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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]

Based on the data from our corpus and survey, this paper aims to analyse a series of Chinese grammatical errors frequently made by Spanish students, in the light of theories of contrastive analysis and error analysis. We focus our analysis on the errors of six categories (polysemic correspondence, omission, order, collocation, classifier and deixis), and try to identify their possible causes. Lastly, we also offer some strategies in the hope of facilitating the Chinese learning in Spanish-speaking countries, as well as shedding some lights on the Chinese teaching and investigation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper offers a reflection on the inclusion of the gender perspective in the university classroom, specifically, within the compulsory subject of Strategies for communication in multilingual groups of the Degree in Social Education at the University of Almería (Spain). In this, a didactic training proposal for Social Education students is proposed from the parameters of Critical Discourse Analysis to determine what discursive strategies the Spanish press uses to refer to refugee-type migrants, especially women. For this, the corpus created by the R + D DIPURE Project (The Public Discourse on Refugees in Spain) was used, since we consider that the results of the analysis will collaborate in recognizing possible stereotypes and prejudices that can be transmitted in this public discourse of the media, in this case Spanish, to be able to be combated and overcome in the framework of a democratic society that pursues equity and equality between women and men. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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 shall address the Murcian language that appears in several novels of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in the Region of Murcia in order to verify if it constitutes a real sample of the Spanish language spoken in Murcia. To achieve this aim, we shall carry out a historical review to understand the origin of Murcian regionalism and the intellectual movement that emerged at the end of the 19th century. The regionalism born in Murcia in the nineteenth century is a twofold phenomenon, namely, both a political and cultural regionalism. Political regionalism, on the one hand, will be related to the Canton of Cartagena, a federalist insurrection that took place on July 12, 1783 whose goal was to proclaim itself as an independent canton. Cultural regionalism, on the other hand, is intimately tied to the association of the Murcian dialect with the so-called panocho, satirical speech of the Huerta de Murcia among whose predecessors include: Pedro Díaz Cassou, José Martínez Tornel and Andrés Blanco y García. This cultural and intellectual movement aims at promoting a regional identity of Murcia, mainly focusing on a linguistic identity and Murcia's customs and traditions. In addition, it will be worth stressing the great the importance of social stratification in explaining the regional and linguistic identity, since most of Murcia's society came from rural environments with a low level of education. Finally, we also mean to provide a considerable amount of reliable linguistic data which contributes to the studies on the nineteenth-century Spanish language, one of the most little studied within the discipline of History of the Spanish Language. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the present paper it has been performed an investigation on the musical terminology in the academic Dictionary of the Spanish Language. This research will reveal how this dictionary employs the technical mark "Mús." to identify all those terms which are directly or tangentially linked to the musical disciplinary field. To address such study, the macrostructure and microstructure of this academic work have been analysed from a synchronic and diachronic perspective; it means, from the first edition ('Dictionary of Authorities') to the last one (the twenty-third publication of this dictionary). Therefore, these editions have been scrutinised as well as the presence or absence of the aforementioned technical mark "Mus." has been checked in each of the dictionary entries of the different editions of the normative repertoire. Likewise, an analysis has been carried out on the different considerations that must be articulated with respect to specialised terminologies in addition to the criteria considered, according to different authors, to interpret that a word belongs to a particular technical discipline or, on the contrary, this term has undergone a semantic extension that allows it to be part of the common lexicon. In this analysis we have reflected on the lexicographical treatment that the terms coined in our language have received to baptize the realities belonging to the field of music; that is, if these words have been duly included in the general dictionaries (both academic and those that pertain to unscientific lexicography), if they have been the focus of a specialised monographic work or, by contrast, if they have been condemned to continuous belittlement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper it to analyze the concept of "writing style" from the perspective of "creativity", and confronting it with the institutional concept of style, which affects corporations, groups, etc. It is about establishing a differential model and to consider the consequences on the reading comprehension of this institutional communication model. