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This article reads the novel “Nadie me verá llorar” from the perspective of the relations between the language of madness and the language of sanity, and at the same time, the relations between the text, the subject, and the reader. In order to do this, I start by addressing the issue of madness as an absence or, an abundance of language, then, I look at the presence of pathos as a possibility of the existence of madness, and finally, I analyze the relationship between the reader and the text based on what I previously problematized. The notion of madness that I subscribe to for this analysis is the one proposed by Foucault (1972) in History of Madness, pointing out that it must be understood as a historical, cultural, and social construction since it is in constant transformation. Therefore, madness has a fickle character, which makes it impossible to fix.

The notion of transculturation was postulated by the Uruguayan critic Angel Rama and is frequently used in the field of literary criticism. However, there are few studies that intertwine it with the specificity of literature for children. This article, through the methodology of textual analysis, attempts to show how, without completely renouncing regionalism, an attempt at narrative transculturation begins in two books of children´s stories: Cuentos de la selva and Los cuentos de mi Tía Panchita. In them, Horacio Quiroga and Carmen Lyra, respectively, develop, to a greater or lesser extent, their own mechanisms at the three textual levels indicated by Rama: language, narrative structure and worldview (1982, p. 47). In addition, we are also interested in highlighting how, in these works a combination between the regionalist style and the use of marvelous elements can be seen.

This paper addresses the issue of disagreements present in academic texts written by university students from Bribri and Cabecar communities. Following the approaches on bilingualism (Baker, 1993), language contact (Palacios, 2011), and revision (Cassany, 2014), a 10-hour didactic proposal was designed and applied. Firstly, it aimed at raising awareness of the phenomenon of disagreement in varieties of Spanish in contact with Bribri and Cabecar, and, secondly, it promotes the recognition and review of these in academic texts. Moreover, it sought to generate awareness about some desirable characteristics in these writings. This research was raised after making a diagnosis, which showed that the productions written by these students tend to present a greater number of disagreements than those of speakers of historically monolingual communities in Spanish, both in rural and urban areas. An evaluation instrument applied at the beginning and at the end of a course-workshop showed a reduction in the number of disagreements in the revised and corrected texts, as well as a better understanding of important characteristics of the academic texts.

This paper reports on a longitudinal descriptive and quantitative research conducted in a French grammar course at the University of Costa Rica. This nonexperimental study inquired about the effectiveness of three different types of indirect feedback in written assignments, and the type of errors made by students. To collect this information, 24 students were divided into three separate groups, and each worked on one type of indirect feedback: the first one with the use of codes, the second one with the use of colors, and the third one with annotation of errors in the margin of the composition. This research focuses on grammatical concepts such as morphology, syntax and orthography. The findings show that indirect corrective feedback and correction of French as a Foreign Language university students is in fact effective, and what delimits its reach and impact is the kind of feedback provided to students.

The aim of this work is to address the first transformation in the original title of Esteban Pichardo’s Provincial Dictionary of Cuban Voices, which occurred in 1849 with the introduction of casi-razonado. By exploring the historical and linguistic context of the time, together with the author´s personal circumstances, it is possible to understand the ideological reasons behind the change and to reach conclusions about the significance of the created word for the construction of the lexicographic term encyclopedic dictionary.

The main objective of this research is to study humor as a pragmatic and social phenomenon. To this end, we study the satirical-humorous journalism developed in the 19th century during the period known as the Democratic Sexenio from the Revolution of September 1868 until the beginning of the Bourbon Restoration in 1874. This is a period of relative freedom for journalism, which favors the use of irony and humor in the configuration of discourse in the written press. The article presents a brief theoretical framework before discussing the analysis of 16 satirical-humorous magazines, for which we have applied the General Theory of Verbal Humor.

The implementation proposal to create an RFID control prototype to optimize the entry of teachers and monitoring that measures the temperature and brightness levels in the classroom in the Industrial Engineering Faculty of the University of Guayaquil to achieve a Smart Campus. In this project, the Xbee wireless communication system was used to communicate the sensors with the central unit. In addition, this project proposes the resolution to the existing problems that burden the university community to improve the work environment and increase student motivation and optimizing the entry of teachers to the classrooms. Three research methods were used: bibliographic, descriptive and experimental.  Reliability results of 95% of the temperature sensors were obtained. In addition, the brightness sensor nodes were verified to have an effectiveness rate of 99%. Finally, it was verified that the sensor nodes transmitted the data to the central node without any loss of data and the transmission times were efficient. Finally, it is concluded that the field tests carried out determined that it is a low cost, low energy consumption and easy to install system.

The research project presented below was carried out at the Luis Carlos Galán school in commune 4 of the municipality of Soacha, Cundinamarca. With 5 eleventh grade students. The research focused on our main objective, which is the impact of intercultural roots in the strengthening of peaceful coexistence of students in grade 11, that is, how the socialization of students from different cultures has been modified by living in the same space in aspects such as violence and other aspects that derive from it. The research focused on the research method, participatory action, which as mentioned by Negrete, 2009, p. 91 intends to "Stimulate positive indigenous values and start from their own historical, social, economic, political and cultural reality". It is from this that the way in which the techniques of information collection will be implemented is structured according to the objectives defined within the general project, in which the technique is the interview and the collection Instrument is the questionnaire, this research route was the one that allowed the results to be obtained to understand which were the intercultural characteristics that should be strengthened in the school for peaceful coexistence. Therefore, the final product of the research was the creation of a physical booklet with pedagogical, didactic and ludic strategies that gave reason to fulfill the objective of the research project.

This research was based on the selection of an alternative material for the manufacture by plastic injection of the Kia Rio's ventilation grille. This accessory has a high acquisition cost because the vast majority are imported elements. Therefore, a composite material was sought that can replace the original, which was found in a local environment and is applicable in the plastic injection manufacturing process. The COPRAS multi-criteria method was used to choose the ideal material to replace the original, which was ABS-PC, with PP-20% Bamboo fiber. Finally, once the ideal candidate has been obtained, the next step was to carry out simulations of the plastic injection process with computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analysis software for plastics; these simulations were carried out for the original material. The results obtained by the multicriteria selection criterion showed that PP-20% bamboo fiber is the ideal candidate to replace the original. This result was corroborated by the CFD simulation that demonstrated that it has the best characteristics to be applied in the plastic injection process.