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María Luisa Bombal is one of the most renowned Chilean writers; her avant-garde writing marks a turning point in the history of Chilean literature, and her novel *La Amortajada* is considered groundbreaking in the Latin American context. Given this, we revisit the novel to analyze it in light of the present and renew its reading. To do so, we focus on the intimate and the domestic, which, although evident themes in the novel, have often been regarded in critical studies as aspects that reflect stereotypical and patriarchal views of femininity. Here, however, we aim to show how these spaces, historically associated with women, are valued and aestheticized by Bombal. We demonstrate that *La Amortajada* is, in itself, a way of speaking about femininity by embodying it in spaces that are not merely oppressive. Additionally, we explore how the shroud can be understood as a metaphor that the author uses to challenge the religious, social, and cultural boundaries that constrained women in her time. Ultimately, this paper draws attention once again to a fertile text that still allows us to reflect on femininity from multiple perspectives and meanings.

In this article we explore, from the perspective of Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), the resources of the system of modality that realize the gradation of stances expressed by the authorial voices inserted in news articles, regarding the urgency of facing the drought affecting the central-northern area of Chile. From a corpus of five news articles published on digital platforms in the period 2019-2021, we approach the analysis form a trinocular perspective (Halliday, 1994). The focus lies on the interpersonal patterns of meanings, mapped by the engagement subsystem of the appraisal system in interaction with resources from the graduation subsystem. The analysis of the corpus allows us to visualize that the graduation of dialogic perspectives in the voices of experts contributes to modeling their judgments and attitudes regarding climate change on scales of obligation carried out through the prominence of evaluative micro-maneuvers of [contract: deny] + [contract: demand] and [expand: consider] + [contract: demand].    

The relationship between quantifiers and determinants is a topic of interest for both grammar and pragmatics. From a grammatical perspective, there is currently controversy about the use of determinants, such as the term ciertos, in quantifying function. The present study seeks to provide empirical evidence to this issue, from an experimental pragmatic perspective. For this purpose, a protocol was adapted. This protocol has investigated the inferences generated in the listeners in quantification statements, such as sentence Algunos elefantes son mamíferos, which can be interpreted as algunos, pero no todos or as algunos y posiblemente todos. A forced choice task was presented that alternated subinformative sentences governed by the term Algunos and the term Ciertos. The results allow us to establish that Spanish users process both terms in an equivalent manner, without distinguishing the grammatical categories of quantifiers and determinants.

In Chile, between 2020 and 2022, the first proposal for a new constitution was written by the Constitutional Convention (CC), an organ with 155 representatives voted by the Chilean people. The CC was characterised by gender parity as well as seventeen seats reserved for representatives of ten native peoples. In the opening discourses delivered in a CC session, all the representativesexpressed their motivations and expectations regarding the new constitution. These discourses offer us an opportunity to explore the different ways of constructing identities used by the native peoples’representatives as new political actors. We, thereby, pose the question: what is the discursive ethos of the native peoples’ representatives at the Chilean CC in their opening discourses? In order to answer it, we analysed the seventeen opening discourses delivered by the native peoples’ representatives. We characterised their ethos by identifying the features of shown ethos, expressed ethos and previous ethos, as well as the communicators and the addressees of each utterance. It is a descriptive study in the field of Discourse Analysis. According to the results, the ethos that stands out is one of fighters who claim and strongly hold native peoples’ values, as well as an ethos of victims.

The objective of this article is to make visible the Chilean novel El río (1962) by the Chilean writer and criminal Alfredo Gómez Morel (1917-1984), a text that is enigmatic due to its publishing success in the 1960s despite dealing with sordid themes through visceral language and without concessions. In these pages we will give an account, around the "ugly realism", of the way in which the narrator (Gómez Morel's alter ego) displays the disgust, the abject and miserable of the environment that supports an aesthetic conception, and, therefore, political (Rancière, 2011), dissident, full of nuances and gray scales. The river, as a system in permanent movement, is a place that contrasts with neighborhood spaces where it is possible to address the lack of opportunities to face the future in a different way; However, the "world of the river" is a seductive space, whose own norms, laws and codes dress it as a borderline, marginal, miserable and rebellious place from where centripetal power can be resisted.

The article attempts to systematize existing approaches to the problem of the meaning of human life. Within the framework of the well-known division into nihilism, supernaturalism and naturalism, analysis of meaning is carried out, which is illustrated by the thought experiment Save Sisyphus. Existing naturalistic approaches are systematized on several grounds, as a result of which the antinomy of the meaning of life is demonstrated. The authors suggest a way of overcoming this antinomy: if naturalism wants to continue the discussion about the meaning of life, it will require changing the paradigm of the search for the meaning of life to the search for the aim of life.

Levinas searches for the meaning of humanity through an analysis of sociality, or intersubjective relationships. In the end, he feels encouraged to surpass the limits of objective knowledge that when formalized, annul the individuality of things and the transcendence of otherness, which exercises domination over the other. Instead, he proposes to reach the other by a relationship, that by inverting cognitive intentionality, displaces the power and lets the other be, while respecting their absolute transcendence. This relationship with the other is the essence of ethical relationship and consists in recognizing the weakness, vulnerability, and dignity of the other until reaching the extreme of dying for them. The face of the other is a plea that demands that I be.

This essay addresses Mouvements (1952), Saisir (1979) and Par des traits (1984) by the Belgian poet and painter Henri Michaux (1899-1984). Based on an analysis of these books, I propose that the signs that compose them resist both figuration and the usual conventions of verbal language, a phenomenon that goes hand in hand with a particular research to generate a sense of movement and dynamism. As my study demonstrates, the signs of these works display a gestural, corporal and kinetic dimension of writing.

The beginning of the feminist movements in Korea is usually associated with the arrival of modernity, understood as the opening to new ideas that came from abroad. In opposition to the oppressive neo-Confucian system, some pioneers rose up and promoted a set of reforms that would lead to equality between men and women. This article offers an approach to the ideal of a new woman that Kim Wonju and Na Hye-seog defended through their biography and work.