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper analyses how Neuquen's state policies configured territorial knots in the area where the mapuce community Campo Maripe is located, in northern Añelo, the core of the Vaca Muerta geological formation. It is argued that these policies designed spaces boosting certain economic activities and their associated territorialities and brought indigenous deterritorialization as a consequence. The Mapuce community Campo Maripe, whose territory currently partially overlaps with the Loma Campana oil field -one of the three most important fields in the extraction of hydrocarbons by non-conventional methods-, has been selected as a case study due to how notorious its resistance strategies have become over the last few years. Written documents and oral testimonies are used to characterize the complex scenario of territorial overlapping caused by state policies and the development of specific interactions between the different actors within the territorial knots. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This research paper is concerned with the implementation of innovation techniques in the process of learning and teaching foreign languages. Adapting contents to twenty-first century students’ mentalities implies information has to be used collectively. Our main aims are the assessment of informal learning through stimuli and alternative dynamics which connect selfassessment and co-assessment, as well as developing and carrying out competences and strategies which facilitate learning. For the experimental process we worked with Italian and Spanish language students. In order to accomplish our goal, we delivered a series of collaborative courses in which qualitative and quantitative studies related to learning through Facebook as a social network were conducted. Besides, we distributed work among communities which adopted a constructive dimension of knowledge through the shared use of information. The process facilitated both the production and the exchange of knowledge based on the pragmatic and sociocultural nature of the contents, while also taking into account the enhancement of basic competences such as know how to be and how to do. Results were very encouraging, although quite controversial during the collection process, due to the fact that students had been educated for generations in individualistic learning systems. However, learning communities strongly motivated them and, in the end, positive results were reported thanks to the implementation of informal learning. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

School leaders are usually provided with administration-led, fully structured programs for professional development. Research in this field identifies some common attributes for leadership that such programs try to convey. Although this is, and will continue to be, an important part of school leaders’ professional development, digital open content and open courses available and the easy accessibility to specialized networks and virtual communities expand opportunities for self-learning and self-development. In this context, the learning ecologies analysis framework proves useful in extending knowledge on what school leaders do for professional development, what they consider the most useful means for continuous updating and what the components of their individual learning ecologies are. This paper presents the most common strategies for professional development that school leader’s use in Catalonia (Spain), their balance between organized professional development activities and self-development, and how they assess the role digital technologies play in their learning ecologies. A survey with 48 questions was conducted with the aim of gathering information on school leaders’ continuing professional development in Catalan schools. Two hundred twelve school leaders answered the survey. Results focus on learning ecologies, more specifically on strategies for informal learning, forms of privileged training, ICT use and participation in professional networks and communities. Results demonstrate that almost half of the participants hold self-learning their usual professional development strategy. Results also show that school leaders who stay up to date through self-learning strategies, prefer online learning (resources, activities, courses) and use technology more intensively. Learning ecologies proved to be a useful framework for the analysis of the professional development strategies of school leaders. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to analyse a didactic and innovative experience and to reflect on its implications within the frame of learning ecologies. We will be describing how a Spanish Language and Literature Secondary school teacher transforms and enriches his educational practices while fostering new learning formats outside the physical classroom. In this case, the use of theatre makes sense as a potentially pedagogical tool together with the social network TikTok, the latter becoming a virtual environment offering new educational opportunities. A qualitative methodology based on observation and document analysis was used for this purpose, allowing us to gain a deep understanding of the object of study, its educational reality and its implications from the perspective of learning ecologies. Results show the value of long-life learning experiences, both for the teacher and for the participants, together with the impact on their identities. There is an evident need to use ICT resources such as TikTok in the classroom. These resources may encourage learning experiences, consistent with the sociocultural needs of the individuals, fostering curriculum enrichment, and stimulating a comprehensive and expanded idea of education in all levels. