Geografia literària dels Països Catalans. El cas de la comarca d' Osona

La literatura ha estat, històricament, una forma de vivència i de coneixença del territori. En aquest sentit, el projecte Geografia literària dels Països Catalans esdevé una proposta de redescoberta de pobles, ciutats i comarques, de recuperació i fixació en la memòria d’espais, indrets, cases, monuments, edificis patrimonials o llocs mítics que han estat el centre d’interès dels nostres escriptors d’ençà dels trobadors i Ramon Llull fins als nostres dies. Per tot plegat, aquest treball té un triple objectiu: en primer lloc, donar a conèixer la iniciativa Geografia literària dels Països Catalans; en segon lloc, proposar-ne un marc teòric, i, per acabar, analitzar, específicament, alguns dels espais literaris que es localitzen a la comarca d’Osona.

Patriarchal Hauntings: Re-reading Villainy and Gender in Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca

Criticism of Daphne du Maurier’s popular classic Rebecca (1938) can be divided into two mainstream interpretations. On the one hand, it was traditionally marketed as a gothic romance where the hero and the heroine conquered the evil women that separated them. On the other, certain feminist critics have recently provided a very diff erent view of the story, aligning it with gothic narratives that deal with the dangers women suff er under the patriarchal control of their husbands. Th is would imply that du Maurier’s novel should not be read as a traditional romance that promotes patriarchy, as the former interpretation suggested. In this article, I propose, through a Gothic Studies and a Gender Studies reading, that villainy in this novel is not exclusively linked to gender and, therefore, the victim and abuser statuses cannot be equated to femininity and masculinity, respectively. Instead, I argue that villainy in the novel is inextricably connected to being in a powerful position within patriarchy, and that it is the desire to maintain this position and perpetuate the patriarchal system that leads the main characters (men and women) to commit acts of villainy.

Respeto o vampirización. El arte como"almacén" inagotable de ideas creativas al alcance de la publicidad

Since the begínning ofAdvertising, art has been a source ofinexhaustible inspiration for the advertising creative, who have used or misused it with any limits. With more or less direct references to artists, pieces or art movements, to references to the act ofart creation itself and certain aesthetic categories. Taking into account the various semantic versions that art offers, with multiple connotative lectures, this use has not been much profitable in many occasions, not as much as it could have been. However, in other circumstances, thís use has been vampirizing, only preoccupied for the audience impact ofa well knowll reference, but despising it and reducing it to a mere reclaim. In the case ofGiocconda by Leonardo da Vinci or the Birth ofVenus by Bottícelli are significant examples ofthis use, maybe popular, ofthe art productíon. That is to say that the depository was used as a source ofreferences to enrich the lectures ofthe advertising pieces (for instance, the excellent Citroen Xsara Picasso advertisement with the fordism mass production chain) or ¡ust to allow a higher t1Otoriety (like the Chupa-Chups advertisement where the Mona Lisa heartily sucks one ofthe mythical sweets with a stick). Thanks to a selected advertising pieces, graphical and audiovisual, we will be able to go through this kind ofadvertising creation logistics, from the moment that this one decided to call out these art references that were sleeping dreamingly Oll the fair in a depository until this strictly cultural moment came.

La construcción narrativa de la identidad en un contexto educativo intercultural = The narrative construction of identity in a intercultural educative setting

En este trabajo se expone e ilustra un modelo teórico para entender las funciones de la identidad, así como los mecanismospsicosociales asociados a su construcción: “Modelo Evolutivo y Funcional de la Identidad Mediada” (MEBIM). La identidad, mediada narrativamente, cumple una función personal orientada a la dirección de la propia vida, así como una función sociocultural vinculada a la búsqueda de reconocimiento de los derechos de los grupos sociales a los que uno se siente apegado. Se ilustran los factores asociados a la construcción de la identidad personal (sí mismos posibles, transiciones vitales, vínculo afectivo) y sociocultural (acción-transformación e identificación simbólica) a partir de 12 historias de vida realizadas con mestizos e indígenasde la Universidad Intercultural de Chiapas (México). Se sugiere que en contextos educativos formales, como la escuela o la Universidad, se deben propiciar narrativas personales y socioculturales con el objetivo de optimizar la identidad en un mundo a la vez globalizado y plural

Els mitjans de comunicació i la construcció del relat polític.El cas del procés de transició nacional de Catalunya

“Els mitjans de comunicació i la construcció del relat polític. El cas del procés de transició nacional de Catalunya”, es presenta comuna proposta de recerca doctoral que té com a objectiu analitzar elsmecanismes emprats pels mitjans de comunicació per explicar el conflicte polític latent en les relacions socials i institucionalsentre Catalunya i Espanya. La recerca que es proposa va més enllà de l’anàlisi i l’evolució quantitativa de les diverses opcions deresolució del conflicte (independència, reforma constitucional imanteniment de l’statu quo), per centrar-­‐se en l’ús d’un seguitd’estructures narratives

U.S.English is a salad bowl. The Representation of Regionalisms in Standard American English

American English exhibits a great dialectal diversity, easily perceived in lexicon; so that questions are raised about which regionalisms are part of the mythical SAE and which are not. A small sample of regionalisms is checked against three standard dictionaries in order to determine the role regionalisms play in SAE.

