Verba HispanicaPub Date : 2019-01-18DOI: 10.4312/vh.26.1.249-265
A. Jovanovic
{"title":"Standardizing Differences? Standards for Intercultural Competence in Formal Education","authors":"A. Jovanovic","doi":"10.4312/vh.26.1.249-265","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4312/vh.26.1.249-265","url":null,"abstract":"The importance intercultural communicative competence plays in contemporary education of foreign languages has provided the latter with an approach that is frequently termed intercultural education. Nevertheless, the topic is still quite controversial, to say the least, and especially so in respect to issues related with the evaluation of intercultural communicative competence. In addition to the difficulties of defining the concept and criteria for its evaluation, we need to address the fundamental question of whether it is possible to evaluate intercultural competence at all, and, if this is the case, whether it is moral to do so. Here we explore the case of Serbia and a project whose goal was to define the standards of competence for foreign languages in formal primary education. As a member of the working group, and thus with the privilege of an insider’s perspective, I analyse the steps that were followed in the development of the standards for intercultural competence. This auto-ethnographic exposition aims at offering a critical analysis of intercultural competence in the curricular documents of foreign languages, but also at providing a space for reflection and self-evaluation.","PeriodicalId":30803,"journal":{"name":"Verba Hispanica","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47828802","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Verba HispanicaPub Date : 2019-01-18DOI: 10.4312/VH.26.1.233-246
Mojca Medvedšek, Blažka Müller Pograjc
{"title":"Semantic and Pragmatic Analysis of the Future Tense in the Tragedy A Castro","authors":"Mojca Medvedšek, Blažka Müller Pograjc","doi":"10.4312/VH.26.1.233-246","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4312/VH.26.1.233-246","url":null,"abstract":"This article aims to present the characteristics and functioning of the illocutionary acts in the tragedy A Castro by António Ferreira (1528-1569), which are marked as a series of decisions, expressed as predictions of the speaker (the protagonist, Pedro Infante) belonging to the sphere of the future. This future is known, historically proven and represents one of the most astonishing chapters of Portuguese history as well as of literary production. The study focuses on the final monologue of the Act V of the tragedy, which presents a strong dramatic potential, analysing the two sequences of the monologue and highlighting different types of illocutionary acts (Searle, 1979; Gouveia, 1996; Atienza, 2005). The authors pay special attention to the relation of the speaker towards the propositional content and the pragmatic features of the linguistic means, used to persuade the receiver that the speaker’s intentions are firm, certain, and orientated to the future, although not realized within the dramatic time of tragedy.","PeriodicalId":30803,"journal":{"name":"Verba Hispanica","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41623623","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Verba HispanicaPub Date : 2019-01-18DOI: 10.4312/VH.26.1.276-279
Gemma Santiago Alonso
{"title":"El serbio, una muestra para lenguas sin artículo determinado","authors":"Gemma Santiago Alonso","doi":"10.4312/VH.26.1.276-279","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4312/VH.26.1.276-279","url":null,"abstract":"La monografía El serbio, una muestra para lenguas sin artículo determinado, publicada en la editorial Studio strugar editores, supone una valiosa contribución para el procesamiento del artículo en español para aprendientes cuya lengua materna no cuenta con artículo y para la enseñanza/aprendizaje del artículo en español como lengua extranjera en tanto que identifica y describe los usos del artículo de español más complejos de adquirir. Este libro está especialmente dirigido a profesores y estudiantes de lenguas extranjeras, ya que responde al reto que supone la enseñanza/aprendizaje de una forma gramatical como es el artículo en nativos que carecen de esta marca gramatical.","PeriodicalId":30803,"journal":{"name":"Verba Hispanica","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42954617","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Verba HispanicaPub Date : 2019-01-18DOI: 10.4312/VH.26.1.15-33
M. V. Escandell-Vidal