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper evaluates the presence of contents related to the ecological transition and the climate emergency in the Tourism degrees in Andalusia. To this end, the curricula, programs and teaching projects of the subjects were compiled and the competences and contents were analyzed. Finally, global and specific results (by universities or departments) have been obtained. The results show a limited presence of related contents and the absence of emerging concepts about global challenges and new patterns of tourism development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Tourism is an eminently visual sector, which encourages destinations to work on generating seductive representations to attract potential visitors. This paper analyses how heritage has been incorporated into the construction of the Andalusian induced image in recent decades, developing a semiotic analysis of the representations projected in the promotional material. Through this, it emerges that this image is the inheritance of the universal identity of the region built during Romanticism, in which the elements of its Arab past prevail. Finally, the study provides that territories that have a consolidated universal image, in which heritage plays a fundamental role, they use it to form their induced image due to its easy international recognition. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

With the use of the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) boom and a new scenario in which urban areas are beyond rural ones in terms of demographic size, new needs emerged, and with them new urban and economic models, such as Smart Cities, Smart Destinations, or Smart Tourism. This paper aims to establish a holistic definition of those concepts, deepening in the smartness model applied to a tourism destination, through a literature review that allows clarifying the beginning, the evolution, and the current situation of those concepts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this paper is to identify the main determinants conditioning supply and demand in health tourism based on systems theory. An empirical analysis of medical tourism, wellness tourism and medical wellness tourism in the Province of Alicante is carried out, applying the aforementioned approach. Methodologically, the work is based on the task to systematize the existing Anglo-German literature on the subject that has not been translated into Spanish. The relevance of this article lies in the novelty of the methodological approach and its application to health tourism as well as its application to a consolidated tourist area, such as the Province of Alicante, where this modality is established and has been working for decades. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The role of the Associations of Friends of the Camino de Santiago is virtually unknown in research into the pilgrimage to Santiago. Their function is crucial for understanding the modern-day recovery of the Camino, its international fame and the conservation of many of the unique features along the way. In this paper, based on surveys and interviews, we analyse their current vision of the pilgrimage as well as their relations with public administrations and the Church. Their work, in direct contact with the pilgrims, means that they have a good knowledge of their needs, developing actions to support and guide the wayfarer. However, they are often not taken into account by the institutions that manage the Jacobean itineraries. We conclude by stating that the importance of these associations is fundamental for maintaining the dynamics of the route and that some obstacles must be overcome in order to maintain the central place they occupy in the Jacobean world. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The use of digital technologies has incorporated new reflection elements to approach the problem of mathematics learning since these tools can uncover elements that could be hidden when students use pencil and paper to solve problems. For instance, to describe how the volume of a liquid in a container changes when the height of that liquid is modified requires the student to imagine how the change occurs. However, with the use of digital technologies, the student can visualize such variation and focus his attention on other important aspects such as the rates of change or the way in which that change occurs. In this paper we report some results from a study conducted with a group of students that used GeoGebra to approach mathematical tasks aimed at exploring students' understanding regarding functional relations derived from sketching graphs that describe volume as a function of the height of a liquid in a container. The tasks were solved by first semester students of a Bachelor Degree program in mathematics at a Mexican Public University. Collected data were analysed from a socioconstructivist epistemological perspective as well as a didactical view that privileges mathematical understanding through problem solving. The analysis units were the reasoning sequences developed by the students. The systematic use of technology fostered a development of students' conceptual structures of quantitative and qualitative types. We also identified some limitations of the tool to promote the organization of ideas, especially those that refer to the concavity of the sketched graphs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents the partial results of a research project developed over two academic years (2015-16 and 2016-17) in the Faculties of Education and Teacher Training at the Universities of Cantabria and Oviedo. The objective of the project was to improve teaching in several subjects from different curricula in the field of education, based on the analysis of classroom activities. To this end, a methodology inspired by the Lesson Study model was adopted. The results show that students learn through the use of skills which are considered key for teachers. The conclusions demonstrate that the research process has great potential for improving teaching in higher education and highlight the need for students to assume a more active role throughout the whole research process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of the present paper is to analyse the state of Medical Spanish in two monolingual dictionaries (Dictionary of the Spanish Language of RAE and Dictionary of Spanish Use by María Moliner). Moreover, the entries will be compared in two other medical dictionaries which are available on-line (Diccionario médico-biológico, histórico y etimológico and the dictionary of PortalesMedicos). The object of this study are thirty definitions related to semantic field of sports massage: the focus of research will be also on studying the occurrance of the terms of corpus and whether the entries have labels and what kinds of them (of medicine, biology, physiotherapy or others). The result of the carried-out research is that definitions from corpus not always meet one of the fundamental principle of the scientific language -- to be monosemous. Using the labels in the analysed field is inconsistent and diverse. Neither physiotherapy nor medicine are the most often occurring labels. