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Lourdes Celina Vázquez Parada. “Que besa su mano...”. Cartas de mujeres a religiosos franciscanos en el siglo XIX. Guadalajara: Editorial Universitaria de la Universidad de Guadalajara, 2016, 195 páginas

Carlos Mata Induráin (Coord.). «Estos festejos de Alcides»: Loas sacramentales y cortesanas del Siglo de Oro. Nueva York: IDEA, 2017, 345 páginas Lourdes Celina Vázquez Parada. “Que besa su mano...”. Cartas de mujeres a religiosos franciscanos en el siglo XIX. Guadalajara: Editorial Universitaria de la Universidad de Guadalajara, 2016, 195 páginas Emmanuel Marigno, Carlos Mata Induráin y Marie-Hélène Maux (editores). Cervantès quatre siècles après: Nouveaux objets, nouvelles approches. Binges: Éditions Orbis Tertius, 2017, 284 páginas Annette Scholz y Marta Álvarez (Eds.). Cineastas emergentes. Mujeres en el cine del siglo XXI. Madrid: Iberoamericana, 2018, 306 páginas

This article investigates the travelogueswritten by Costa Rican authors who left the country at the end of the 19th century. It seeks to determine what are the foundational texts of the so-called "odeporeic" or travel literature in Costa Rica. As background, it considers the official reports that were sent from Nicaragua in the context of the war against the filibusters. In 1858, the writer Manuel Argüello Mora publishes a chronicle about a trip through this neighboring country. Nicaragua will also be the reference for a book published by Pío Víquez in 1887, where an official tour of the Costa Rican government is described. This border country is the immediate reference of these inaugural chronicles due to the recent war waged in this territory and the constitution of a national epic. The second part analyses the stories about the trips through Europe, mainly the texts that Argüello Mora will publish in the newspapers of the time. For the analysis of this corpus a semiotic methodology is used, which starts from the textual explanation and refers to the historical-cultural references. This paper proves that the literary genre "odeporic" was cultivated in Costa Rica parallel to the emergence of "national literature", a fact that took place at the end of the 19th century.

This paper aims to be an attempt to decrease the lack of studies about the lexical history of Central American Spanish, so its main goal is to analyse Indigenous lexical items (indigenisms) that can be found in the chapters devoted to El Salvador in the Descripción geográfica-moral de la diócesis de Goathemala, a chronicle written in 1770 by Pedro Cortés y Larraz, archbishop of Guatemala. Thus, issues like etymological origin of indigenisms, their integration degree, semantic fields where they are used or items that can be considered as americanisms from a dynamic and usage point of vieware taken into account. The final purpose of the analysis is to detect diatopically marked words and to describe the dialectalization of this linguistic level that, by means of indigenisms, can be discovered in this region at the end of 18thcentury.

Both educators and psychologists have called attention to a need to spark innovation in the classroom in general and in the university classroom in particular. The use of ICT and the implementation of new approaches to teaching that allow, on the one hand, teachers to cater for diversity and, on the other hand, students to take the reins of the learning process havebecome the building block of innovation at university level. The present study describes the implementation of a flipped classroom approach with university students that are studying content through English as Foreign Language. Using a control group (45 students) and anexperimental group (44 students), the results show that the implementation of a flipped classroom approach seems to accelerate students’ learning. Apart from the academic results, the study also gives evidence of the positive impact on students’ self-esteem.

The purpose of this work has been to study the mechanisms of civility in the XVI century. To this end, six speech acts (invitation, advice, request, plea, petition and mandate) have been analyzed in two corpus of differentiated letters: private letters to the Indies and Teresian letters. In these texts we have studied a total of 218 speech acts, analyzing: i) the expression and characteristics of the different speech acts; ii) the strategies of (un)courtesy and attenuating elements; iii) the variation of the courtesy in function of the interlocutors and the incidence of speech acts on the receiver's image. The speech act most used in the corpus is the petition. By constituting a potential threat to the relationship of the interlocutors, the requests are used with attenuators to mitigate the pressure on the recipient. This work aims to be a contribution to courtesy studies from the perspective of historical pragmatics. The results presented here correspond only to the letters that make up the study corpus. Only broader studies, covering a greater number of letters, and including more diastratic and diaphase varieties, will help to consolidate the observations made here and to complete the description of the mechanisms for using courtesy in the XVI century.

Japanese loanwords related to spare time constitute the fifth biggest semantic field (7 words out of a total of 92) of all such words used currently in Spanish. For the first time concerning Spanish, the leisure activities Japanese loanwords are described thoroughly from a formal, semantic and historical perspective in the present article. Further, the degree of adaptation of these loanwords within the Spanish lexical inventory will be indicated. In order to carry out this analysis, we have gathered all the available information on the Japanese loanwords for leisure activities in several sources (current Spanish dictionaries and other foreign languages dictionaries, as well as some computerized corpora of Spanish). The results reflect that these words, most of them introduced in recent times, are alive in our language.

The general elections of 2016 were atypical because they represented the first electoral repetition of our democracy as a consequence of the inability to form a government after the December 2015 elections. In this context, the use of Twitter by emerging political actors is studied. These political actors impeded the formation of government by ending with the bipartisan system that dominated the political system since the Spanish democratic transition. The research objectives are: to analyze the contents disseminated during the electoral campaign by the actors analyzed. Investigate the similarities and differences between the messages disseminated by the parties and, by the leaders, observing which actors managed to viralize their contents more. For the development of the research, a mixed methodology is used. The results reveal that the main functions by which parties and political leaders use Twitter in the electoral campaign are: the counter campaign and self-promotion.

University radio is a means of communication that has been shaping its identity since 1915 (Faus, 1973, Miller, 2007), based on social needs and the functions of university institutions (Ventín, 2018). Today, to refer to the university radio, is to understand it from its different purposes: the dissemination of knowledge, extension and training of students. Like any media, with a greater or lesser degree of organization, it has a productive structure made up of, among others, students. But do students have the same weight in each of the types of university radio stations? Do they fulfill the same role? Are there differences in the productive profiles and in the decision-making processes? With the present report research result is intended to expose the role played by students in each of the purposes of university radios, with the aim of determining their weight and value as part of their structures, so that these media can understand the type of link they maintain to enhance their profile as members of these media. Starting from a descriptive investigation of mixed, quantitative and qualitative methodology, and correlational approach, this article has been structured in four parts: the first in which the concept of university radio is developed, in order to typify this means of communication from its functions fruit of the medium and university interrelation. A second one in which the methodology carried out is exposed. A third one in which the student's role is exposed from two components: its weight in the productive structure and its production dynamics. And a final, the conclusions, in which the role of the student is specified and its role is correlated with each of the types of university radio.

Through a virtual ethnography in social networks, we examined the discursive frameworks that regulate the interactions of internet users surrounding the political party “Podemos”. We interviewed and observed internet users who reacted to televised political debates where members of the Podemos party participated. Our research primarily analyzes the incursion of trolls disrupting the dynamics of the forums and the reactions of its participants. In the arc of this cross-platform (television and digital media) narrative, we identify the different mass media processes, understood as instants of permeability, in the speech of individuals. The research asks if the non-hierarchical nature of new media allowed spaces of freedom. The analysis of the results draws a bleak picture, where instead of facilitating debates in which rational understandings are reached, the digital modes of sociability polarize the discursive inertia. It concludes with a reflection on the need to subvert these inertias through education to the unpredictable and to discursive plurality.