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The exit of the United Kingdom from the European Union, popularly known as Brexit, has a great media coverage in Spain. Thus, this paper analyses the journalistic treatment and the ideological bias that this political event received. To do this, a study of the semantic prosody of the term 'Brexit' in the Spanish press was carried out. The study covers a broad period of time, from the exit referendum in June 2016 to the second extension in October 2019. To achieve the analysis, a corpus for specific purposes was compiled made up of the most widely read newspapers in Spain according to the Estudio General de Medios. Specifically, four generalist newspapers (El País, El Mundo, La Vanguardia and ABC) and three economic newspapers (Expansión, Cinco Días and El Economista). The data obtained showed that Brexit received mostly negative coverage in all newspapers, especially economic newspapers that presented a greater number of negative co-occurrences with the term Brexit. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The word creativity has a very recent history in the Spanish lexicon -1983 in the Manual Dictionary of theRAE. Although the word is attested since the early years of the twentieth century, the occurrences will be very low until the seventies. On the other hand, the definition refers to the verb create, which presents a complex etymology in Spanish.The aim of this paper is to examine the linguistic and social genealogy of the concept of creativity in Spanish. Special attention will be paid to the origins, the changes in the definitions and the current combinatorial of the word. It will be seen then that, in order for the word to emerge, society had to detach itself from numerous inertias, so the trajectory of the term serves as an example of the process of humanization and secularization of society and science since the 19th century. It shows, in short, the link between language and society through the analysis of a concept that has become a hallmark of 21st century society. In order to carry out the work, the corpus of the Academy, CORDE, CREA, CORPES XXI and the New Lexicographical Treasure of the Spanish language have been used. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, I reflect on the rhetorical origins of the constructivist tradition and its current revival in this latter discipline. I begin with a brief history of the evolution of rhetorical thinking from its origin in antiquity, considering its subsequent conversion into a mere treatise on stylistic resources; this understanding of rhetoric would last for centuries in the West, and would lead it to its decline, until it later recovered during the twentieth century. Its development over the last hundred years is summarised on three levels: (1) restoration of the tradition inherited (inventory of tropes and figures of speech), (2) recovery of all five rhetorical operations and their political and social reuse and (3) configuration of constructivist rhetoric. This third level is my proposal. I define our understanding of the totality of discursiverhetorical strategies, and the construction of diverse rhetorical speeches, as the way we make conscious our cognitive experiences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

From a broad theoretical perspective including discourse analysis, sociolinguistics and image theory studies, this paper contrasts two sets of advertisements that exploit aviation elements as graphic and textual resources, one corresponding to the early 20th century and the other to the beginning of the 21st century. The intention is to identify continuities and developments in the social representation of air transportation in Argentina advertisements. It can be concluded that the articulation of verbal signifiers and images in these texts still highlight key elements of the social representation of aviation and that this transportation retains sufficient attention value for the advertising genre, although it is not exploited as often as it was 100 years ago. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Peace, as the decree issued by the dictator Franco in 1939 ordered (apart from some later military actions of importance), needed several linguistic operations, which were, at the same time, widely semiotic in nature. The collective demonyms or collective labels that these resistances posed and supposed, gather and transmit to a good extent, the assembled intentions that appeared through the different discourses. The local coherence of these denonyms, their possible sociolinguistic distribution, the fight for the pretended 'Spanishness'-either from the government or the guerrilla side-, the semantic destruction as designed by the Franco regime and the role of the organization's metaphor as ideological basis for the political selfacknowledgement have been analyzed in this paper through a gleaning process. Together with these facts, the study presents how, by opening new analysis perspectives, the most recent Spanish historiography is remarking upon the importance of other designation and names (Los de la sierra - those from the mountains-, los del monte -those from the back woodsetc.). They belong to a very wide communal group traditionally classified as pre-political or primitive [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, I report on one of the linguistic items that has been an important inquiry of research in discourse analysis: discourse markers. The different labels given to these elements may be due to the discourse maker under examination, to its linguistic function in the discourse, or to the researcher's theoretical point of view. In the United States, which is our context of study, few studies have researched the impact of English in the Spanish spoken by Spanish heritage speakers with regard to the use of discourse markers. Current research have arrived to the conclusion that sociolinguistic variables such as speaker's generational adscription and level of bilingualism correlate significantly with the use of discourse markers such 'entonces' (so), 'tú sabes' (you know) and 'como' (like). Thus, the purpose of the present article is not only to report on current research but to encourage more empirical investigation on this topic which could contribute significantly to a better understanding of language contact phenomena. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]