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study sets out to determine the extent to which socalled "artificial Edens" were present in the literary works of Joaquín Dicenta and how they manifested in the bohemian life attributed to this author. One of the key pieces when analysing this question will be El Crimen de Ayer (1908), in which the author recreates the bohemian lifestyle of French literato Henry Murger, adapting it to the modern vices of his contemporary age. A modernity in which ether was quaffed in elegant cosmopolitan cocktails, and opium was carried in little glass phials. All these scenes are portrayed in Dicenta's novel, who also refers, in other works, to the effects of consuming ether and opium in men and women. Furthermore, this paper seeks to ascertain the extent to which Joaquín Dicenta was in tune with that modernity when he talks about these drugs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Within the research on reception of Medea in Literature and Art, this paper studies the play Medea Redux, a recreation of Euripides' Medea by the controversial American playwright Neil Labute (1999). Through a comparative analysis between Labute's and Euripides' texts, the procedures followed by Labute to 'appropriate' the ancient mythos are studied, in order to conclude on the aspects that interest the modern author and on the areas in which he innovates. This is done both in terms of the mythical story itself and the characters, and in terms of the elimination or conservation of certain formal aspects of the ancient tragedy. A connection is also established between Labute's theatre (in Medea Redux but also in Helter Skelter, a 2008 play also inspired by the Greek Medea) and the moral background of the Euripidean Tragedy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the Spanish-speaking community, there is currently an increasing awareness of the diversity of existing norms in Spanish. The new RAE and ASALE policy, which is pan-Hispanic in nature and defends the polycentricity of the language, points in this direction. The recurring question about which Spanish to teach and the proper integration of geolectal varieties in SFL curricula continue to be discussed by specialists. However, not yet all the actors participating in the teaching-learning process are equally aware of this plurinormative character of Spanish and may be unconscious transmitters of erroneous linguistic ideologies. The study of the students' linguistic attitudes and beliefs towards the geographical varieties of Spanish, especially in a heteroglossic context, such as Taiwanese, can guide us on how this teaching work is being carried out. In this paper, we present an approach to the linguistic beliefs and attitudes of Taiwanese university students of SFL based on the concept of linguistic prestige. To do this, we start from a mentalist conception of attitudes and develop a qualitative research based on interviews and discussion groups. This research registered a majority positive attitude towards the Castilian variety and generally negative attitudes towards the other varieties, both European and American. These attitudes are based on series of erroneous beliefs and prejudices that seem to be being transmitted by the academic community. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, an analysis of the morphological and semantic behaviour of the English formant-exit is presented. This apheresis, whose origin is located in the term Brexit, seems to have become a productive element for word creation. Therefore, the objective of this work is to find out it this element also has the same capacity in Spanish, in particular, in journalistic language. The conclusions are that-exit does have a presence in neologisms in the Spanish press mainly for expressive purposes. The semantic value acquired in Spanish is 'exit of x from an institution or organization', but especially with a negative nuance 'abrupt, drastic, unilateral exit'. Its morphological behaviour places this element, like others such as-gate or-landia, at the limit between formation processes and therefore it seems more accurate to call it a suffixoid. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present study focuses on false friends-words with a similar form but different meanings--in both English and Spanish. Eight pairs of false friends have been analysed, paying special attention to their etymologies and their semantic derivations produced from their common etyma up to their current definitions in each language. The selected terms are some lesser studied forms, due to their less frequent useor to their dealing with a taboo meaning. In addition, with help of etymological dictionaries, these forms are presented from a diachronic perspective, scarcely studied and barely resorted to in language teaching traditionally. Nevertheless, in this paper it is argued that the diachronic approach is the best way to understand these words synchronically and hence it is desirable to avoid their study by heart in form of lists. In the search for a link between both languages, an explanation for the meanings of these words has been found, and with it, a significant method by which to