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{"title":"Personajes masculinos que cuestionan los estereotipos de género y nuevas multialfabetizaciones en los libros álbum: una mirada sistémico-funcional y semiótico-social","authors":"Roberto Martínez Mateo","doi":"10.26754/OJS_MISC/MJ.20205141","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26754/OJS_MISC/MJ.20205141","url":null,"abstract":"espanolEl objetivo de este trabajo es identificar, en dos libros album donde los personajes principales cuestionan los estereotipos tradicionales de genero masculinos, los recursos verbales y visuales utilizados por el/la autor/a y los ilustradores para estudiar sus sinergias en la construccion del mensaje global en el plano representacional. Mediante un analisis multimodal desde la Linguistica Sistemica Funcional de Halliday (2004) y la Semiotica Social Visual de Kress y van Leeuwen (2006), se identifican las elecciones en el modo verbal y visual adoptadas en cada texto de la muestra y luego se analiza su interaccion. Mayoritariamente, ambos modos se complementan para elaborar un mensaje comun, aunque, en ocasiones, el peso del modo visual supera al textual en la construccion del significado debido a la complejidad de las imagenes (procesos visuales de accion y reaccion, con procesos verbales y mentales). Por ello, es fundamental que los jovenes reciban instruccion sobre las alfabetizaciones multiples en la Educacion Primaria. EnglishThe purpose of this work is to identify, in two picture books where the main characters challenge traditional male stereotypes, the verbal and visual resources used by authors and illustrators to study their synergies in the construction of the global message at the representational level. Through a multimodal analysis fromHalliday’s Functional Systemic Linguistics (2004) and Kress and van Leeuwen’s Social Visual Semiotics (2006), I identify the choices in verbal and visual modes adopted in each of the sample texts and then I analyze their interaction.Mostly, both modes complement each other to elaborate a common message, although the visual mode sometimes outweighs the textual one in the construction of meaning due to the complexity of the images (which combine visual processes of action and reaction with verbal and mental processes). Therefore, it is essential that young people receive instruction on the concept of multiple literacies in Primary Education.","PeriodicalId":35132,"journal":{"name":"Miscelanea","volume":"61 1","pages":"99-122"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43370726","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}

{"title":"\"Overpoliced and Underprotected\": Racialized Gendered Violence(s) in Ta-Nehisi Coates's Between the World and Me","authors":"E. Ureña","doi":"10.26754/OJS_MISC/MJ.20205149","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26754/OJS_MISC/MJ.20205149","url":null,"abstract":"Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Between the World and Me (2015) evidences the lack of visibility of black women in discourses on racial profiling. Far from tracing a complete representation of the dimensions of racism, Coates presents a  masculinized portrayal of its victims, relegating black women to liminal positions even though they are one of  the most overpoliced groups in US society, and disregarding the fact that they are also subject to other forms of harassment, such as sexual fondling and other forms of abusive frisking. In the face of this situation, many  women have struggled, both from an academic and a political-activist angle, to raise the visibility of the role of black women in contemporary discourses on racism.","PeriodicalId":35132,"journal":{"name":"Miscelanea","volume":"62 1","pages":"13-28"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47345089","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}

{"title":"\"At Least I Have the Flowers of Myself\": Revisionist Myth-Making in H.D.'s \"Eurydice\"","authors":"Cristina Salcedo González","doi":"10.26754/OJS_MISC/MJ.20205152","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26754/OJS_MISC/MJ.20205152","url":null,"abstract":"Taking its cue from the rediscovery of H.D.’s works initiated in the 1980s, this article aims to advance the efforts destined to recover the modernist poet’s revisionist legacy and, in particular, her revisionary myth-making. To this end, adopting a myth-criticism interpretative approach, I will analyse one of the most relevant examples of H.D.’s work in this respect: her lyric poem “Eurydice” (1925). In particular, I will examine H.D.’s ‘tactics of revisionary mythopoesis’, that is, narrative strategies which distance her poem from the dominant account of the myth and that enable the poet to contest the established classical tradition. The examination will ultimately bring to the surface H.D.’s invaluable contribution to the re-shaping and re-writing of myth from a female perspective and the way in which she created a different, subverted, version of the classical account.","PeriodicalId":35132,"journal":{"name":"Miscelanea","volume":"62 1","pages":"69-89"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42910160","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}

