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Bodily and mental self-ascriptions are forms of first-person thought where a subject attributes physical properties and psychological states to herself. The body-ownership view argues that a necessary and sufficient condition on such self-ascriptions is the existence of causal links between a spatio-temporal body and the self-ascribed properties or states. However, since P.F. Strawson’s influential attack, this view has been dismissed as a bad philosophical idea. The goal of this brief piece is to outline the body-ownership view and neutralise two classic lines of objection against it: on the one hand, that the stance is incoherent; and, on the other, that it has counterintuitive implications.

When it comes to Second and Foreign Language Teaching, the teaching of pronunciation has, for long, been neglected (Derwin & Munro, 2005) and it has not been given due attention in textbooks (Thompson, 1995). Additionally, studies tend to focus on only some intonation patterns such as wh- questions and yes-no questions, leaving other patterns which are as important unexplored. Thus, a research gap is generated. This study aims to narrow that gap by means of exploring the effectiveness of the teaching of intonation to Spanish-speaking trainee teachers at a Chilean university. The study focuses on a less familiar intonation pattern, that of utterances which express implied information, namely, implications. The study involved 9 participants (3 males, and 6 females) who were in the process of becoming English teachers and who were enrolled in an English phonetics course. All participants took a pre-test followed by a four-session intervention on the intonation of English implications and a post-test which involved the reading of 29 prompts. In order to compare pre- and post-test results, a Wilcoxon signed-ranked test was run. The results drawn from the non-parametric test revealed that the participants were able to perform English intonation for implications better after having received training (Mdn=22) than before the treatment (Mdn=11), Z=-2,668, p=0,008.

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Rodrigo Lira’s poetry is marked by the use of black humor and polyphony, both to refer to the poetic voice and its literary, cultural, social and political context. These strategies for the configuration of their identity and discursive positioning, of a fragmentary nature are used to conjure his sense of belonging, loneliness and guilt of being.

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The article addresses the unpublished letters sent by the Chilean writer Flora Abasolo to the Basque philosopher Miguel de Unamuno. First, it accounts for the literary production of the writer, given the evident ignorance that exists of her within the national intellectual scope. Then, it makes reference to the letters as they are part of the communication and editorial initiative undertaken by Flora in favor of the recognition of her father’s name, the philosopher Jenaro Abasolo, and of his posthumous work, The Political Personality and the America of the Future (1907). Accordingly, the context of the letters is made explicit: their dates, number and purpose; and a critical hermeneutics of part of their content is carried out with the aim of incorporating new biographical and literary backgrounds of the writer and her progenitor. It inquires, in turn, the reasons that Unamuno could have had to leave unfulfilled the commitment to review Abasolo’s work, heeding the circumstances, the strategies followed by Flora and her frame of mind, different from her father’s in the search for recognition. This work is part of a larger research that we have been developing since 2008 on Abasolo. We add the letters to this task as a new document that surpasses the expectations regarding the value that they have for the reconstruction of the life and work of the philosopher from Santiago, and for the evaluation that can be done of the Chilean writer herself. We emphasize, therefore, the convenience of incorporating to the investigations of the philosophy in Chile this class of documents that avoid, beyond its initial inconsequential appearance, to travel paths that must be retraced when the weight of the documentary evidence turns erroneous a part of what speculation had established without background.

This article presents a descriptive study whose purpose is to determine whether rhythm in read-aloud speech from professionals of eight different Chilean cities matches the traditional classification given to Spanish as a syllable-timed language, grouping which is also normally extended to all Romance languages. Several studies have stated that Spanish is a language whose rhythmic patterns can be characterized as syllable-timed, however, other studies, both old and recent, have stated that Spanish has rhythm patterns closer to stress-timed languages. Up to date, no studies have investigated this aspect of rhythm in Chilean Spanish. In this study, a corpus of read-aloud speech from 30 participants from different geographical areas in Chile is analysed. The analysis was conducted after obtaining quantitative metrics, developed recently in other studies, in order to give more precision and objectivity to the methods. Results show that Chilean Spanish is syllable-timed, although it displays values slightly closer to stress-timed languages than peninsular Spanish. As to the effect of the geographic origin of the subjects, the differences observed were relatively small, which suggests that this type of variation is not of importance in Chilean Spanish rhythm, in read-aloud speech.

The figure of Roberto Navarrete Troncoso was a fundamental part of the Theater of the University of Concepción, because he contributed from the scene - as an actor, director and playwright - in the artistic development of a cast that was an important motor of the cultural development of the city, but also the country.   The article proposes to raise his work from oblivion, so to this effect it analyzes His gray day from the dramatological comment. It is stated that the work is in line with an aspect of the Chilean dramaturgy of the early 1960s, in which the playwrights staged the life crisis and values of a city middle class.

This article draws a parallel between the Odyssey events and the exploration of gambling. To do so, freely using various philosophical approaches, it is argued that the human being is naturally a player, with a freedom that is restricted from the emergence of the State. This one, having its unfoldings represented by Calypso, Scylla and Charybdis, will have to harmonize this nature with its sovereign power, regulating the exploration of gambling.