues for the construction of context. Within the framework of the operational model of the Universals and Typology Project (UNITYP), this article analyzes the roles performed by Chinese nominal classifiers in coercion, such as the apprehension of objects, the construction of syntactic relations, nominal reclassification, pluralization, anaphoric identification, and the mutual conversion between proper names and common nouns. A small investigation is conducted on the basis of a parallel corpus with the purpose of examining how Spanish resolves the coercion imposed by nominal classifiers. The study concludes that Spanish, lacking nominal classifiers, resorts to diverse morphological and lexical instruments to resolve this type of coercion. This research not only contributes to a deeper understanding of the syntactic and semantic functions of Chinese nominal classifiers but also offers practical implications for Chinese language teaching and translation between the two languages, facilitating more effective strategies to manage structural differences.
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creator: Yufei Cao
creator: Yiwen Ding
creator: Ting Wang
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Yufei Cao, Yiwen Ding, Ting Wang (Autor/a) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-09-24
publication date: 2025-09-24
starting page: 7
ending page: 18
doi: 10.35622/j.ro.2025.03.001

Translation strategies and methods of culturemes in the Chinese President’s New Year messages
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description: The objective of this research is to analyze the culturemes present in the Chinese New Year presidential messages delivered between 2023 and 2025, identifying the relationship between their cultural connotations and the choice of translation strategies and methods. The study is grounded in cultural translation theory and applies a corpus-based approach that combines quantitative and qualitative analysis to examine the strategies and methods employed. The findings reveal that culturemes reflect cultural connotations related to a positive attitude and the fundamental values of Chinese society, national colors and subjective states, national identity and spirit, as well as natural landscapes and seasonal concepts. The study concludes that these cultural connotations directly influence the selection of translation strategies and methods, such as foreignization, used to highlight Chinese identity; domestication, which facilitates comprehension; or a combination of both, which balances the two approaches and ensures accurate cultural transmission. Therefore, translators must make decisions based on the different cultural connotations in order to achieve effective communication.
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creator: Shiyang Liu
creator: Jinrong Wu
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Shiyang Liu, Jinrong Wu (Autor/a) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-09-24
publication date: 2025-09-24
starting page: 19
ending page: 39
doi: 10.35622/j.ro.2025.03.002

Is lumpen its pedigree? The lumpen as a recurring poetic resource in Joaquín Sabina of the eighties
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description: The lumpen as a social phenomenon has notably influenced the songwriting of singer-songwriter Joaquín Sabina. This gave him the reputation of an artist interested in incorporating characters and scenes linked to lumpen environments into his lyrics, environments he himself frequented and participated in, mainly during the 1970s and 1980s. The lumpen, a category brought to prominence by Marx and Engels and later addressed by other theorists like Walter Benjamin, is the concept to explore in this study through Joaquín Sabina's songs. He adopted this figure as a fundamental element of his poetic songwriting because it fit well with a model that resonated with his youthful and rebellious spirit, which led him to clandestinely exile to London in the late 1970s. The lumpen has endowed many of his lyrics with a sense of romanticism and insubordination. Characters such as delinquents like El Jaro or El Dioni, or bohemians like the magician Tolito, parade through his work. Over time, this trait has gradually diminished in his albums but has never completely disappeared. The lumpen universe, therefore, has become a characteristic hallmark of Sabina, who leaves in his work a social testimony of a lived time.
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creator: Diego Vadillo
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Diego Vadillo (Autor/a) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-04-10
publication date: 2025-04-10
starting page: 7
ending page: 17
doi: 10.35622/j.ro.2025.02.001