{"title":"Punctuation Practice in Early Modern English Scientific Writing: The Case of MS 3009 at the Wellcome Library, London","authors":"Miriam Criado-Peña","doi":"10.26754/OJS_MISC/MJ.20205140","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26754/OJS_MISC/MJ.20205140","url":null,"abstract":"The study of punctuation has traditionally been overlooked by some scholars for being considered haphazard and unpredictable. In medieval manuscripts, every scribe was free to use their own repertory of symbols. However, the establishment of the printing press along with the proliferation of professional scriveners resulted in a process of standardization of the system in such a way that by the end of the 16th century a repertory of punctuation symbols was fully developed (Salmon 1999: 15; Calle-Martin 2019: 179-200). The present study seeks to examine the punctuation system of a 17th-century recipe book housed in the Wellcome Library in London, MS Wellcome 3009. This paper has therefore been conceived with a twofold objective: a) to assess the inventory of punctuation marks in the text; and b) to analyze the use and pragmatic functions of these symbols.","PeriodicalId":35132,"journal":{"name":"Miscelanea","volume":"61 1","pages":"81-97"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45991086","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}

{"title":"Acculturation through Code-Switching Linguistic Analysis in Three Short-Stories: “Invierno”, “Nilda” and “The Pura Principle” (Díaz 2012)","authors":"María Jesús Santos Sánchez, Elisa Pérez-García","doi":"10.26754/OJS_MISC/MJ.20205139","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26754/OJS_MISC/MJ.20205139","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this article is to investigate whether Yunior, a character and narrator in the three short stories under study, “Invierno”, “The Pura Principle”, and “Nilda”, becomes absorbed into American culture or obtains a positive relationship with this culture without losing his Dominican identity. Quantitative analyses of the vocabulary in the L1 code-switches (Spanish) and of the L2 (English) vocabulary used by Yunior in the stories were carried out to appraise his linguistic progression. Code-switching was analyzed because it gives insights into how situation and context influences language use and why the characters use the language they do. The results obtained, by means of three common lexical measures used in foreign language research (lexical density, age of acquisition and lexical sophistication), allowed us to assess Yunior’s change of identity. According to the acculturation model, Yunior becomes acculturated in the host country, showing progression and integration with many cultural aspects of American life and the English language due to his formal education and early age of acquisition of L2.","PeriodicalId":35132,"journal":{"name":"Miscelanea","volume":"61 1","pages":"59-79"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42615908","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}

{"title":"Transgressing Geographical and Gender Borders: A Study of Alternative Manhoods in Yosemite’s Climbing History","authors":"L. Martínez-García","doi":"10.26754/OJS_MISC/MJ.20205151","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26754/OJS_MISC/MJ.20205151","url":null,"abstract":"The last few years have been eventful as far as mountaineering in Yosemite is concerned with the soloing of el Cap and the freeing of the Dawn Wall. The documentary film Valley Uprising: Yosemite’s Rock Climbing Revolution (Mortimer et al. 2014) not only traces the history of climbing in the Park but offers a more profound analysis of the evolution of society and gender roles in America in the last half-century, showing that, although the Valley is fairly isolated from urban communities, it is by no means disconnected from the ideological, political and cultural revolutions that the country has lived through. Yosemite is, in actual fact, a  liminal space where gender roles and identities are contested, contracted and re-formulated. This article analyses three differing climbing styles that have dominated Yosemite in the 20th century, to prove that they overstep the physical borders of the territory and that each becomes paradigmatic of the dissenting masculinities that have continuously threatened the establishment outside the geographical limits of the  Park. This genealogy of the particular masculinities of each group allows us to see that these manhoods —perceived as deviant or dissenting outside the Park— were, for insiders, the normative modes of being a man.","PeriodicalId":35132,"journal":{"name":"Miscelanea","volume":"62 1","pages":"49-68"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41559695","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}

{"title":"Elegies and Genealogies of Place: Spatial Belonging in the Italian/American Culture and Literature","authors":"Eva Pelayo Sañudo","doi":"10.26754/OJS_MISC/MJ.20205155","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26754/OJS_MISC/MJ.20205155","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines the poetics and politics of place in Italian/American culture and in Tina De Rosa’s novel Paper Fish (1980), particularly its portrayal of ‘elegies and genealogies of place’, an appropriate framework through which to read the importance of spatial belonging. It investigates the way in which cultural identity is mostly built on both imagined communities and imagined places, as is common in migrant and diasporic cultures, through the evocation or creation of ancestors and the homeland. In addition, the Italian/American community leaves the characteristic Little Italy enclaves or undergoes displacement due to urban renewal projects and the move to the suburbs in the mid-twentieth century, which is sometimes compared to a second migration or diaspora. As a consequence, former urban enclaves come to assume a centrality as lostsanctuaries, which is captured in the trope of the Old Neighbourhood. The article contributes to existing contemporary research on the binomial placeidentity by tracing how key events of US urban history impacted on Italian/American culture. Furthermore, the goal is to offer new critical readings of Paper Fish through the focus on place-making.","PeriodicalId":35132,"journal":{"name":"Miscelanea","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48270314","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}

