Browsing by Subject "Colocaciones"

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    Métaphysique des tubes d’Amélie Nothomb: une vie racontée à travers l’intensité linguistique
    (Universidad de Murcia, Servicio de Publicaciones., 2019) Crespi, Patrizia
    Abstract: Reading a book of the belgian writer Amélie Nothomb is an act of passion and dedication: through her characteristic style, filled with rhetorical images that she perfectly masters, the reader plunges into a nice and immoderate atmosphere in which reality merges with exaggeration. This is mostly referred to her autobiographical novels: in Métaphysique des Tubes The Character of Rain ) she travels through times and memories to give us a recollection of her first three years of living. By applying in this book to the point of view of a child, the author let the reader feel the same sensations as the main character, thanks to the accuracy of a precise syntax, where the speech is filled with intensification methods, becoming an implicit network underlying the main history, being by definition the real outline of the description of reality. Intensity is, in Nothomb’s book, a stylistic and narrative necessity, revealing its creative force through many lexical forms that we aim to identify and categorise in this article.
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    Observaciones sobre la expresión colocacional de la intensidad en "Beuve de Hamptone".
    (Universidad de Murcia, Servicio de Publicaciones, 2019) Blanco Escoda, Xavier
    Basing on examples from the anglo-norman chanson de geste Beuve de Hampton, this paper emphasizes the importance of analysing the collocational expression of intensity in Old French. On the one hand, we observe the tendency of Modern French translations to massively introduce intensive collocations that are absent in the original text. On the other hand, we present and comment many examples of adjectival, adverbial and verbal collocations in Old French, as well usual and widespread collocations as idiosyncratic ones. We point out how the choice of certain collocatives allows to characterize an author’s style.
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    Paving the road to hell: The Spanish word menas as a case study
    (Universidad de Murcia. Servicio de Publicaciones, ) Bordonaba Plou, David; Torices, José R.
    Menas is a term that has attracted a great deal of attention on the political scene in Spain at present. Although the term had a neutral usage originally, being an acronym for unaccompanied foreign minors, it has recently evolved into a term with clear negative connotations. This article explores what kind of term menas is today. Specifically, we will examine whether menas is a slur or an ESTI, an ethnic/social term used as an insult. First, we point out the most defining characteristics of both types of terms. Then, using analyses on linguistic corpora, we show that menas exhibits the most defining characteristics of ESTIs. We end by discussing the possible evolution of the term, pointing out that, although the term presents the features related to ESTIs, there are two possible scenarios. On the one hand, the term may retain its neutral uses and thus remain an ESTI. On the other hand, the neutral uses may disappear, and thus the term may become a slur.
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    Tratamiento de la combinatoria léxica en documentos de referencia y curriculares: el caso del MCER y del PCIC
    (2016-01-15) Pérez Serrano, Mercedes
    En este artículo tenemos como objetivo analizar y discutir cómo el Marco Común Europeo de Referencia y el Plan Curricular del Instituto Cervantes tratan la combinatoria léxica, y en particular las colocaciones dentro del conjunto de las unidades léxicas. Averiguar las pistas que se dan sobre este aspecto en los documentos de referencia y curriculares resulta de especial interés porque son los documentos más manejados por profesores, evaluadores y creadores de materiales y las indicaciones que en ellos se ofrecen tienen una gran repercusión en las creencias de comunidad educativa. De la lectura detallada de estos documentos se desprende que en el MCER no se da un tratamiento sistemático o riguroso a las colocaciones léxicas y que la idiomaticidad se atribuye a los niveles de dominio más avanzados. En el PCIC vemos que, si bien se opta por una forma determinada de presentar las colocaciones léxicas en el inventario, a lo largo del mismo se cae en algunas incongruencias.