Translation strategies for phraseological metaphors in Chinese political discourse into Spanish
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description: This study examines translation strategies applied to metaphorical phraseological units in Chinese political discourse, with the aim of identifying effective approaches for their adaptation into Spanish in intercultural contexts. The research is grounded in conceptual metaphor theory and a corpus consisting of political speeches by Chinese President Xi Jinping and their official Spanish translations, and analyzes four predominant techniques: equivalence, transfer, substitution, and omission. The study reveals specific challenges related to preserving symbolic value, cultural resonance, and rhetorical effectiveness in the target language. The results show that functional equivalence and creative adaptation enable more effective metaphorical transfer, particularly in ideologically marked discourse. Moreover, the translator’s subjectivity is highlighted as a mediating agent between divergent cultural codes, with decisions oscillating between interpretative proactivity and normative passivity. The study proposes practical guidelines to optimize translation according to discourse typology and target audience profile, and emphasizes that translating political metaphors requires not only linguistic competence but also intercultural sensitivity and rigorous methodological criteria. This work contributes to the applied study of political-discursive translation between Chinese and Spanish by proposing systematized strategies and evaluative criteria aimed at strengthening intercultural communication and establishing parameters for translation practice in diplomatic and academic contexts.
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creator: Fan Wu
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Fan Wu (Autor/a) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-04-30
publication date: 2025-04-30
starting page: 18
ending page: 35
doi: 10.35622/j.ro.2025.02.002

Language as the context of the psychological: function versus morphology in the study of linguistic behavior
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description: This article points out that, among the diverse approaches in the psychology of language, the most suggestive trend is the behavioral current, because it conceives language as the context of the psychological. This expression draws on Wittgenstein's concept of the "form of life" applied to language, in the sense that it approaches it as an encompassing conventional framework that gives meaning to human behavior. This perspective goes beyond the mere formal-morphological analysis that has characterized most psycholinguistic and constructivist approaches, focusing instead on the function of verbal-symbolic exchanges between individuals. From this point of view, the proposals of J. R. Kantor and B. F. Skinner, as well as the contributions of their followers (Ribes' interbehaviorism and Hayes' relational frame theory), are deemed the most appropriate. This assertion is justified in philosophical, theoretical, methodological, and technological terms.
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creator: William Montgomery-Urday
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 William Montgomery-Urday (Autor/a) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-09-24
publication date: 2025-09-24
starting page: 7
ending page: 18
doi: 10.35622/j.ro.2025.01.001

Design of a didactic resource for the psychopedagogical intervention of students with written language disorders (dyslexia-dysgraphia): a systematic review
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description: The present article analyzes the characteristics and alterations in students with dyslexia and dysgraphia as a neuropsychological disorder that affects written language and its impact on cognitive, academic, and socio-emotional areas. Its objective is to design a didactic resource aimed at teachers for the psychopedagogical intervention of schoolchildren with dyslexia and dysgraphia, considering that these disorders significantly affect students' quality of life. It proposes a qualitative approach methodology through a systematic review based on PRISMA criteria. The search included databases such as Scopus, SciELO, Google Scholar, Dialnet, and Redalyc, considering original studies on dyslexia and dysgraphia published between 2014 and 2024 in Spanish or English. Keywords such as “dyslexia and dysgraphia,” “intervention,” and “didactic resource” were used. The review confirms the need to train and guide teachers in effective intervention strategies. It describes the characteristics and needs of students with dyslexia and dysgraphia. The study highlights the etiology, classification, and prevalence of these disorders and their impact on students' quality of life. Based on these needs, the proposed didactic resource, "Tejiendo Palabras," represents a significant innovation in supporting students with these disorders. Its multisensory approach, the incorporation of technology, and the prominence of the neuropsychological and psycholinguistic approach ensure a comprehensive and effective educational intervention, fostering a more inclusive and equitable learning environment adapted to the specific psycho-affective needs of each student.
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creator: Licet De León
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Licet De León (Autor/a) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-09-24
publication date: 2025-09-24
starting page: 19
ending page: 34
doi: 10.35622/j.ro.2025.01.002

he guitar as a poetic symbol in Dominican bachata
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description: Bachata is a cultural and musical phenomenon that has undergone a significant transformation, evolving from a marginal genre to a symbol of national identity in the Dominican Republic. The objective of this research is to explore the meaning of the guitar and its role as a lyrical subject in the semantic construction of bachata. The study adopts a qualitative approach with a hermeneutic design. The main techniques include semiotic analysis of musical compositions and the use of an analytical guide to identify the function of musical time and its relationship to poetic content. A total of 24 representative bachata songs from various decades (1960–2020) were selected. The findings indicate that the guitar strings act as a lyrical subject capable of reinforcing the emotional message of the song. On average, 30% of the composition time is dedicated to instrumental segments where the guitar takes center stage. Moreover, the presence of the guitar is closely linked to the transmission of ancestral lyricism, reinforcing the identity and character of bachata. The study concludes that the guitar plays an essential role in bachata’s lyrical narrative, not only as an accompaniment but as a bearer of meaning that enriches poetic expression. This research highlights the cultural dimension of bachata, showing how the guitar consolidates a Caribbean musical language and opens pathways for exploring the relationship between music and meaning in Caribbean art.
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creator: Ibeth Guzman
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Ibeth Guzman (Autor/a) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-09-24
publication date: 2025-09-24
starting page: 35
ending page: 55
doi: 10.35622/j.ro.2025.01.003

