Ecosustainability as Ideology

In this paper, the authors settle down a systemic theory of the ideologies in one first approach, distinguishing between the Structural Base and the Superstructure, settling down projections and images between both. Distinction between material structure (Structural Base SB) and ideal or cultural Superstructure is common. This dichotomy translates to social sphere the old religious and philosophical dualism between the body and the soul. In fact, such separation between body and soul, between material structure and ideal and cultural superstructure does not exist. It is a cybernetic process with mathematical and logical images and projections. We consider the Eco-sustainability as an ediodynamic ideology in according to Waldorf’s classification.

Linguistic Systems and Knowledge of Reality

Linguistic systems are the human tools to understand reality. But is it possible to attain this reality? The reality that we perceive, is it just a fragmented reality of which we are part? In this paper the authors present is an attempt to address this question from an epistemological and philosophic linguistic point of view.

Linguistic Knowledge of Reality: A Metaphysical Impossibility?

Reality contains information (significant) that becomes significances in the mind of the observer. Language is the human instrument to understand reality. But is it possible to attain this reality? Is there an absolute reality, as certain philosophical schools tell us? The reality that we perceive, is it just a fragmented reality of which we are part? The work that the authors present is an attempt to address this question from an epistemological, linguistic and logical-mathematical point of view.

Semiotic Vision of Ideologies

A semiotic theory of systems derived from language would have the purpose of classifying all the systems of linguistic expression: philosophy, ideology, myth, poetry, art, as much as the dream, lapsus, and free association in a pluridimensional matrix that will interact with many diversified fields. In each one of these discourses it is necessary to consider a plurality of questions, the essence of which will only be comprehensible by the totality; it will be necessary to ask, in the first place, what will be the purpose of this language, what function does it fulfill and for which reason has it been constructed. The concept of World vision (WV) is introduced and its relation with Generalized Collective Conscience (GCC) and Particularized Collective Conscience. Culture implies a particular WV. Culture creates GCC. The semantic field is a structure that formalizes the units of a certain culture constituting a portion of the vision of the Reality that owns this culture. An ecological case is explained.

Social Changes Reflected in Specialized Languages: Lexical Re-/deconstruction in Lesbian Studies

One of the most important factors of recognition, belonging and identification in scientific communities is their specialized language: doctors, mathematicians and anthropologists feel they are part of a group with which they can interact because they share a common “language”. While ideology is present in all academic registers, it is in human sciences where its presence (or absence) leads to more visible linguistic phenomena. An interesting example is that of lesbian studies: as non-heterosexual members of society have become less stigmatized, lesbian studies have developed a language of their own. In our paper, we shall explore the mechanisms used in the creation of specific vocabulary in this academic area, paying special attention to the refashioning or deconstruction of meaning of established terms as a result of changes in social perception or the challenging of pre-determined meanings.

La representación de las mujeres inmigrantes en una muestra de la prensa española: deconstruyendo la invisibilidad

Esta investigación tiene como objetivo principal estudiar la representación de las mujeres inmigrantes en una muestra de la prensa española. Para ello, se recopiló un corpus de noticias sobre mujeres inmigrantes desde febrero de 2012 hasta julio de 2014, lo que suma un total de dos años y medio, de los tres principales periódicos españoles: El País, El Mundo y ABC. El número total de noticias recopiladas es de 56. En este estudio se analizarán los principales temas que se tratan en las noticias seleccionadas y las principales características lingüísticas y visuales empleadas para hablar sobre las mujeres inmigrantes. El análisis crítico del discurso (ACD) se empleará en este trabajo por su interés en la dimensión social del discurso al estudiar la lengua unida a temas sociales y por permitir profundizar en la ideología. En este sentido, el ACD puede ayudar a desentrañar problemas relacionados con las desigualdades de género al observar el modo en que las mujeres inmigrantes aparecen representadas en los textos objeto de estudio. Además, se empleará el modelo de gramática visual propuesto por Kress y van Leeuwen (2006) con el fin de analizar las principales características de las fotografías. Los principales resultados obtenidos del estudio señalan que la representación de las mujeres inmigrantes en la prensa española es escasa y que cuando éstas aparecen como protagonistas de noticias suelen representarse como víctima y se las relaciona fundamentalmente con la prostitución.