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This study analyses lexical production and the internal organization of one of the nuclear categories of universal human grammar: Verbs. A total of 112 native Spanish speakers completed a fluency task with this metatheoretical label as stimulus. Based on their responses, we propose a semantic-grammatical characterization of the most available verbs and we examine the internal structure of the category by constructing a weighted and undirected lexical network. The results show a high productivity of the category, with well-defined limits, prioritizing the production of forms which, on the one hand, show general processing advantages (primitive two-syllable verbs) and, on the other hand, represent the prototypical theoretical subclasses, with the representative components of an action (events with bivalent argument structure syntactically realized as subject-object). In turn, the lexical network is defined as a small-world network, with short distance between nodes and high local clustering. The centrality of verbs in the network correlates with their age of acquisition, and the imaginability and concreteness of the actions they designate. Regarding its modularity, the division into communities of the network accounts for the weight of semantics in its configuration, as in the associations with greatest weight. All this seems to indicate that Verbs, despite being conceived as an artificially constructed category, has a basis that results from the apprehension of reality and grammatical abstraction. However, it undergoes a partial restructuring because of the formal instruction process that explicitly defines its limits, and this is reflected both in the lexical production it generates and in the internal organization of the category.

Having outlined the debates developed by twentieth century’s free verse theory, the focus of this research is to discover how the lack of a metric pattern in Gonzalo Rojas’ (1916-2011) poetry has led to a genuine sound; acknowledging studies are often based on the topics of his works. Intending to widen the analysis, this study argues that the importance of free verse rhythm in its books is due to its capacity to build a historical meaning, as it was stated in the essays of Henri Meschonnic, and also due to the close association between the form of the poem and life cycles: breathing, heartbeat, blinking. From that relation between rhythm and idea, previously studied by Amado Alonso, this research has aimed to unveil how the recurrence, tension and contrast between phrases, so as the repetition of sound figures and of syntactic structures has become the basis of Rojas’ melody. Thus, the groundwork has started with the analysis of three texts from La miseria del hombre (1948), Materia de testamento (1988) and Diálogo con Ovidio (2000), respectively, specially focusing on his mastering of enjambment. The search of spontaneity and the need of a new rhythmic regularity led the author to design a type of poetry aimed at the listener and with emphasis on its oral nature. It fit with a Latin American post Avant-garde poetry that sought to reverse the scale of values and to add traditionally antipoetic materials to the verse.

This article presents a study focused on the analysis and promotion of reading within the university context, specifically at the University of Valencia. Its objective is to offer a critical reflection on the reading experiences of a group of twenty foreign students enrolled in the course Lecturas españolas contemporáneas, part of the first-year curriculum in the Bachelor's Degree in Hispanic Studies. Through the use of various questionnaires and assessment tools, the study examines different reader typologies and identifies prevailing conceptions of literature among the students, who are between twenty and twenty-one years of age. In line with the initial aims of the study, the article proposes future lines of research aimed at guiding university instructors in the selection of literary texts that align more closely with the interests and profiles of students enrolled in this course

The study of the phraseologisms of two languages allows us to know the specificities of the linguistic systems in contrast and the expressions that make them up. At present, there is still a long way to go in this area, so this article aims to shed light on the peculiarities and similarities of the phraseological units of Spanish and Catalan that contain the voices sea and wind, two words with a high rate of phraseological production in both languages. Data are extracted from different sources and a contrastive examination is carried out using different comparison parameters. Significant results are obtained that could be applied in the development of future bilingual dictionaries, in translation and even in the teaching of these languages.

This article reports on a qualitative analysis of the discourse in 1973 novel The Dethroned Prince written by Miguel Delibes. Frequencies of categories and codes are sought, trying to identify planes and the relationship between them. Through this content analysis, it was possible to identify a scale of content levels and the relationship established among them, as well as to be linked to autobiographical facets of the author. The main contributions consist of discovering the relevance that the writer gave to family relationships in terms of the child's attachment and manifestations such as bedwetting due to restlessness. This information and this kind of approach is relevant to deepen the Delibian constants.

The article presents an approach to the literary expression of Rafael Chaparro Madiedo from the concept of minor literature developed by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari. The approach assumes a direct relationship between the notions of becoming, writing block and composition;assuming that the expressive act associates multiple factors of development that are in constant flux, including with the vital experience of the reader and the writer. To account for the above, it briefly describes the literary view of the author, his perception of literature and the relationship with theconcepts learned.

The concept of stigmatization traditionally presented by Erving Goffman is projected in this article from Axel Honneth's theory of recognition. The relationality assumed by Goffman is the key that allows this task, which leads to distinguishing between discrimination and stigmatization based on how the motivational structure of individuals is affected through practical relations-to-self, and the emotions associated with these two phenomena, illustrated through literary extracts.

The aim of this paper is to question the concept of philosophical-theological discourse in the Renaissance period from a gender perspective. To achieve this, the theoretical foundations of the research are first presented, which cover certain interrelationships between specialized language, philosophy-theology and feminine discourse. Next, the three phases of the qualitative methodology used are specified, which follows the terminological studies based on textual genres: a) selection and justification of The Interior Castle by Saint Teresa of Ávila as a study corpus; b) extraction of examples that can be interpreted from a philosophical-theological perspective and c) comparison of these fragments to others from male texts whose inclusion in the philosophical canon no one questions. In the analysis of the corpus, therefore, the results of this third phase are reflected, the extracts of which are shown taking into account, on the one hand, the writing intention and the own and others' expectations in relation to the purpose of the work; and, on the other hand, to the formal and conceptual within discursive knowledge. The main conclusions raise the need to reestablish the limits between the forms and contents of specialized discourses, given the complex communicative strategies acquired by some women when elaborating them within, always, their sociohistorical context.

This article presents the theoretical and methodological framework, and literature review, as developed in a study about the prepositions in Romané spoken in Chile. The most prominent aspects of two of these prepositions ―angla and bi― are explained to illustrate the type of analysis carried out (the remaining prepositions will be analysed in future publications). The referential framework follows Haspelmath’s considerations (2009) regarding a flexible theoretical framework as well as the guidelines arising from Garvin’s Functional Empiricism (1979). The study follows a qualitative descriptive approach. The methodology consisted in the reading and analysis of a corpus consisting of the gospels ―Mateo, Marko, Lukas and Juan―, and the books Apostole and Romanos, from the Nuevo Testament Romane (New Testament in Romané) (Sociedad Bíblica, 2007), as well as five traditional texts: three stories (paramíchura) and two songs (lliliá). The prepositions that are proposed in general, together with those examined herein in particular, are analysed in terms of their main uses, with the inclusion of examples, as well as some comments focusing on some prominent topics and some research projections. The article concludes with some considerations, since the general conclusion will be included in another publication, after all proposed prepositions are presented.

El artículo explora la socialización de la lectura en la Biblioteca Pública Digital y la Biblioteca Digital Escolar, dos plataformas públicas de lectura digital en Chile. Analizando estos entornos de interacción digital, sus affordances y funcionalidades, mediante la noción de código técnico y entrevistas a usuarios, demostramos que la socialización se ve tensionada entre un paradigma que remedia la lectura de lo impreso y otro, propio del medio digital, que facilita el compartir, comentar y publicar. A pesar de las limitaciones impuestas a la socialización de la lectura, los usuarios diseñan estrategias que dan cuenta de una creatividad modular de las prácticas de lectura. El artículo se pregunta, finalmente, sobre las características que deberían tener las políticas de acceso a la lectura digital.