{"title":"Copula Deletion in San Andresan Creole","authors":"Cristina Suárez‐Gómez, Margarita María Chamorro-Díaz","doi":"10.26754/OJS_MISC/MJ.20205137","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26754/OJS_MISC/MJ.20205137","url":null,"abstract":"espanolEste articulo versa sobre el fenomeno de elision de la copula verbal en criollo sanandresano, una lengua criolla de base lexica inglesa hablada en las islas caribenas de Colombia. Uno de los fenomenos linguisticos mas estudiados en lenguas criollas del Caribe es la variacion en el uso del verbo be (vease Labov 1969; Holm 1976; Rickford 1996; Sharma y Rickford 2009; Michaelis et al. 2013, etc.). El objetivo de este trabajo es arrojar luz sobre los factores que condicionan la variacion del sistema copulativo en criollo sanandresano. Para llevar esto a cabo analizamos los contextos en los que se usa be de forma explicita (por ejemplo, dei waz der an di fishin graun ‘they were there at the fishing ground’) y aquellos en los que se elide (e.g. shi veri hongri ‘she (was) very hungry’), y prestamos atencion a su distribucion teniendo en cuenta variables estructurales tales como el contexto gramatical en el que se usa o elide be, la categoria y persona gramatical del sujeto, y el tiempo verbal. El analisis probabilistico de los resultados muestra que el contexto y la categoria gramatical del sujeto determinan la variacion de este fenomeno linguistico, confirmando asi un patro n de variacion observado en otras lenguas criollas del Atlantico. Los resultados obtenidos en este estudio nos permiten obtener una descripcion mas completa del uso de be en criollo sanandresano al tiempo que nos ofrecen informacion valiosa sobre la vitalidad, unidad y heterogeneidad de esta lengua criolla. EnglishThis paper deals with copula deletion in San Andresan Creole (SAC), an English-lexifier creole spoken in the Caribbean islands of Colombia. One of the most widely studied features of Caribbean creoles is the variable use of the verb be (see Labov 1969; Holm 1976; Rickford 1996; Sharma and Rickford 2009; Michaelis et al. 2013, etc.). We aim to establish the linguistic and social determinants of observable variation in the copula system of SAC. To this end we will look primarily into be presence (e.g. dei waz der an di fishin graun ‘they were there at the fishing ground’) vs be deletion (e.g. shi veri hongri ‘she (was) very hungry’), and its distribution according to structural variables (e.g. grammatical context, grammatical category and grammatical person of the subject, and tense). The probabilistic analysis of the results shows that grammatical context and grammatical category of the subject determine variation in this domain of grammar, repeating a recurrent pattern shown by other Atlantic creoles. These findings provide a more complete picture of variation in the use of be in SAC and offer valuable evidence regarding the vitality, unity and heterogeneity of this creole.","PeriodicalId":35132,"journal":{"name":"Miscelanea","volume":"61 1","pages":"13-32"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49249392","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}

{"title":"Defying Absolutes and Essentialism in Derek Walcott’s Omeros: An Epic of Traces","authors":"M. Jiménez","doi":"10.26754/OJS_MISC/MJ.20205150","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26754/OJS_MISC/MJ.20205150","url":null,"abstract":"Using poststructuralist and postmodern theory, this article analyses the postcolonial epic poem Omeros (1990) by the author Derek Walcott. In using such a genre, Derek Walcott opens up a discussion on the literary canon and the role of epics. The authority of canonical genres is established through the use of some of the epic’s formal conventions in order to be subsequently questioned through the subversion of some others relating to register and perspective. In this way, Walcott establishes a poststructuralist approach to identity which is perceived as fluid, heterogeneous, and subject to transformations. The intertextuality and parody at work in the text bring to light postmodern concerns about history and the past, which are presented as non-absolute traces. In the end, the epic recovery of roots becomes in this poem an invocation of anti-essentialism.","PeriodicalId":35132,"journal":{"name":"Miscelanea","volume":"62 1","pages":"29-47"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44771895","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}

{"title":"The Literary Politics of Scottish Devolution: Voice, Class, Nation, by Scott Hames","authors":"P. Martin","doi":"10.26754/OJS_MISC/MJ.20205158","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26754/OJS_MISC/MJ.20205158","url":null,"abstract":". ","PeriodicalId":35132,"journal":{"name":"Miscelanea","volume":"62 1","pages":"189-194"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42058880","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}