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The infant death has been, in the West, one of the main themes of lyrical poetry. And one of the motifs of this theme is the empty cradle, whose main discursive resource is the euphemistic circumlocution. In this article, we will first tour the poetry of infant death from the Golden Age to the twentieth century. Secondly, we will place the empty crib motif within the attenuation of pain caused by the death of a child. This goal is pursued by the culture of kitsch advocated by the bourgeoisie of the second half of the nineteenth century. The most important poetic expressions of the empty cradle motif, which boomed in the post-Romanticism, are also identified in this article. We end with a discussion of two known poems that express this motif, "The Empty Cradle" by Jose Selgas, and "Sweet Dream" by Rosalia de Castro. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article explains the contributions published and shared since 1975 about the narrator, in the field of narratology. Mister Enrique Margery published, in the first issue of the Revista de Filología y Lingüística (May 1, 1975) his article "Thoughts on the Issue of the Narrator", where he explained the narratology's interpretation so far on the figure of the narrator in the 20th Century. Since then, proposals both complementary and alternative have appeared -or circulated among the Spanish and Latin American critics. These alternative proposals are at the core of this article: Norman Friedman's proposal, Gérard Genette's systematization, Bakhtin's polyphony, the several modalities of paradoxical narration, the role and status of the narrator in the film discourse and the viewer's participation in the building of the narrative act and in the forming of a semantically-coherent narration. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In both Costumbrist articles and Modernist chronicles, the enunciator themalizes the difficult relation that he as a writer has with the journalistic firm that he works for. Various motifs are used: the difficult search for a writing topic (blank page crisis), the tight deadlines for handing in texts, the awareness of writing from stereotypical schemes, the obligation of serving the interests of the chief editor or the reader. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

As historiographic terms, the relationship between Generation of 98 and Modernism has experienced several changes troughout the XX century. During the first half of the century these terms were treated as antagonistic by Spanish historiographers. Literary critics as Azorín himself, Pedro Salinas, or Guillermo Díaz Plaja contributed to establish this distinction. Nevertheless, since the second half of the XX century a Modernist interpretation of Generation of 98 texts has been advanced. Likewise, in the last decades of the century, Generation of 98 as well as Modernism have been incorporated to the aesthetic concerns of the Turn of the Century. With this term their contributions to the Western aesthetic tendencies of late XIX century and early XX century are better appreciated. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Letters to the editor is a modality of participative journalism that allows the establishment of communicative bonds among readers, media and other actors of the public space of discussion. In this article an analysis of Letters to the column of La Nación is made from the pragmatic theory of the speech acts. Interest is centered in establishing the intentions of the readers who send these messages to the newspaper. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article analyzes different descriptive methods used in several articles that present social types seen in latinamerican literature of manners. The literary category known as 'social type' is defined as well as the role of the physiological discourse within its definition. Besides this article explores the ideological implications that contribute to the development of social types taking into account Western cultural practices seen at the beginning of the 19th Century. In addition, generic conventions of social types and finally some latinamerican articles from the 19th century are analyzed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Rooted in the satire of the Grecolatin Antiguity, the panoramic pint of view is a typical convention of the literary, artistic and scientific discourses of the first half of IXI century Europe. This approach has different functions: it provokes either a critical distance facing the observed reality or a proud identification with society. This article then analyses the use of literature of manners and realism in Spanish literature taking into account authors such as Mariano José de Larra and Mesonero Romanos and the first chapter of Leopoldo Alas "Clarín" La Regenta. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article we analyze the fallacies in the radiophonic sermon "El diezmo" of Father Minor de Jesús Calvo, based on classical logic classifications. Moreover, we discuss theoretical and methodological principles of non formal logic and textual typology with the purpose of encouraging the interest in the research of argumentation from a pragmatics and discourse analysis perspective. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article analyses the different functions that the metaphors carry out in the speech of political actors, such as the government, political parties, social movements and the media. The most common are the warlike ones, the sport ones and the game ones. Also, it argues on the wide use of other semantic figures in the political speech: the sinecdoque, the personification... [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article analyzes the informative photography of the political conflicts. The chosen subject of the study is the discourse proposal of La Nación, regarding the recent educator strike, wich took place between May and June of 2003. The investigation is based not only on the product, the published photographs, but also on the productive factors that limit the performance of the graphic reporter. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this article is to present a theorical and methodological itinerary of the frame concept in the sphere of mass communication research. The textual frames, in other words, the perspectives about social experiences presented in vocabularies and specific arguments, have been utilized in a productive manner in the critic (cultural studies) and administrative traditions to diagnose the visibility regime that the social actors discourses obtain from journalistic enterprises. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]