{"title":"Simple Future of Spanish. Natural System Versus Cultivated Uses","authors":"M. V. Escandell-Vidal","doi":"10.4312/VH.26.1.15-33","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4312/VH.26.1.15-33","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of this paper is to show that the attested diversity of interpretations of the Spanish simple future does not result from an inherent polysemy, but rather from the coexistence of two different systems being “visible” at the same time: an active, fully productive system (natural system), and a set of non-active uses, which survive from an ancient system no longer in force (cultivated uses). To this end, the paper examines data from first language acquisition patterns, frequency, distributional restrictions, range of usage, and interpretation routes. The distinction suggested is a crucial requirement for a monosemic approach to the semantics of the Spanish simple future cast in evidential terms – one that can make evident its internal logic and synchronic properties.","PeriodicalId":30803,"journal":{"name":"Verba Hispanica","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42866394","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Verba HispanicaPub Date : 2019-01-18DOI: 10.4312/VH.26.1.57-78
Nuria Campos Carrasco
{"title":"Courtesy and Degree of Strength in a Realization of Face-Threatening Acts in Spanish","authors":"Nuria Campos Carrasco","doi":"10.4312/VH.26.1.57-78","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4312/VH.26.1.57-78","url":null,"abstract":"The determination of the types of speech acts that can be executed in relation to different languages has been studied inside and outside the boundaries of Spanish. There have been many attempts to realize taxonomies of speech acts connected to basic schemes of expression, and these attempts of classification and structure determination are normally focused on lists of verbs without providing the main structures that languages use to express speech acts. In the development of this work we will propose tools to clearly show what is meant by speech act and by its types and, finally, we will provide a taxonomy of general structures for the expression of illocutionary directive acts of speech in Spanish.","PeriodicalId":30803,"journal":{"name":"Verba Hispanica","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49442361","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Verba HispanicaPub Date : 2019-01-18DOI: 10.4312/VH.26.1.165-192
Vita Veselko
{"title":"The Focus in Spanish Language: Definition Problems and Syntactic Manifestations","authors":"Vita Veselko","doi":"10.4312/VH.26.1.165-192","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4312/VH.26.1.165-192","url":null,"abstract":"The field of information structure, a meeting point of pragmatics with the traditional linguistic disciplines, is nowadays facing many terminological inconsistencies which hinder its theoretical consolidation, and the resulting practical application of its analytical models to concrete linguistic manifestations. The present article aims to revise the different conceptions of one of the central terms of this linguistic discipline, the focus, to contribute to its terminological elucidation. After presenting the existing definitions of focus as a pragmatic function, the author proceeds to analyse the information structure of its syntactic manifestations in concrete communicative situations in an attempt to determine how the assignment of this pragmatic function is conditioned by the degree of newness of the information, and what its relationship with the notion of contrast is. The study thus concludes with an outline proposal of a possible redefinition of the term and its main distinctive features.","PeriodicalId":30803,"journal":{"name":"Verba Hispanica","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43178633","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Verba HispanicaPub Date : 2019-01-18DOI: 10.4312/VH.26.1.79-98
Rosa Martín Gascueña
{"title":"The Use of Politeness at the Beginning and End of Acceptance Speeches for the Cervantes Prize","authors":"Rosa Martín Gascueña","doi":"10.4312/VH.26.1.79-98","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4312/VH.26.1.79-98","url":null,"abstract":"This study focuses on the politeness used in the acceptance speeches of all winners of the Cervantes Prize, since its origins in 1976 until 2017. The objective is to carry out a quantitative and qualitative study to verify if the use of the forms of politeness at the beginning and end of these acceptance discourses is related to some sociolinguistic variables, such as the origin of the author, sex, and ideology, and if diachronic changes have taken place. The research methodology is based on three notions: discourse, courtesy and gender. We start from a pragmatic and interactive approach to discourse, conceived as a linguistic cognitive process and as a social linguistic product (Van Dijk 2012). Regarding politeness from a functional point of view is an individual and group identity strategy, which highlights the social image of a person and reinforces the individual one (Bravo 2004), it is also the backbone of these discourses. They respond to a prototypical model (Bajtin, 1982) of protocolar discourse, written to be read in front of an institutional audience that recognizes its literary and professional value. All these discourses have in common semantic-pragmatic characteristics, although the fact of being elaborated by masters of the language and literature of Spain and Latin America makes them personal, original and unique.","PeriodicalId":30803,"journal":{"name":"Verba Hispanica","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47348583","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Verba HispanicaPub Date : 2019-01-18DOI: 10.4312/VH.26.1.193-209
