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The aim of this paper is to analyse a corpus of 137 texts published between 1888 and 1899. These texts are included in one of the most successful Spanish-language newspapers published in the United States during the second half of the nineteenth century: Las Novedades (New York, 1876-1918). In the analysis I will determine the linguistic ideologies and the discursive strategies used for the promotion of Hispanism and Spanish language in a sociopolitical context in which the Spanish hegemony was losing all its power at an international level. Thus, the ideologies found are divided in two different categories: the linguistic ideologies that give the language a cultural value and the linguistic ideologies that make reference to the economic and commercial value of the language. The results obtained from this analysis will contribute to understand the role of Spanish language in the United States. Furthermore, this paper presents an unpublished corpus of clear historiographic interest that contributes to clarify the panorama of Hispanism in a country like the United States. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyses the language's identitary space within the migratory process of the arabs onto Chile through the journalistic and literary activities developed by the immigrant community in this country. Secondly, it points out the feeling of arabicity or arabism that promotes and recreates this litterary corpus, which profoundly marks the poetic production of various generations of arab and chilean writers of arab origin. To this end, it presents textual samples of articles from the newspaper al-Iṣlāḥ (La Reforma), later called Mundo Árabe, and various poetic samples from the literary figures: Mahfud Massis (1916-1990), Matías Rafide Batarce (1929) y Emilio Mohor Zummers (1920-2002), amongst other big exponents of the arabic literature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

"Rhetoric and discursive practices of local and institutional journalism. Sant Cugat del Vallès (Barcelona, Spain) in the democratic transition (1979-1987)". The article analyzes municipal press published by he city council of Sant Cugat del Vallès (Barcelona). The period studied is the transition to democracy between 1979 and 1987. The paper provides Recol ReCol (1949-2010), a documentary source of local news repertoire. The article analyzes the rhetorical devices of publishing: the arguments about the journalistic project, its characteristics and purposes. These observations are useful to know the quality of discursive practices, their veracity and institutional loyalty by the editor. By linguistic and legal criteria, the study concludes that the consistorial journalism of that time has been irregular and controversial. On a positive note, research can assess the importance of local news corpus. It also recommends a demanding precise regulation on good discursive practices of public administration. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper seeks to reveal, from a rhetorical perspective, the way in which Shakespeare is portrayed in the press of the Canary Islands in the nineteenth century. In accordance with the studies of reception carried out at that time, the artist is shown in commendatory terms and he is granted an extraordinary, even supernatural, aura. The corpus used for this study provides a classification of rhetorical figures, one that focuses on the interaction with the reader and the authors' wish to share the admiring image of the poet and playwright. Bearing in mind the effect that the critics' words can have when they regard the English writer, I use Perelman and Olbrechts-Tyteca's classification, who distinguish among figures of choice, presence and communion. This classification is intent on determining the effect that certain figures can have in the choice of some words, in the increase of Shakespeare's presence, and in the establishment of communion with the audience so that they feel inclined to share the authors' theses. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The term "Fuenteovejuna" has been used by the media of Spain and Latin America to apply to events of very different natures that in some cases share little in common with Spanish Golden Age Lope de Vega's Fuente Ovejuna. Although most news publications highlight the raising of a group of people against a situation that they consider unfair, only a few news stories portray a violent situation of self-defense against the atrocities and barbarities of an unjust ruler, as is the case in Lope's work. This paper will study the way in which the comedy Fuente Ovejuna has been read by literary critics and used by the press, to study the image that the media offers of society. The analysis of approximately one hundred news stories will show that the issue of violence and self-defense is currently only present in those that take place in Latin America, where the word "Fuenteovejuna" is generally met with negative associations. In contrast, the research will demonstrate that Spanish media often uses the word "Fuenteovejuna" positively and uses it to refer to the nonviolent demonstrations of a multitude in political and social news, which often takes place in Spain. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]