make an easier and more effective acquisition orlearning. Our purpose is that this outline can help those researchers that in the future intend to work in these new alternatives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Sex, porn and video games are cultural elements of great importance and consumption. Additionally, a critical and artistic movement called post-porn has emerged in recent years and seeks to create new forms of experimenting sexual pleasure as well as non-normative porn in order to visibilize and empower both women and sexual minorities. The present paper aims to explore the intersection between sex and porn with video games, spaces historically conceived for male use. To that end, we provide an overview of the representation of sex and we analyze if there are examples of works that could be considered post-pornographic in video games. We conclude that the presentation of sex in this medium is still cisheterocentric and catering to the male gaze but that the existence of some post-pornographic practices illustrates the potential that video games have to dismantle gender and sexual stereotypes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper addresses the Castilian lanza, making a proposal on its origin, and reveals our stance on an underlying issue regarding this topic: it has been discussed by many Historians from different perspectives that, far from removing all doubt, have generated some confusion. One of these is the time frame. While the available data allow to determine a specific point in time for the emergence of the lanza in Castile, some authors have formulated different hypotheses as a result of either tracking semantic records in all kinds of texts -mainly literary-or following evidence in a military-organizational context. Another research line, also military-related, has been focused on finding equivalents in other late medieval European territories. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This work raises the possibilities of study offered by the repartimientos to deepen into the knowledge of the Andalusian fanādiq, the Castilian alhóndigas, and the Aragonese alfondechs. The repartimientos information found for the cities of Valencia, Murcia, and Seville, have been deeply analyzed. The aim is to identify the alhóndigas and the alfondechs of these cities to approach to the fanādiq of al-Andalus through the quantification, location and characteristics gathered. In this paper, after a brief presentation of the repartimiento system and its characteristics, we focus and develop the relationship between these three types of buildings. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this paper is to study the role of music and entertainment at the Court of the kings of Aragon. For this purpose, we analyse the Ordenacions de la Casa i Cort, a normative text commissioned by King Pedro the Ceremonious and consider the phases of composition of this text and the rules relating to the musicians and singers of the Royal Chapel to consider the reasons for the differences that can be observed between text and practice, and how these are reflected in the archival documents. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

By considering in the first place Rodrigo of Cerrato's hagiographic compilation, this paper aims to analyze the Commemoratio Anuntiationis and the representation of Ildephonsus of Toledo, the saint to whom the creation of this Marian celebration is ascribed. In connection with the Vitae sanctorum, we will also take into account other compilations, both in Latin and Romance languages, in order to find their sources, their combination and inclusion into the text, as well as the different ways they are handled in each case. This will contribute to verify the continuity of this visgothic Marian feast up to 13th century as well as to show the hesitations regarding its aim. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Dry rivers (ramblas) are ecosystems of great relevance in the Segura Basin due to the extent they occupy. These ecosystems harbour plant communities characterized by the diversity and unique ness of the species that make it up. The objective of this paper is to analyze the biological traits that characterize these communities and relate them to its capacity to provide ecosystem services to society. The results obtained indicate that the plant communities of these ecosystems present clearly terrestrial and xerophilous biological traits with a dominance of phanerophytic and camephytic forms, with various adaptations to drought and a total absence of helophyte species. Furthermore, more than 90% of the species studied provide some ecosystem service. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper offers some evidences about the circulation of capital between Venezuela and Spain at the end of the eighteenth century through the case study of the Spanish merchant Esteban González de Linares (1751-1802). Our sources are private nature: an accounting book and 335 letters. These documents show a wide variety of channels to the transfer of capitals from Venezuela to Spain, both at large operations and small deliveries. González de Linares became, during his stay in Caracas (1785-1791), an important agent in the transfer of savings from the colony. The scarcity of silver and gold in Venezuela during this period justifies that the transfer of capital did promote the export of groceries (cocoa, indigo) and the development of financial markets (orders and bills of exchange). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