Inferences in memes and digital news about politics: a multimodal comprehension test among costa rican university students
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description: When we encounter a political event, heated discussions are often generated on social media, which are complemented by memes and digital news. This highlights the need to explore how these texts are understood. The aim of this research is to describe the inferences made by students of Business Administration at the National University after exposure to these texts, using a test designed to assess inferences. A qualitative approach was applied, with an initial pilot, expert reviews, and the evaluation of 40 first- and fourth-year students through six stimuli (three memes and three digital news articles). The results revealed that memes generated more expected inferences (91.67% recognition of referents) compared to news articles (63.33%), as well as a higher identification of logical-semantic relationships in memes (82.5%) compared to news articles (30%). It was found that the focus on building optional inferences related to news was mainly verbal (94.7%), while in memes, most of the focus was on integration (59.10%), followed by the graphic mode (22.72%). Finally, the most common intentions were those specific to each genre. The paper concludes with recommendations for future research on multimodal texts.
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creator: Wendy Chavarría Ortiz
creator: Adrián Vergara Heidke
creator: Alejandro Cambronero
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Wendy Chavarría Ortiz, Adrián Vergara Heidke, Alejandro Cambronero (Autor/a) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2024-11-28
publication date: 2024-11-28
starting page: 25
ending page: 48
doi: 10.35622/j.ro.2024.04.002

Cognitivist analysis of the resultative semantics of phrasal verbs with chu (出 'out') in Chinese
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description: Being a satellite frame language, Chinese abounds in [verb + directional particle] constructions (V+DP). Semantically, V+DP expresses literal movement and resultative aspect, indicating the culmination of the event. When denoting resultative aspect, the amalgamation of the verb and the DP corresponds to the linguistic phenomenon of the phrasal verb (PV). The lexical meaning carried by a specific DP endows the resultative PV with unique meanings. This paper analyzes the semantic behavior of the resultative PV formed with chu (出 ‘out’), one of the most frequent DPs, from a cognitive approach. By analyzing data extracted from the BCC Corpus (BLCU Corpus Center), we have observed certain significant patterns. The results have shown that the semantic behavior of the resultative PV with chu (出 ‘out’) is suitable for representing the concept of ‘visibility’, motivated by the container image schema. This concept acts, first, as a source domain for figurative meanings such as ‘understand’. Secondly, it reflects in various specific interpretations linked to container metaphors. Therefore, it is concluded that the cognitive analysis allows us to distinguish the PV with chu (出 ‘out’) from the V+chu (出 ‘out’) grammatical constructions, establishing it as a consolidated lexical unit. This study provides a deeper understanding of the PV with chu (出 ‘out’) in Chinese and suggests future research in intercultural comparison and pedagogical applications in teaching Chinese as a foreign language.
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creator: Yuan Wang
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Yuan Wang (Autor/a) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2024-11-28
publication date: 2024-11-28
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doi: 10.35622/j.ro.2024.04.001

Shadows and lights of pedagogical translation
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description: The objective of this study is to support the use of translation in the teaching of foreign languages, with a particular emphasis on its usefulness as a valid tool in the teaching-learning process of a language. On many occasions, translation has been accused of being a method that hinders communicative competence; however, these pages argue that, as long as it is implemented appropriately, it can become a very valuable teaching tool. This article analyzes different applications of translation in the language classroom focused on vocabulary, grammar, and intercultural knowledge, among others. Likewise, it examines the challenges that teachers face when integrating translation practice into their teaching. In this line, the research highlights the benefits and pedagogical value of translation as an effective means of fostering both linguistic and cultural connection in the process of learning a foreign language, although it also recommends a balanced and moderate use of translation work.
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creator: Alfonso Corbacho-Sánchez
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Alfonso Corbacho-Sánchez (Autor/a) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2024-12-30
publication date: 2024-12-30
starting page: 49
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doi: 10.35622/j.ro.2024.04.003

