Lunfardo, Argentina's Unknown Tongue

Grayson, John D.

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“…In other cases, exercises were not included in the materials that followed the lists. In one such list, “Short selection of current lunfardo ,” the largest section dealt with vesre (Excerpt 3), which consists of swapping the order of the syllables in a word (as in an anagram), such as feca for café (Grayson, ), and a second list with longer lunfardo expressions that included comparisons and sayings. The range of expressions in these sections was very wide, including fairly innocuous expressions such as largo como esperanza de pobre for “long as a poor man's hope,” to very vulgar ones such as desubicado como chupete en el or** for “out of line/tactless” [literally, “out of place like a pacifier in the a**”].…”

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“I think I sound stupid if I try to use those words”: The role of metapragmatic awareness in the study abroad language classroom

Fernández

2018

Foreign Language Annals

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This study investigates the instructional treatment of Argentine Spanish vernacular (i.e., lunfardo), metapragmatic information about its use provided by instructors, and participants’ metapragmatic awareness of vernacular use in a second language (L2) Spanish study abroad (SA) classroom. The participants were 12 American undergraduate students taking Spanish courses at an SA institute in Argentina. The educators were eight university‐level instructors who were native speakers of Argentine Spanish. The analysis triangulates data from classroom observations, classroom materials, a language awareness test, and semi‐structured interviews with the participants. The results indicate that although the L2 instructors provided instruction on the use of vernacular, they appeared to do so without providing sufficient metapragmatic information for the students to understand and use vernacular competently in interactions with locals. The significance of a pedagogical focus on vernacular that begins predeparture and encourages active student participation is discussed.

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“I think I sound stupid if I try to use those words”: The role of metapragmatic awareness in the study abroad language classroom

Fernández

2018

Foreign Language Annals

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“…11 Derived from the idiomatic expression "darse manija" (to think insistently about a worrying topic) belonging to a variety of Argentine Spanish slang known as lunfardo -the colloquial vocabulary emerged in early 20 th century, which combined the language used by Italian immigrants, marginal and criminal groups, and the gaucho jargon (Grayson, 1964;Gottero, 2006;Conde, 2010Conde, , 2011. In terms of the asymmetrical power relationships between source and target cultures, it may be interesting to note that in the translation, this spe-…”

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Translating Metonymies of the Incarcerated Female Self in Pasos bajo el agua/Steps Under Water, by Argentine Writer Alicia Kozameh

Yañez

2020

Mutatis Mutandis

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Mediante un estudio de caso, este artículo aborda el potencial evocativo de la metonimia en la traducción para reposicionar las subjetividades femeninas en otra lengua y cultura desde una perspectiva transnacional de la traducción feminista. En el campo literario, la metonimia se define como una figura retórica mediante la cual un término se emplea para evocar una serie de asociaciones culturales que se encuentran íntimamente vinculadas a la experiencia. El artículo persigue dos objetivos: (1) analizar el rol de la metonimia en la traducción para observar la recreación y reconfiguración de la compleja red de relaciones de poder en el texto feminista; y (2) examinar aspectos geopolíticos de la traducción en torno a las relaciones de poder instauradas en la traducción de un texto argentino escrito en español al inglés. Para ello, se estudia la traducción de metonimias específicas que revelan la condición femenina encarcelada en Pasos bajo el agua (1987), un relato testimonial sobre la última dictadura militar argentina escrito por Alicia Kozameh. Los resultados muestran que los mecanismos evocativos de la metonimia contribuyen a revelar las relaciones de género y, por tanto, requieren especial consideración para la traducción de textos feministas desde una perspectiva transnacional.

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The Cambridge History of the Romance Languages

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Ledgeway³

2010

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Lunfardo, Argentina's Unknown Tongue

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“I think I sound stupid if I try to use those words”: The role of metapragmatic awareness in the study abroad language classroom

“I think I sound stupid if I try to use those words”: The role of metapragmatic awareness in the study abroad language classroom

Translating Metonymies of the Incarcerated Female Self in Pasos bajo el agua/Steps Under Water, by Argentine Writer Alicia Kozameh

The Cambridge History of the Romance Languages

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