Pub Date : 2017-12-19DOI: 10.28914/atlantis-2017-39.2.14
Jorge Diego Sánchez
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Pub Date : 2017-12-01DOI: 10.28914/ATLANTIS-2017-39.2.10
E. A. Soler, Ariadna Sánchez Hernández
The present study explores pragmatic learning during study abroad (SA) programs, focusing on gains in learner recognition and production of pragmatic routines, and considers whether proficiency and type of routine play a role in this. One hundred and twenty-two international students in their first semester of study at US universities completed a pre-test and a post-test version of a vocabulary knowledge scale (VKS) and a written discourse-completion task (DCT). Pragmatic routines elicited for recognition were categorised according to how bound they are to specific situations, while production routines were operationalised in terms of prototypicality. The results revealed that knowledge of pragmatic routines increased during a semester abroad, particularly in terms of recognition. While this increase was unrelated to proficiency, type of routine did play a significant role. Students showed greater gains in recognition of situational routines and in production of those that are highly-prototypical. The findings of the study underline the importance of SA programs for the acquisition of pragmatic routines, and suggest that exposure to routines in relevant contexts enhances pragmatic development. Keywords: interlanguage pragmatics; study abroad; pragmatic routines; L2 pragmatic competence; recognition; production
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Pub Date : 2017-12-01DOI: 10.28914/Atlantis-2017-39.2.09
C. Rodríguez-Juárez
This paper presents a description of the alternations in which the location argument participates in English and accounts for its various realizations from the point of view of Role and Reference Grammar. The analysis of the multiple alternating behaviour of the location argument in various transitive and intransitive alternations in English is mostly related to marked macrorole assignment typically to Undergoer, such as in He loaded the truck with hay (as compared with the kernel construction He loaded hay on the truck ), but also to Actor as for instance in the Location subject alternation, in which the location argument occupies the subject position, as in The bag carries all your belongings , a construction which implies the loss of one of the arguments in the kernel structure ( I carry all your belongings in the bag ). Additionally, the syntactic behaviour of location arguments in marked constructions very often conveys a change of Aktionsart ascription with respect to the kernel construction, as in the swarm alternation in which the predicate in the kernel construction is analysed as an activity ( Bees swarmed in the garden ) whereas in the marked construction it changes into a state ( The garden is swarming with bees ), a feature that has been attested in some of the constructions analysed in this paper. This investigation also provides an analysis of the with- phrase that is often encoded in the marked constructions where the location argument is codified as a core argument. Keywords: alternations; constructions; location argument; Role and Reference Grammar
本文从角色语法和指称语法的角度描述了位置论在英语中参与的变化，并说明了它的各种实现方式。对英语中各种及物及不及物变句中位置参数的多重交替行为的分析，主要与典型的Undergoer(如He loaded The truck with hay，与核心结构He loaded hay on The truck相比)的标记宏观角色分配有关，但也与Actor有关，例如在location主语变句中，位置参数占据主语位置。如在The bag carried all your财物中，这个结构暗示内核结构中丢失了一个参数(I carry all your财物in The bag)。此外,位置参数标记的句法行为结构经常传达改变Aktionsart归属对内核结构,在内核中的谓词的群交替施工分析作为一个活动(在花园里蜜蜂爬满)而在标志建筑它改变成一个状态(花园是挤满了蜜蜂),这个功能已经被证明在一些结构分析。本研究还提供了with -短语的分析，该短语通常编码在标记结构中，其中位置参数被编码为核心参数。关键词:交替;结构;位置参数;角色和参考语法
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Pub Date : 2017-12-01DOI: 10.28914/atlantis-2017-39.2.04
Silvia Pellicer-Ortín