constructional approach to the resultative semantics of the v+shang (上‘up’) construction in chinese
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description: Chinese, as a satellite-framed language, frequently and systematically uses the [verb + directional particle] (V+DP) construction to describe movement and resultative aspect by analogy, indicating the realization of the denoted event. Due to the lexical meaning carried by DPs, when indicating the realization of the event, the V+DP is characterized by having both literal and figurative meanings. Shang (上 ‘up’) is one of the most frequently used DPs to merge with verbs, forming new lexical units with a unitary meaning. This work focuses on the V+shang (上 ‘up’) construction with the aim of analyzing its resultative meaning from a constructionist perspective, highlighting its figurative uses. Based on real data extracted from the BCC (BLCU Corpus Center) corpus, this study examines the schematic resultative meaning of V+shang (上 ‘up’) from a constructionist viewpoint, positioning the various instances of this construction along the lexico-grammatical continuum. The results reveal that V+shang (上 ‘up’) presents two main resultative uses, which can be summarized as ‘more’ and ‘good’, underlying the metaphors MORE IS UP and GOOD IS UP, respectively. This study concludes that the V+shang (上 ‘up’) construction not only decodes physical and literal displacement but also functions metaphorically to describe the completion of the denoted event, explicitly indicating the result of that event in a metaphorical manner.
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creator: Yuan Wang
creator: Antxon Álvarez
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Yuan Wang, Antxon Álvarez (Autor/a) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2024-09-30
publication date: 2024-09-30
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doi: 10.35622/j.ro.2024.03.001

The translation of Chinese dish names into Spanish from the perspective of semantic and communicative translation
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description: The lack of accurate translation for the names of Chinese dishes hinders the dissemination of their cuisine in the Spanish-speaking world. This issue prevents diners from fully connecting with the flavors and cultural richness of Chinese cuisine, limiting their understanding and appreciation. This study is based on Peter Newmark's theories of communicative and semantic translation, aiming to identify the main challenges in translating Chinese dish names into Spanish and how to resolve this issue. Problems such as literal translation without clear criteria, the absence of a uniform standard, and the poor handling of the cultural content implicit in dish names were identified. The study proposed applying principles of pragmatism and balancing aesthetics and cultural content in the translation of dish names. Furthermore, four translation methods were recommended for Chinese dishes of various types and characteristics: transliteration, equivalence, semantic translation, and communicative translation, aiming to provide feasible principles and methods for translating Chinese dishes into Spanish.
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creator: Lu Feng
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Lu Feng (Autor/a) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2024-09-30
publication date: 2024-09-30
starting page: 29
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doi: 10.35622/j.ro.2024.03.002