La humanización de las imágenens emitidas por la publicidad de los destinos monumentales: el caso de Girona

This article is based on the presentation of the results of a study on the humanisation of the image of cultural destinations, applied to the case of the city of Girona. According to the theories raised by different authors, we were interested in analyzing if the tourist images shown by the tourists publicity are influenced by romantic references typical of the dynamics of individual consumption. That is to say, if these images project a vision of an empty city, a museum.city, an individual panoramic or an individual consumption experience. The results of the analysis allow us to affirm that a mythical image of the city exists and it has a clearly romantic origin. Nevertheless, on the other hand, a specific glance exists where the tension between the indivudual freedom and the social conventionalism is demonstrated

De què vas, tio?

My study is based on an ethnography of two groups of young people from working-class neighbourhoods in Barcelona. I was interested in researching the impact of Catalan language policies on the identities of young people of Spanish-speaking immigrant families. I sought to go beyond the constraints of traditional structuralist approaches in Sociolinguistics in order to make my analysis relevant to people working for gender equality, the promotion of the Catalan language, or other social causes. I combine ideas from Bakhtin, Bourdieu, Fairclough, Foucault and Goffman to build a dialectical, historical, process-centred perspective that conceptualises practices in terms of social and political struggles.I analyse young people's peer-group activities in terms of their significance for the construction of gender identities. I propose a variety of forms of masculinity and femininity according to the various ways in which members organised their gender displays in face-to-face interaction.I also show how their use of argot and dialectal Spanish was part of the processes whereby members defined their relationships, constructed particular subject positions in interaction and struggled to legitimate their own values.I explore the meanings constructed through Catalan and Spanish by looking into the code-switching practices of my participants. I analysed their talk in terms of narratives that present particular sequential dramatisations of events for conversational audiences. These narratives follow the expressive intention of the author, and are populated with multiple voices of animated characters. I argue that, in the groups I studied, Catalan was generally not used to animate the voices that were central to the identities of the peer-group, and particularly to masculine identities.In order to contextualise these practices within the wider society, I also look into the processes of language choice in face-to-face encounters. I argue that existing conventions made it difficult for people to find opportunities to speak Catalan. I also pointed to the difficulties that my participants had to find employment, which were particularly acute amongst the more politically aware individuals. I conclude that these young working-class people had little possibilities of investing in more egalitarian forms of identity given their lack of resources and opportunities to develop their identities in other social spaces, such as the workplace.

Improving Social Understanding of Preschool Children: Evaluation of a Training Program

This study tested the effects of a training program intending to foster social understanding or the capacity which enables them to understand themselves and others in terms of intentions, beliefs, desires, and emotions in children at preschool age. A number of studies have shown that in the context of shared narratives, children are particularly likely to engage in talk about inner states

Els altres parlants i la història social de la llengua

The social history of language is usually focused on collective actors. This article aims to reflect both on the speakers as individual subjects of the social history of language and on the sources which allow an approach to speakers, more precisely immigrants of the contemporary Catalonia. In very different narratives, immigrants talk about their territory of origin or economic conditions, and also about languages expressing the most varied language attitudes. Prejudices or language uses, common topics of these narratives, are fully within the field of social history of the language. Speakers cannot be always out of disciplines whose narrative axis is the time

Miquel Martí i Pol, traducció i censura

Poeta, autor de narracions i memòries, Miquel Martí i Pol també fou un prolífic traductor del francès, amb petites incursions en les literatures anglesa, italiana i llatinoamericana. S’estrenà a la segona meitat dels anys seixanta, quan la tènue obertura del Ministeri d’Informació i Turisme aportà aires de modernitat a la indústria editorial catalana, que volgué introduir i difondre nous corrents. En vuit anys, entre 1965 i 1973, traduí al català, majoritàriament del francès, vuit obres de la literatura i del pensament contemporanis. Contextualitzades les traduccions de Miquel Martí i Pol, l’article se centra en l’estudi dels expedients de censura dels vuit títols que traduí al català entre 1965 i 1973, dipositats a l’Archivo General de la Administración d’Alcalá de Henares.

La construcción narrativa de la identidad en un contexto educativo intercultural = The narrative construction of identity in a intercultural educative setting

En este trabajo se expone e ilustra un modelo teórico para entender las funciones de la identidad, así como los mecanismospsicosociales asociados a su construcción: “Modelo Evolutivo y Funcional de la Identidad Mediada” (MEBIM). La identidad, mediada narrativamente, cumple una función personal orientada a la dirección de la propia vida, así como una función sociocultural vinculada a la búsqueda de reconocimiento de los derechos de los grupos sociales a los que uno se siente apegado. Se ilustran los factores asociados a la construcción de la identidad personal (sí mismos posibles, transiciones vitales, vínculo afectivo) y sociocultural (acción-transformación e identificación simbólica) a partir de 12 historias de vida realizadas con mestizos e indígenasde la Universidad Intercultural de Chiapas (México). Se sugiere que en contextos educativos formales, como la escuela o la Universidad, se deben propiciar narrativas personales y socioculturales con el objetivo de optimizar la identidad en un mundo a la vez globalizado y plural