Anita Desai’s novel Baumgartner’s Bombay (1988) makes evident its alliance with the determinist view of history according to which history repeats itself without allowing human agency to escape the occurrence of events. Baumgartner’s Bombay embodies this view by telling the story of Hugo Baumgartner, a man condemned to suffer the same destiny of exclusion and abuse all his life. My main aim is to demonstrate that, through this hybrid figure (German, Jewish, Indian), along with the circular structure of the novel and the repetitive use of images and metaphors evoking Otherness and alienation which this analysis discloses, Desai deploys the multidirectional model of memory, defined by Michael Rothberg as the overlap of individual and collective traumatic memories of different nations at different times. I conclude that Desai’s work exemplifies the way individual and collective Holocaust memories may be transposed to divergent traumatic events and conflicts, like those of the Partition and the British internment camps in India. Furthermore, it reveals how the examination of notions of Otherness and stereotypical identity formation can be helpful to understand the mechanisms that underlie the diverse episodes of genocide and trauma witnessed during the twentieth century. Keywords: Holocaust; multidirectional memory; Postcolonialism; history; Anita Desai; Otherness
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Pub Date : 2017-12-01DOI: 10.28914/ATLANTIS-2017-39.2.06
Pablo Ruano San Segundo
This article presents an analysis of how reporting verbs can contribute to the creation of fictional personalities in literary texts. The examination of verbs was carried out using Caldas-Coulthard’s (1987) taxonomy, in which verbs are classified in self-contained categories according to the reporter’s level of mediation on the words glossed. The examples under analysis were all taken from Charles Dickens’s Nicholas Nickleby (1839). For the sake of consistency, I focused on one character, Ralph Nickleby, whose words are reported using twenty-six verbs a total of 501 times throughout the story. As will be shown, Dickens’s choice of verbs projects a specific way of speaking that triggers information about the villain’s personality, thereby contributing to shaping his well-known evil character. The analysis will also illustrate how reporting verbs can influence the way in which readers form an impression of characters on the basis of their ways of speaking during the course of a story. Keywords: reporting verbs; fictional personalities; characterisation; Charles Dickens; Nicholas Nickleby; Ralph Nickleby
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Pub Date : 2017-12-01DOI: 10.28914/ATLANTIS-2017-39.2.08
Eugenia Casielles-Suárez
espanolLos habitos linguisticos de los latinos en los EEUU siguen atrayendo la atencion de politicos, profesores, periodistas, linguistas y del publico en general. Mientras que los hablantes monolingues de ingles esperan que los hispanos adopten el ingles como han hecho otros inmigrantes, los hablantes monolingues de espanol esperan que conserven y usen un espanol “puro.” Incluso los hablantes bilingues critican a los que hablan los dos idiomas por mezclarlos o hablar Spanglish. Este termino ha sido rechazado por algunos linguistas que argumentan que no es tecnicamente valido y que solamente ocurre en registros de habla informal. Este trabajo considera la naturaleza linguistica, las funciones sociolinguisticas y las actitudes sobre el Spanglish, muestra que los latinos estan usando esta variedad hibrida y heteroglosica mas alla de los registros de habla informal y sugiere una perspectiva mas amplia que tenga en cuenta no solamente las caracteristicas linguisticas del Spanglish sino tambien su contexto politico, social y cultural. EnglishThe language practices of Latinos in the US continue to attract attention from politicians, educators, journalists, linguists and the general Hispanic and non-Hispanic public. While monolingual speakers of English in the US expect Hispanics to shift to English like other minority language speakers have done in the past, monolingual speakers of Spanish expect them to speak “pure” Spanish. Even Spanish-English bilingual speakers criticize Latinos for mixing Spanish and English or speaking Spanglish. This term has been rejected by some linguists who claim that it is technically flawed and only applies to casual oral registers. In this paper I consider the linguistic nature, sociolinguistic functions and attitudes towards Spanglish, I show that Latinos are using this hybrid, heteroglossic variety beyond casual oral registers, and I suggest a broader perspective which not only considers the linguistic features of Spanglish but also the political, social and cultural issues involved.