Information load and discourse anaphora: a comparison between Spanish and mandarin Chinese
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description: The referential nature of noun phrases is a subject that has been widely discussed in linguistic circles, an issue that is also controversial. This paper analyzes the information load and discourse anaphora using the competition approach and makes a comparison between Spanish and Mandarin. The cross-language comparison confirms that although there are some differences in referential forms, nominal syntagma with incomplete description is often anaphoric in the two languages, because they are expressions with less information and are more dependent on context. In discourse anaphora, people have a natural preference for these less burdened expressions because they can restore the attributes contained in the referents in a more economical way.
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creator: Yufei Cao
creator: Yiwen Ding
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Yufei Cao, Yiwen Ding (Autor/a) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2024-06-17
publication date: 2024-06-17
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The comparison of animal figures in Chinese and Spanish proverbs: the case of bovine livestock
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description: Proverbs are one of the most representative expressions of a country or nation's language and culture. Both in China and Spain, there is a large number of proverbs related to animals, and bovine livestock possesses a special and important meaning in both cultures. Therefore, starting from the theoretical framework of cultural linguistics and linguaculture, and employing the method of comparative analysis, this work aims to construct a corpus of Chinese and Spanish proverbs about bovine livestock and carry out a contrastive analysis. The objective is to reveal the similarities and differences between the images of bovine livestock in the proverbs and cultures of both countries, as well as to better understand the differences between the peoples of China and Spain in terms of their life habits, ways of thinking, and ideologies. By deepening the knowledge of the image of bovine livestock in the proverbs of both nations, we hope to facilitate and increasingly enrich intercultural communications between China and Spain.
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creator: Shiyang Liu
creator: Xingwang Dong
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Shiyang Liu, Xingwang Dong (Autor/a) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2024-06-22
publication date: 2024-06-22
starting page: 23
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Identity, memory, and truth in 'Tantas voces, una historia' by Eleonora María Smolensky and Vera Vigevani Jarach
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description: This work examines the construction of identity and the assimilation process of Italian immigrant families in Argentina between 1938 and 1948, as presented in "Tantas Voces, una Historia" by Eleonora María Smolensky and Vera Vigevani Jarach (1999). Focusing on Chapter II, "La Adaptación según la Edad: los Testimonios", it analyzes how testimonial narratives, especially those of immigrant children and youth, use memory as a literary tool to influence adaptation to the new country and the formation of the collective identity of Italian Jews in Argentina. We explore the exemplary function of testimony, the relationship between memory and identity, and its role in filling historical gaps. We adapt a methodology of analysis of judgments to former commanders in Argentina to study these testimonies. This analysis highlights the importance of these narratives in preserving collective memory and their contribution to understanding the experience of Italian immigrant families in Argentina.
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creator: Erika Nicolau
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Erika Nicolau (Autor/a) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2024-03-20
publication date: 2024-03-20
starting page: 28
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“Quiero ser negro”: black identity from the perspective of being and appearing
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description: “Quiero ser negro” is an act of will or a project, the trajectory from one identity (A) towards another (B). As a discourse, it's the personal narrative of two young Spaniards aspiring to blackness. It also appears as a self-fiction focused on identity tourism or the process of psychological alienation, rooted in social subjectivities. Therefore, the ontological nature of identity doesn't exclude mutations, nor does it escape the construction process, essentially being a continuum.
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creator: Zacharie Hatolong-Boho
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Zacharie Hatolong-Boho (Autor/a) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2024-03-19
publication date: 2024-03-19
starting page: 7
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Song "Mexico lindo y querido" by Jesús Monge Ramírez, through discourse analysis
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description: The lyrics of the song 'México, lindo y querido' represent the love, beauty and pride that Mexicans feel for their culture and identity, which allows them to show a happy population of their roots, due to the cultural and emotional level of a population. In order to understand the meaning of this song, an analysis of the literary discourse was carried out, addressing its enunciative, semiotic and pragmatic dimensions. The methodological design used was hermeneutics, guided by the interpretation model proposed by Núñez (2019). The results reveal a deep expression of love towards the country of origin, as well as the transmission of values ​​related to peace and equality. It evokes a strong sense of belonging and pride. In conclusion, the song reflects the shared desire of Mexican families to preserve their roots as an invaluable legacy.
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creator: Fernando Cerón-Martínez
creator: Irma Baldovinos-Leyva
rights: Copyright (c) 2023 Fernando Cerón-Martínez, Irma Baldovinos-Leyva https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2023-07-01
publication date: 2023-07-01
starting page: 7
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The poem "¡dolor, dolor!, eterna vida mía" by José Martí through discourse analysis
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description: The poems of José Julián Martí Pérez, popularly known as José Martí, demonstrate his poetic, philosophical and political side. Therefore, the objective of this work was to critically analyze and interpret the poem "pain, pain! my eternal life" by the aforementioned author. The methodological design used was hermeneutics. In the interpretation technique, the Discourse Analysis model was applied, for which the following categories of analysis were taken into account: a) textual dimension, b) enunciative, c) semiotic and d) pragmatic. The results show the possibility of reflection that the human being has, with the possibility of aspiring to improvement in life, despite the misfortunes due to life circumstances. It is concluded that the poem reflects how in the circumstantial feeling an introspection can be made in life, and the capacity of the human being, to understand, interpret and manage nature, as well as its phenomena, regardless of the social context.
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creator: Martín Zavala-Núñez
creator: María García
creator: Saraí Soto-Gallardo
rights: Copyright (c) 2023 Martín Zavala-Núñez, María García, Saraí Soto-Gallardo https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2023-08-01
publication date: 2023-08-01
starting page: 36
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The poem "La Calle" by Octavio Paz through discourse analysis
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description: Octavio Paz's poetry manages to capture the human essence and goes further, dazzling with its beauty and depth. In this context, the purpose of this research was to carry out a critical analysis of the poem "La Calle" by the aforementioned poet. For this purpose, the hermeneutic approach was used as a methodological design and as an interpretation technique the discourse analysis model was applied, covering its textual, enunciative, semiotic and pragmatic dimensions. It is concluded that the poem "La Calle" reflects the atmosphere and environment of a society impacted by a social event, where the street becomes a mysterious and lonely scene, where dreams are intertwined with a reality, where it evokes a sensation of the time stopped in the immediate past.
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creator: Jaime Parra-Arredondo
rights: Copyright (c) 2023 Jaime Parra-Arredondo https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2023-07-10
publication date: 2023-07-10
starting page: 20
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Discourse analysis of the song: "Jueves" by the Spanish band La Oreja de Van Gogh
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description: This article presents the analysis of the song "Jueves," authored by the Spanish band La Oreja de Van Gogh. It was inspired by the personal diary of a young woman, which was found by rescue personnel after the March 11, 2004 terrorist attacks in Madrid. The methodology used is qualitative in nature, applying the hermeneutics of discourse analysis, examining the text in its textual, enunciative, semiotic, and pragmatic dimensions. The results depict a lyrical subject with low self-esteem, which is based on established social standards. The text employs metaphors that convey a message of liberation and the opening of new experiences. The conclusion of this analysis deduces the significance of self-perception in decision-making and actions.
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creator: Lissette Hernández-Agatón
rights: Copyright (c) 2023 Lissette Hernández Agatón https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2023-08-01
publication date: 2023-08-01
starting page: 50
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doi: 10.35622/j.ro.2023.03.004

