Habermas y el problema de la verdad

El texto revisa los problemas que ha suscitado el abandono, por parte de Habermas, de una concepción epistémica de la verdad. Este autor ha sostenido que los enunciados descriptivos pueden ser verdaderos o falsos (en un sentido no epistémico) y los juicios morales correctos o incorrectos (en un sentido epistémico). Las expresiones evaluativas no se encontrarían en ninguno de esos casos y no podrían aspirar a una validez independiente del contexto. El artículo examina —a la luz de la literatura— las críticas que esa posición ha suscitado. En general, se ha sostenido que mientras un enunciado descriptivo podría ser verdadero aunque no sepamos cómo justificarlo, no tendría sentido decir que un enunciado moral es correcto aunque no sepamos cómo justificarlo. Ello ocurriría porque mientras el concepto de verdad de Habermas es no epistémico, el concepto de corrección lo es. Para superar esa asimetría, McCarthy ha sugerido un concepto de corrección puramente procedimental; Putnam un concepto de verdad deflacionada; y Lafont una tesis realista tanto en el plano natural como moral.

A reassessment of traditional lexicographical tools in the light of new corpora: sports Anglicisms in Spanish

There is no question nowadays as to the international and powerful status of English at a global scale and, consequently, as to its presence in non-English speaking countries at different levels. Linguistically speaking, English is one of the languages which have mostly influenced Spanish throughout its history and especially from the late 1960s. In this study, the impact of English on Spanish is considered in the language of sports; particularly, sports Anglicisms and false Anglicisms are analysed. Due attention is paid to the different forms that an Anglicism may adopt and to which of those forms are more widely accepted or rejected by prescriptivists and speakers at large, in the light of a contrastive analysis of their appearance in the Nuevo diccionario de anglicismos, the Diccionario de la Real Academia Española and the Corpus de Referencia del Español Actual.

False anglicisms in the Spanish language of fashion and beauty

Many works have already dealt with anglicisms in Spanish, especially in science and information technologies. However, despite the high and growing number of English terms incorporated daily by the language of fashion, it has received comparative less attention in lexicographic and terminological studies than that of other areas, such as science or business. For several reasons, which include prestige or peer pressure, Spanish has not only adopted English words with new meanings and usage, but also contains other forms based on English patterns which users seem to consider more accurate or expressive. This paper concentrates on false anglicisms as indicators of some of the special relationships and influences between languages arising from the pervasive presence of English. We shall look at the Spanish language of fashion, which, in addition to genuine anglicisms, has for some time been using English words with different meanings, or even created items of its own (or imported them from other languages) with the appearance of English words. These false anglicisms, which have proven extremely popular in receiving languages (not only in Spanish) have frequently been disseminated by youth magazines and the new digital media, both in general spheres and in fashion-specific contexts.

Huellas de la ficción. Enseñar Historia a través del análisis de modelos y estereotipos en el Cine y los Videojuegos

Las nuevas tecnologías han terminado por transformar la forma de vivir y de pensar. Dentro de este nuevo paradigma, lo audiovisual ha complementado y desplazado la palabra escrita y los medios tradicionales, lo que pone de manifiesto que la constante información recibida a través de los medios audiovisuales y digitales supone también una transmisión de valores que modelan la forma de entender no sólo el presente, sino también el pasado. Partiendo de esta premisa, se muestra indispensable la necesidad de adaptar la Educación hacia metodologías que contrarresten el efecto nocivo que puede suponer esta transmisión de estereotipos. De este modo, la presente propuesta de innovación se centra en los dos grandes medios de ocio de la cultura de masas -el cine y el videojuego- y en cómo esos falsos arquetipos pueden resultar de utilidad para la enseñanza de la Historia.

All Is not English that Glitters: False Anglicisms in the Spanish Language of Sports

Over the past decades, many studies have dealt with Anglicisms in Spanish, not only in science and technology, but also in other areas such as business, fashion and even sports. However, in spite of the large number of works on Spanish Anglicisms in sports, these have often disregarded the distinction between Anglicisms and false Anglicisms. Given their importance as evidence of the particular relationships between languages, this article focuses on the use of false Anglicisms in the Spanish language of sports, which has not only adopted English words giving them new meanings and usage, but has also either imported items with an English appearance from other languages or created its own forms based on English patterns. Although these false Anglicisms, which have proven extremely popular in various European languages (not only Spanish), have frequently been used and disseminated, as some examples will prove, little attention has been paid to their differences with the English term or their non-English origin.