A. Zieliński
{"title":"Cognición y sociedad : los tratamientos en los albores del feudalismo : \"señor\" y las fórmulas honoríficas con \"-ísimo\"","authors":"A. Zieliński","doi":"10.4312/VH.26.1.193-209","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4312/VH.26.1.193-209","url":null,"abstract":"espanol Gracias a los avances en la semantica cognitiva, los filologos disponemos de las herramientas necesarias para comprobar que la categorizacion del mundo en clases de objetos (sustantivos), propiedades (adjetivos) o eventos, actividades y procesos (verbos) ayuda a los miembros de una comunidad linguistica a organizar en el seno de su propia cultura no solo el mundo, sino tambien su percepcion y conocimiento. Slovenscina Studija se poglobi v izvor dveh ogovornih formul: naslova senor, iz senior ‘starejsi’, in formul s presežnisko pripono -isimo, ki sta tesno povezani z vzpostavitvijo fevdalizma, novega družbenega modela, za katerega je znacilna vertikalna družbena ureditev, ki sovpada s kolicinsko lestvico, lastno stopnjevalnim oblikam. Obe ogovorni formuli se ravnata po konceptualni metafori vec je zgoraj. English The objective of this study is to delve into the origin of two treatment formulas: senor, from senior “older”, and those with the superlative suffix. Both are very closely linked to the imposition of a new social model, feudalism, which is characterized by organizing itself on a vertical social scale, coinciding with the scale of quantification characteristic of degree expressions. In both acts the conceptual metaphor is more is up.","PeriodicalId":30803,"journal":{"name":"Verba Hispanica","volume":"26 1","pages":"193-209"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43346240","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Verba HispanicaPub Date : 2019-01-01DOI: 10.4312/VH.26.1.269-271
Jasmina Markič
{"title":"Diccionario de colombianismos","authors":"Jasmina Markič","doi":"10.4312/VH.26.1.269-271","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4312/VH.26.1.269-271","url":null,"abstract":"En abril de 2018 el Instituto Caro y Cuervo, con el apoyo de la Academia Colombiana de la Lengua y del Ministerio de Cultura de Colombia, publica 3000 ejemplares de un ejemplar diccionario de colombianismos titulado Diccionario de Colombianismos (Dicol), que actualmente cuenta ya con una segunda edición. Esta obra continúa la larga y rica tradición lexicográfica del Instituto Caro y Cuervo (ICC) de Bogotá representada por el monumental Diccionario de construcción y régimen de la lengua castellana (1872-1998) iniciado por Rufino José Cuervo y concluido por el ICC, el Atlas Lingüístico-Etnográfico de Colombia (ALEC) (1981-1983), el Nuevo Diccionario de Colombianismos (1993) de Günter Haensch y Reinhold Werner y la labor de numerosos investigadores del Instituto Caro y Cuervo y egresados del seminario Andrés Bello. La realización del diccionario que se llevó a cabo entre 2015 y 2017 fue liderada por las investigadoras en el campo de la lingüística Nancy Rozo Melo (Coordinadora del ICC) y María Clara Henríquez Guarín (Coordinadora Académica).","PeriodicalId":30803,"journal":{"name":"Verba Hispanica","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70589006","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Verba HispanicaPub Date : 2017-12-08DOI: 10.4312/VH.25.1.183-196
Dóra Bakucz
{"title":"\"Esbozos, de capítulos posibles, a lo sumo\": traición y reescritura en dos novelas argentinas con colofón de un escritor húngaro","authors":"Dóra Bakucz","doi":"10.4312/VH.25.1.183-196","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4312/VH.25.1.183-196","url":null,"abstract":"The paper proposes an interdisciplinary and intercultural analysis by comparing two Argentine novels, Liliana Heker’s The End of the Story, and Leopoldo Brizuela’s The Same Night, by. Starting from a psychoanalytic investigation on how language is affected by traumatic experiences, we study the consequences and possible ways of textualizing the process of assimilating or elaborating experiences connected to the Dirty War in Argentina in both cases. If we consider narration in the third person by an omniscient narrator as the classic form of narration, a particularly unorthodox form would be that of the Hungarian Nobel Prize winner, Imre Kertesz, in his last book where he explore the possibility and impossibility of reflecting our reality and sets about writing the story of a novel that he cannot be written as a last protest against those forces that have taken away not only his fate but also that of many others.","PeriodicalId":30803,"journal":{"name":"Verba Hispanica","volume":"25 1","pages":"183-196"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41429376","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}