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The aim of this paper is the study of the manner how the Cyclops Polyphemus spoke and then we could obtain a kind of social communicative stuff within apolitical statements. This is, although the Cyclops had a language trough out he communicates, he did not possess a notable speech proper of a modern society with their particular lows and the skills of a productive speech which belong to the men who lives social conditions as a common political unity, such as the philosophical ideas from Plato and Aristotle. So this is, Polyphemus and Odysseus are in an antithetical position.

This is an article about the analysis of the uulnus amoris that the gods Eros and Cupid cause in Medea and Dido since the divine intervention of the goddesses Aphrodite and Venus, respectively. It researches the way Medea and Dido are victims of the loving passion, by identifying the mythical agents that intervene and the causes by which another god requests Aphrodite`s and Venus intervention. The theoretical framework is based on the classic rhetoric and the attributes that Eros and Cupid have, which have been extracted from the works of the authors Pindar, Euripides, Apollonius of Rhodes, Virgil and Ovid.

The paper develops an approach to the mythical character of Medea from a gender and geographic studies in Ovid’s and Seneca’s works. The analysis includes the concepts of space and symbolic and physical space related to female that contributes to establish social and cultural relations of identity and ideology in imperial Rome.

This article analyzes the intertextual presence of friar Bartolomé de las Casas’s History of the Indies in Vigil of the Admiral of Augusto Roa Bastos. Hence, it means to locate and analyze how the different intertexts function in Vigil. Particularly, the intertextual game contributes to the creation of the different images related to the Admiral, and Las Casas, originated on several polemic aspects derived from the commemoration of the quincentennial of the discovery of America. In the case of Columbus, the issues concerning the fact of being the true discoverer, and if he acted motivated by true evangelizing motives, are answered. In Vigil, the answers are negative, in clear opposition to Las Casas, who saw in the Genoese the intermission of the providence and his good intentions. In addition, there is a caesura towards Las Casas’s apology of Columbus, staging his radicals as a consequence of his fight for the indigenous people’s rights. In both cases, a humorous bias is noted. Roa plays with history by using the fictional persuasion in order to consolidate his project of presenting a more “common” side of Columbus (contrary to his mythical or emblematic image), and by using the fictional persuasion rather than the accuracy of the aforesaid history. Thus, confronting those points of view unwilling to notice the colonialist bias of the glorious image of the admiral.

The mythological universe that J. R. R. Tolkien recreates in The Lord of the Rings (1954-5) had its origin by his desire to give their languages a home and creatures who spoke them. His stories were written to procure a world to their languages, rather than languages to those stories. Language constitutes the starting point of all its legendarium. However, although Tolkien's work has been the focus of study by disciplines, such as philosophy, psychology or literature, there were hardly any semiotic studies about his linguistic creations up until a few years ago. That's a surprising fact if we take into account the importance they have in life and works of the philologist. This is why we have decided to focus our work on the importance of these invented languages in Tolkien's literary work. As if it were an exciting trip into Middle-earth, we trace a journey into the different languages that represent the essence of The Lord of the Rings. Finally, we analyze the main phonetic, morphological and syntactic features of its most important linguistic creations, Quenya and Sindarin.

Over the years, literary speech, predominantly masculine, has created a spectrum made of literary images around the woman. One of the representations which is part of her imaginery is the literary landscape. For this research, we have compared the literary woman with this concept, the literary landscape, according to a territorial perspective of woman’s character and, therefore, to the real one. In order to show this relation, we have used the concept of simulacra (Baudrillard, 1978) and its real repercussions. Then, we have developed the link between the literary representation of the island in its own landscape and the literary interpretation of woman, by using the term land-as-woman (Kolodny, 1973). As an example, we have analyzed the testimonies which build the novel Mararía (1975), by Rafael Arozarena. Finally, we have concluded that feminizing the environment reinforces the gender roles which take part of the eternal feminine, so the real woman, as well as that conservative governments, such as the Spanish dictatorship after the civil war, the woman’s body, due to its procreative potencial, belongs to the system as the soil belongs to the country.

The present paper deals with emphatic features occurring in a Spanish report on the state of natural water supply in the Spanish island of Gran Canaria published in 1862. The text reflects the author’s concerns with the irrigation infrastructures in this island. My main interest is related to the way the author expresses his caveats and his use of emphatic devices. This said, my main objective is to explore specific language uses that convey the expression of emphasis in earlier Spanish. The emphatic features used in Bartolomé Martínez’s text published in Boletín de la sociedad económica de amigos del país de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria of March 31, 1862, have been reportedly identified in reports as characteristic features of the scientific report in the XVIII and XIX centuries, and they might therefore be indicative of the authors’ stance concerning both their text and their potential audience. Conclusions will offer major findings dealing with the set of emphatic features deployed in this Spanish report.

After distinguishing between the simple tenses and the respective compound tenses of the verbal conjugation of Spanish in three moods (indicative, potential, and subjunctive) and assuming new qualities of the grammatical aspect (continuous and discontinuous, unlike the traditional perfect and imperfect), the article proposes to establish a new verbal accident: state. It would be added to the six accidents commonly recognized in the grammar: voice, mood, tense, aspect, person, and number. The morphematic nature of the state differs from the morphematic nature of the aspect: there would be a decisive criterion to differentiate these two concepts. The article also explains that the non-personal forms of the verb (infinitive, gerund, and participle) have in particular the state morpheme. It concludes with a new model and terminology of verbal conjugation.