INTRODUCTION. This study, which is framed within the HISREDUC Project, presents the results obtained following an intervention with 15-year-old secondary education History students. METHOD. The aim of this paper is the development of two main concepts related to historical thinking (use of evidence and historical significance) through the use of a digital learning environment over seven sessions. 53 students participated and the curricular framework used was the Spanish transition to democracy. The level of progression related to both concepts is examined through a qualitative method which compared the perceived proficiency level before and after the use of the digital learning environment. RESULTS. The results allow to identify common patterns related to students' abilities, showing a positive progression related to the use of evidence and historical significance. DISCUSSION. It can be concluded that this intervention reinforced and helped made explicit latent capabilities, allowing their use in the analysis of the past. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper reports the production of a group book about gender perspectives. Nowadays, the image of women in massmedia tends to be manipulated and this contributes to the dissemination of a misleading and false image of women's identity. Future teachers should be especially conscious of this situation so that they do not become passive consumers of publicity. This project aims to offer students mechanisms for criticism and reflection to counteract a situation which in the 21st century should be simply unacceptable. Our goal is that our students reflect critically about the role of women in society by means of a collaborative action which this article explains in detail. The capacity of Art to provide images that elicit emotions allows us to reach our aims. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present paper carries out a criticaldescriptive analysis of the evolution of education in values experienced in the Spanish education system. This type of education is looked at through transversal topics of discussion and the development of the competences included in the current legislation, all within the framework of inclusive schools as an alternative to the integrative school. Also, the social projection of education in values present in the schools is described, advocating for the promotion of proper coexistence and peaceful conflict resolution, all within an integral and harmonious development of children and adolescents at a personal and social level. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper was written as it was felt there was a need to create a simple but exhaustive system of assessment to evaluate the narrative skills of students doing Spanish as a foreign language and those studying it as their mother tongue. The main aim of this paper is to create and appraise a model capable of producing and evaluating written and oral skills of Italian B2 level students learning Spanish as a foreign language and Spanish students studying Spanish as part of their B2 level curriculum. What distinguishes this paper is its innovative semiotic approach which crossfertilizes the relationships between cinema and literature. Although two different narrative techniques are employed, these two elements develop the same semantic reference. Another original feature is that this study is not based on a simple comparison between the two genres but rather on the correlation between them. To this extend, a model called C.O.E.N was created. This didactic model concentrates on oral and written competency in Hispanic texts which can be evaluated once students learning Spanish as a second language have reached a B2 level, but also on mother tongue Spanish students who have reached the same level. This method links production and evaluation of oral and written competency in narrative texts. Due to length restrictions, this paper presents only the results of the analysis of Spanish learners' written productions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The following paper consists of the translation analysis of a literary work based on the study of the transference of the neologisms used in it. The chosen author is George Orwell, one of the geniuses of narrative of the 20th century and composer of some of the most relevant novels in the history of literature. We have selected the work 1984 to develop this paper, the masterpiece of Orwell's bibliography. The study has been completed by comparing the original version of the novel (written in the English language and published by Penguin) and two Spanish target texts, translated by Rafael Vázquez Zamora and Miguel Temprano García, published by Austral and Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial respectively. These two texts have been selected due to the different options used by the translators to transfer the lexicogenic elements designed by the author. The diverse chosen examples will be exposed in their original as well as in their translated form, inserted in their contexts of origin, and they will be analyzed using a contrastive method. Conclusions will be shown later about the functionality of the innovative concepts and words conceived by this writer in the new language and the morphology that these new manifestations adopt in the new context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyses the main female characters of the newspaper comic strip Terry and the Pirates by Milton Caniff, from the point of view of their assimilation with the female archetypes of classic cinema, mainly from the 30s and 40s of the 20th century. Initially, the introduction comments the features of the series and the objectives of the article. Then, the paper is divided into four sections corresponding to the four feminine archetypes analysed by Nuria Bou in his book Diosas y tumbas. Mitos femeninos en el cine de Hollywood. Each of these archetypes correspond to an important female character of Caniff's work, at least during a significant period during the twelve years that he was the artist of series, between 1934 and 1946. This is an analysis of the relationship between the classic cinema and the classic comic strip, an aspect that has not been considered in the literature, from a gender perspective. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Recent theoretical and methodological postulates in the field of foreign language teaching point to language mediation as a "fifth skill". It is, therefore, an integrated skill that must be developed in students as well as reception and production skills, if we are to create not only linguistically competent speakers, but also social agents who know how to deal with in various intercultural contexts. In this paper, we intend to address the pedagogical effectiveness of linguistic mediation in the teaching of Spanish as a foreign language (ELE), making a contribution to the evaluation process of a task of oral linguistic mediation between related languages (Spanish-Italian) in the field of secondary and university education. Thus, after providing a theoretical and methodological framework regarding the development of the mediation activity, we will elaborate a suitable pattern to evaluate the student's performance [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the last decades, it has been revealed that semantic categories are flexible and that they evolve constantly. The aim of this paper is to explore how the polisemy of the verb llevar is structured. For this purpose, our study is based on the parameters of the diachronic prototype semantics proposed by Geeraerts (1997), who place the keys to explain the configuration of lexical polisemy in the diachrony. Therefore, we have carried out a historical study of the verb llevar thanks to the analysis of a corpus taken from the CORDE. The results are analysed, on one hand, from a quantitative perspective, in order to show the age and the frequency of each meaning of the verb llevar. On the other hand, from a qualitative perspective, each semantic change that llevar has experienced throughout its history are described on the basis of the examples of our corpus. In order to describe the semantic changes, we will also use other tools from cognitive semantics, such us the image schema theory and the conceptual metaphor theory. All this leads to demonstrate that the current polisemy of llevar is the result of a historical process of semasiological expansion from one central or prototypical meaning [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper deals with the difficulties of the humour teaching-learning process within the educational context of teaching Spanish as a foreign language (SFL). This aspect is essential in the full progress of the pragmatic competence and it is a fundamental component of the communicative competence that the student of a foreign language (FL) or a second language (L2) must be able to develop. Therefore, we will analize what are the problems that underlie the didactic units which have been developed in order to determine the main keys to reach a satisfactory humoristic didactic unit. Moreover, a stand-up comedy didactic unit will be proposed and the results that this didactic unit has obtained in the SFL class will be commented. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, on the basis of the Conventional Figurative Language Theory of Dobrovol'skij and Piirainen (2005), we focus on the symbolic background in the metaphorical use of the figure of the mandarin duck, and the traces of its symbolisms in the figurative expressions, from a linguo-cultural perspective. First, we collect a sample of idioms and verses from ancient poems related to the mandarin duck; then we organize and classify these data according to their symbolisms reflected in the idioms and figurative expressions which are subsequently analyzed semantically and culturally. This study demonstrates the productivity of the mandarin duck image, reflecting its particular cultural connotations in the Chinese language. In this way, this investigation provides reference materials which may facilitate learning, teaching and translation of Chinese, as well as intercultural communication. Besides, it also contributes to a better understanding of the interaction between language and culture in general, and between phraseology and culture in particular. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents a comparative study between two divorce decrees issued in Spain and Morocco with descriptive and translation purposes of approaching to the translational complexity of these type of texts. For this, on first place, a short textual-typological and functional comparison of these kind of normative constructs will be given. Then, the macrostructure of the selected decrees will be analyzed to identify and highlight the similarities and the differences between them. All this by applying the theoretical and methodological bases of contrastive textology [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to offer an analysis of the morphology of a very specific kind of idiomatic words: three loanwords from English that survive inserted in Spanish idioms. To do this, we will first define the concepts of "idiomatic word", "loanword" and "loanword from English", and then we clarify the methodological procedures to compile this kind of words in two dictionaries of Spanish -DLE and DEA. This will be helped by the special lexicographic treatment that due to its characteristics these words receive. We limit ourselves to the phraseological units that we know as idioms. We will carry out a morphological analysis of these words, focusing on the graphical, phonological, and morphological adaptations that these words have undergone in their acquisition process in Spanish -in this way, we will be able to observe the type of acclimatization in Spanish and the formal characteristics that they maintain as a signifier. Their idioms will be be also documented to check their use in Spanish. After our analysis, we can conclude that one of the main features of the loanwords from English in Spanish idioms is their maintenance in Spanish as non-adapted foreign words, as their graphical, phonetical, and morphological features demonstrate. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introduction: In this study, the categories "paper reading", "screen reading" and "ways of reading" were analyzed through the words of teachers who belong to different disciplines and headquarters of the Universidad Nacional del Comahue (UNCo), Patagonia, Argentina. Method: For this study, part of a major investigation carried out within the framework of a doctoral thesis in Education, the constant comparative method was used, and qualitative data from semi-structured interviews with teachers, conducted during the 2014-2017 period, were analyzed. Objective: The main objective was to determine the representations of UNCo lectures regarding screen reading and their relationship with the task of teaching at university. Results: Concerning results, on the one hand, it was observed that the ratings on screen reading were different when the focus was shifted from the task of teaching to research. On the other hand, there were several changes in the ways of reading and teaching, although it was admitted that these do not always lead to profound transformations in education. Conclusion: The main conclusion was that, in certain situations, it seems that the so-called "new" technologies have demolished several walls, allowing for more extensive and open ways of teaching, but at the same time, it is noted that new walls have been erected, some of which only reproduce old pedagogical models. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Since the end of the last century, the development of new trends and tourism consumption models has allowed the proliferation of tourist equipment in Extremadura, exploiting the heritage resources, both natural and cultural. In this paper, supply and demand of tourist sector in Extremadura are analyzed, emphasizing the classification by Tourist Territories of the regional government. For this, economic, social and patrimonial variables are studied through the Multiple Linear Regression statistic (OLS), Principal Components Analysis (PCA)and Geographic Information Systems (GIS). It will be seen what Tourist Territories have implemented better strategies intend to reception of visitors, the increase of economic rents and the preservation of the population in rural areas, as well as which ones present deficiencies in their tourist development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Storytelling as strategy to transmit values and identity of a brand has acquired relevance during the last years. However, this concept is already relatively underdeveloped in academic literature on tourism destinations. This paper aims to analyze storytelling potentialities and use in a tourism destination trough traditional stories. Legends of the city of Girona (Spain) have been chosen as a case study. Results demonstrated that legends of the city have the potential to develop a storytelling strategy, but this potential is not used properly. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The requirement of a sustainable management of the historical heritage sites demands the design of management control models that contemplate the particularities of those sites, beyond the architectural ones. The goal of this paper is the design of a holistic, contingent and integrator model to be used by the public and/or private managers for the sustainable management. To achieve this, a thorough bibliographic review of the specialized literature has been carried out. This model does not pretend to be universal but rather a point of reference for its adaptation to the particularities of each site. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Wine tourism is a growing economic activity in Castilla y León. More and more people are interested in knowing the ins and outs of the world of wine, so wine is becoming one of the pillars of rural development in the plains of the Duero. In order to achieve this key role in the territory, this activity has had to adapt to changes in the tastes of consumers and, especially, to faster and more direct new forms of communication. This paper aims to outlook the existing situation in the wineries of Castilla y León in the field of new technologies and, especially, of websites and social networks, two key tools for the development of wine tourism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper seeks to explore the current state of agritourism in Spain by taking a supplyside perspective. Following on from a theoretical-conceptual analysis of agritourism, the presence of this activity within the Spanish legal-administrative framework and the provisions made for it therein are examined, and its territorial distribution within Spain is described. Despite the existence of a tourism framework that is apparently favourable to agritourism, given current trends in tourism demand and Spain's great potential for tourism, the level of development and implementation of agritourism in Spain is not as advanced as that in other European countries. The recognition of agritourism and, consequently, the development of an identity that is distinct from that of other types of tourism have not, as yet, been adequately addressed in Spain. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In recent years, the Region of Murcia has promoted new tourism models related to heritage and the sea. However, despite the richness of its maritime history and heritage, it has not done so in a complementary manner. The Mar Menor-La Manga area has only boosted the maritime aspect in relation to nautical activities, leaving their heritage relegated to a second place. This paper seeks to vindicate the importance of the Maritime Heritage, History, and Culture associated with this area and to show the opportunities offered by its proper enhancement through a case study: the implementation of an underwater heritage trail in the Phoenician wreck of the "Bajo de la Campana" as part of the "Isla Grosa" Project. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]