Sistema Regional de Información
en línea para Revistas Científicas de América Latina,
el Caribe, España y Portugal

This paper analyzes the iconography and ideology of the Gallery of the Legislative Assembly of Costa Rica with the objective to compare symbolic and ideological values of the portraits of Presidents and Heads of State of the Republic. In this case, the following aspects are considered: pictorial elaboration, framework and portraiture collection in other visual manifestations. It takes into consideration the portraits of: José María Castro Madriz and Braulio Carrillo Colina to exemplify.

En este artículo, a partir de la aplicación del método de reconstrucción interna, se presentan aspectos de ortografía de la lengua española con el objetivo de facilitar su enseñanza-aprendizaje en la educación formal costarricense.

This essay focuses on how, in Zora Neale Hurston’s novel Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937), African American women get noticed through the use of gaze and visual experience. The marginalization African American women have experienced over the years makes them produce an alternative communication system based on sight and visual understanding. That is, the visual takes over the impossibility of black women to express themselves verbally: instead of voice there is sight.

In this article, we address various routes of grammaticalization in a language of the Mataguayan family, Maká. From the data collected in the field and through the method of historical reconstruction, we propose four instances of morphemes with grammatical functions that come either from nominal lexemes, as is the case of the word 'son' that becomes a diminutive and affective suffix or the one of the word it'ij 'to say' that forms an analytical causative construction; either of grammatical morphemes that become more grammatical, as is the case of the desiderative suffix that takes aspectual value or of the applicatives that seem to come from constructions of serial verbs. We start from the premise that it is possible to analyze various instances of grammaticalization even in languages with scarce historical record since the multifunctionality of the morphemes of the language is constituted as a synchronic indication of the diachronic changes of the language.

El artículo propone un análisis etimológico de los nombres de los descendientes de Ponto presentes en la “Teogonía” de Hesíodo y se establecen comparaciones con la nomenclatura biológica utilizada para denominar algunas especies marinas.

This paper proposes the concept of the vector of argumentative force to exam the value of a sentence in an argumentative sequence.

El artículo analiza, a partir de la terminología sánscrita para referirse a la “épica”, al “mito” y a los “discursos”, la función argumentativa de cinco mitos incluidos en los discursos del libro V del Mahābhārata: Indra, Mātali, Gālava, Yayāti y Vidurā.

This paper offers an approach to the myth as argument. For example, in some contexts myth can be used as criteria of truth, authority argument, exemplum, cause of a phenomenon, term of an analogy, allegory and a mean in order to explain a thesis.

The violent turns out to be a breaker of social laws and established orders, in addition to trying to determine himself as a protagonist and a hero with that rebellion. These approaches, although erroneous, are due to the fact that the training obtained by this individual is somewhat impoverishing: he has low tolerance to frustration and inadequate expressions of anger, he has a certain lack or a deficient social support network; and, worse still, when he conceives himself as the victor, he can put his mastery to the test by punishing the conquered, until he even reaches his annihilation (a very important feature to explain the death of the Slave). Through the protagonist triad (the Jaguar, the Poet and the Slave), the characters go through a series of ontological transformations that allow to see the attitudes and behaviors conditioned by the factor of violence. For this, the semiotics used by Landowski, Desiderio Blanco and Fontanille will be used.

The following article is the first exploratory study, which has a main objective to understand the dynamics of migration in the current economic and social matters in Baja California; due to economic development and the demographic population grows in Tijuana a new linguistic mosaic has been incorporated.This first description will support other studies, specifically in the field of language planning and language policy at the border region (Tijuana-San Diego), as a beginning but at the same time other regions that experiment massive and accelerated migration. This is a qualitative-descriptive study that describes specific axes regarding the recent migration from Central America and the Caribbean in Baja California, as well as linguistic needs that the deported immigrants in the last months of 2017 due to the rigorous migration policy of President of the Unites States of America Donald J. Trump. On the other hand, this study describes the reality that deported and returned immigrants face toward this current situation. The result of this study reveals the linguistic emergence scenarios of immigrants who live at the border region and specifically the role of the languages in the new immigrants of Baja California.