{"title":"Spanglish: The Hybrid Voice of Latinos in the United States","authors":"Eugenia Casielles-Suárez","doi":"10.28914/ATLANTIS-2017-39.2.08","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.28914/ATLANTIS-2017-39.2.08","url":null,"abstract":"espanolLos habitos linguisticos de los latinos en los EEUU siguen atrayendo la atencion de politicos, profesores, periodistas, linguistas y del publico en general. Mientras que los hablantes monolingues de ingles esperan que los hispanos adopten el ingles como han hecho otros inmigrantes, los hablantes monolingues de espanol esperan que conserven y usen un espanol “puro.” Incluso los hablantes bilingues critican a los que hablan los dos idiomas por mezclarlos o hablar Spanglish. Este termino ha sido rechazado por algunos linguistas que argumentan que no es tecnicamente valido y que solamente ocurre en registros de habla informal. Este trabajo considera la naturaleza linguistica, las funciones sociolinguisticas y las actitudes sobre el Spanglish, muestra que los latinos estan usando esta variedad hibrida y heteroglosica mas alla de los registros de habla informal y sugiere una perspectiva mas amplia que tenga en cuenta no solamente las caracteristicas linguisticas del Spanglish sino tambien su contexto politico, social y cultural. EnglishThe language practices of Latinos in the US continue to attract attention from politicians, educators, journalists, linguists and the general Hispanic and non-Hispanic public. While monolingual speakers of English in the US expect Hispanics to shift to English like other minority language speakers have done in the past, monolingual speakers of Spanish expect them to speak “pure” Spanish. Even Spanish-English bilingual speakers criticize Latinos for mixing Spanish and English or speaking Spanglish. This term has been rejected by some linguists who claim that it is technically flawed and only applies to casual oral registers. In this paper I consider the linguistic nature, sociolinguistic functions and attitudes towards Spanglish, I show that Latinos are using this hybrid, heteroglossic variety beyond casual oral registers, and I suggest a broader perspective which not only considers the linguistic features of Spanglish but also the political, social and cultural issues involved.","PeriodicalId":54016,"journal":{"name":"Atlantis-Journal of the Spanish Association of Anglo-American Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2017-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79858170","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2017-12-01DOI: 10.28914/ATLANTIS-2017-39.2.03
Carmen Flys Junquera
This article analyzes the multiple dimensions of hybridity in Getting Home Alive (1986) by Puerto Rican Aurora Levins Morales and Rosario Morales. This revolutionary autobiography is experimental in both form and content, containing poems, stories, journals, reportage and so forth. It resists clear categorization as to genre, defies any one culture or language and presents a sense of place rooted in multiple places. The voices of mother and daughter end up fusing into one, together with the voices of all their ancestors. The multiple sensitivities of both women, products of multidirectional migrations, ethnicities, cultures, languages and class are symbolized in grounding themselves at the crossroads, embracing a relational collective identity, wholeness and choice while rejecting fragmentation or alienation.
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{"title":"Brenda M. Boyle, ed. 2015. The Vietnam War. Topics in Contemporary North American Literature","authors":"Cristina Alsina Rísquez","doi":"10.5860/choice.191532","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5860/choice.191532","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54016,"journal":{"name":"Atlantis-Journal of the Spanish Association of Anglo-American Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2017-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85444505","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2017-06-23DOI: 10.28914/ATLANTIS-2017.39.1.267-272
P. Mitchell
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Pub Date : 2017-06-23DOI: 10.28914/ATLANTIS-2017.39.1.153-172
Marta Fernández-Morales
As theorists from different fields have proved, the hegemonic discourse has excluded women from the grammar of friendship, pitching them as rivals as a requisite for the survival of patriarchy. However, real life and cultural products provide evidence that women are capable of friendship, even in isolating contexts like life-threatening disease. With an interdisciplinary approach that bridges female illness and feminist friendship via drama, this paper analyzes three plays in which bonding in the context of breast cancer is placed center stage. Friendship is presented as a form of agency that allows for the construction of a network within which the cancer patient finds tools to resist the androcentric medical discourse and to recover her capacity to decide and act. This process echoes the philosophy of the Women’s Health and Breast Cancer movements in a productive feedback loop between social movements and their related cultural repertoires. Keywords: theater; breast cancer; friendship; agency; empowerment; medical discourse
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