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The analysis of Golden Age Erotic Poetry is a field of study that has been booming in recent years. However, a deep understanding of its methods together with the recovering of texts and their decryption it is yet needed. This is the case of Jerónimo de Barrionuevo, an understudied author concerning his poetic production. Thereby, this paper focuses on four of his (unpublished) erotic poems, which radiate from Petrarchan tradition to end "deviating" towards more lustful spheres. However, that subversion is not far away from the dominant poetic system, for it is actually one of the many possibilities of the model variation induced by the system itself. The purpose is to present some of Barrionuevo's unpublished verses and study how the erotic subversion is performed in them, in addition to clarifying and explaining the erotic images and metaphors used by the author in this process. Whatsoever, this work follows the line of the latest studies which try to expand the lexicon of erotic voices of the Spanish Baroque, as for example the recent Vocabulario del ingenio erótico en la poesía española de los Siglos de Oro (2020) by Javier Blasco and Cristina Ruiz Urbón. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper we analyse the metaphors referred to refugees in Spanish newspapers during 2015. The news belongs to the DIPURE corpus, devoted to the study of public discourse on refugees in Spain. Using the classification of metaphors into source and target domains, we sort out the samples and interpret them pointing at depersonalisation as the main sociosemiotic category. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The metaphorization of motion verbs is a very common phenomenon at the interlinguistic level. In this paper, we examine the metaphorical uses of the Italian movement deictic verbs andare and venire. We delineate a semantic network to recognize the different processes of abstraction that have led to the evolution of the basic literal meaning of 'spatial displacement'. Our analysis evidences the relationships between the deictic and the actional features of the basic meaning of these verbs and their numerous metaphorical and metonymic ramifications. For its classification we have used the interpretive instruments, models and categories of Cognitive Linguistics (moving world, moving ego, subjectivization, etc.). After an introduction of the theoretical assumptions of our investigation, we analyze a corpus of examples from several sources: the Italian edition of A streetcar named desire by T. Williams (Williams, 1963), the corpus of the spoken Italian LIP (De Mauro, Mancini, Vedovelli, Voghera, 1993) and several Italian websites consulted via Google. These examples are part of a broader corpus that has been compiled for the contrastive study of the deictic motion verbs in Italian and Spanish. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The word niña means etymologically the same as pupil ('niñita'), but while the latter has lost this meaning in current Spanish and has remained as a reference of a part of the eye that is no longer related to its origin, the term niña still have in our days its original meaning. The aim of this paper is to see how the expression niña del ojo in Spanish language originates, what makes its formation possible and, from there, to study its development and temporal trajectory through its historical evolution in lexicographic works, as well as its documentation and general extension in the Hispanic world, to lead to an analysis of its situation and current use in relation to the term pupil. According to the results observed, pupil, which in its beginning was a cultism of the anatomical jargon, seems to be displacing the expression niña del ojo, which has been the most used traditionally in the common language. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study is an approach to the analysis of neologism in current gastronomical discourse. New linguistic expressions arise from innovative and sophisticated techniques in the culinary world and they are motivated by various semantic and formal mechanisms. From the linguistic cognitive approach, we try to analyze the role of metonymy and metaphor as recurring mechanisms in the elaboration of new meanings and therefore of semantic neologisms in culinary discourse. Our analysis is based on several procedures of semantic neology and we apply current criteria to recognise neologisms. Data is obtained from a corpus constituted of menus from various top and mid-level restaurants in Spain. We show a representative sample in the present paper. The analysis reveals examples of dynamic lexical neology that are used with pragmatic intention driven by the current gastronomical sector and in which metonymy and metaphor are efficient cognitive mechanisms to express and represent different products. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]