This paper presents a series of experiments that tested the usefulness of teaching Spanish mood using an approach to Cognitive Grammar specifically developed for the foreign language classroom:Operational Grammar.Mood selection is one of the most difficult aspects of learning Spanish as a FL, and it is one of the last features acquired. It is unquestionably complex, involving issues of subordination, alternation, and speaker’s communicative intent. This complexity has been amplified by the traditional approach to mood, which has changed little over the last 50 years. The alternative presented here sees language as a symbolic representation of the speaker’s mental model of the world. Grammar is closely linked to this model as the tool used in class to help learners communicate meaning through form. This enables them to understand how native speakers choose to communicate. Language, then, portrays an outcome of the speaker’s own selection, guided by communicative intent and not as part of a taxonomic set of rules. The empirical study showed that the combination of a cognitive approach to mood with a Processing Instruction methodology had positive effects on how the students identified mood selection in both input and output learning situations.
Have the women leaders of 2020 been better equipped to deal with the pandemic, its impact,consequences and even the new spikes the world is seeing right now? Studies that havecompared the performance of countries with similar sociodemographic and economic characteristics haveshown that female-led countries have performed better (especially in terms of deaths) than the nearestcountry - nay, even the two, three and five nearest countries. Despite any beliefs or sympathies one may or may not have towards claims of the success ofwomen leaders, the lens of language can add new insights into the narratives of leadership and a risingpolitics of kindness and inclusivity that seems to be championed mostly by women. We have looked at themessages conveyed by the linguistic choices and language use of those in power, and have found thatthere is a direct a-to-b correlation between a) a narrative that includes the citizens as part of the solution,and b) the success of the policies put in place to undermine the effects of the pandemic, which includesthe population’s general response, regardless of the gender of the leader who makes use of such language.
Verba Hispanica cumple treinta ediciones. Esta trigésima edición, cuya orientación temática propuesta y anunciada en febrero pasado gira en torno a la Manipulación, Persuasión y Discurso, trae a colación la manipulación lingüística desde muy variadas perspectivas: la sociológica, bien política o mediática, que es la que mayor eco ha tenido por parte de las contribuciones, la léxica, la del análisis del discurso, la pragmática, la multimodal, y también la metafórica, cubriendo todas ellas aspectos y consideraciones histórico-culturales. Junto al análisis del discurso de la prensa tienen fuerte presencia, como no podía ser de otra manera en nuestro actual universo digitalizado, las redes sociales. Igualmente, y sin que haya mediado acción alguna por parte de quienes firmamos esta introducción, dos temas sobresalen en el contenido de los artículos aquí incluidos: discurso político, especialmente el comúnmente denominado conservador, y reacciones (a menudo violentas) ante el feminismo. Los artículos aquí compilados contribuyen a darnos una visión crítica e informada de las narrativas sociales que imperan y proliferan tanto en la prensa que leemos, como en los medios de comunicación y agentes discursivos que elegimos (o no) seguir. Es la intención de este volumen ofrecer a los lectores perspectivas de pensamiento desde el análisis del discurso en temas como la política, el feminismo, los nacionalismos o la inclusividad. El presente número quiere ser también un homenaje a los primeros esfuerzos para apuntalar la Filología Hispánica en la Universidad de Ljubljana, de la mano del querido y ya legendario prof. Skubic en 1981.
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