Discursive analysis of the song “Bandera Blanca” by Camila
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description: This article examines the song "Bandera Blanca" by the group "Camila" from a hermeneutic and discursive perspective. The importance of music in various fields is highlighted, such as recreational, creative, emotional, cultural and psychological, since over the years it has been used and interpreted in multiple ways. The combination of rhythms and lyrics is used to convey messages and emotions. Therefore, considering this relevance, the symbolism of the song and the relationship it establishes between a courtship and a chaotic situation that leads to surrender are analyzed from a perspective generated by discursive analysis through hermeneutics, where each away from the song, interpreting and analyzing from its literal, symbolic and emotional phases, as well as the enunciative, locutive, perlocutive and hyperlocutive phases. The analysis concludes that the letter shows the narrator's struggle to find stability and love in the midst of adversity, but finally reaches a point of surrender and acceptance of personal limitations; while at a theoretical level the importance of music is identified personally, in development, economics and different dimensions.
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creator: Erick García-Serna
rights: Copyright (c) 2023 Erick García-Serna https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2023-08-07
publication date: 2023-08-07
starting page: 69
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Interpretation of 'Tití me Preguntó' by Bad Bunny through discourse analysis
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description: The song "Tití me preguntó", written and performed by Bad Bunny®, one of the greatest exponents of reggaeton, is analyzed using the Discourse Analysis Model. This qualitative approach is based on four categories of analysis: textual, enunciative, semiotic and pragmatic. The results explore aspects such as textual content, identifying actors and their voices in the discourse structure. The articulations and coherence of the song are also analyzed, along with the diverse meanings of each phrase and the communicative intention of the singer-songwriter towards the listener audience. The conclusions reveal a discourse loaded with "machismo" and devaluation of women, where their voice is silenced. In addition, a contradiction is observed in the story, while the dominant “macho” is exalted, he also assumes a victim position, seeking the empathy of the public with respect to his way of being and acting in the story of the song.
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creator: Felipe Covarrubias-Melgar
creator: Mariana Martínez-Castrejón
creator: Cristiana Verónica-Gasga
rights: Copyright (c) 2023 Felipe Covarrubias-Melgar, Mariana Martínez-Castrejón, Cristiana Verónica-Gasga https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2023-08-21
publication date: 2023-08-21
starting page: 86
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doi: 10.35622/j.ro.2023.03.006