Anglicisms and calques in upper social class in pre-revolutionary Cuba (1930–1959): A sociolinguistic analysis

The geographical proximity and socioeconomic dependence on the United States brought about a deep rooted anglicization of the Cuban Spanish lexis and social strata, especially throughout the Neocolonial period (1902–1959). This study is based on the revision of a renowned newspaper of that time, Diario de la Marina, and the corresponding elaboration of a corpus of English-induced loanwords. Diario de la Marina particularly targeted upper social class, and only crónicas sociales (society pages’ columns) and print advertising were revised because of their fully descriptive texts, which encoded the ruling class ideology and consumerism. The findings show that there existed a high number of lexical and cultural anglicisms in the sociolect in question, and that the sociolinguistic anglicization was openly embraced by the upper socioeconomic stratum, entailing a differentiating sign of sophistication and social stratification. Likewise, a number of the anglicisms collected, particularly those related with social events, are unused in contemporary Cuban Spanish, which suggests a major semantic shifting in this sociolect after 1959.

Aspectos didácticos en la formación de traductores basada en corpus

Este trabajo tiene que ver con uno de los objetivos perseguidos, en el marco del Proyecto Redes de Investigación en Docencia Universitaria del Instituto de Ciencias de la Educación de la Universidad de Alicante, por la red 3152 “Formación de traductores basada en corpus y desarrollo de COMENEGO (Corpus Multilingüe de Economía y Negocios)”, relacionado, en concreto, con el uso de corpus en la formación de traductores. Se presenta una síntesis de una serie de comunicaciones que se pronunciaron en el IV Congreso Internacional CULT (Corpus Use and Learning to Translate), celebrado en la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras de la Universidad de Alicante a finales de mayo de 2015.

La representación del género en los libros de texto utilizados para la docencia de la lengua inglesa en la UA

En el proyecto cuyos resultados exponemos aquí parcialmente hemos analizado una serie de libros de texto destinados a la enseñanza de la lengua inglesa, Face2Face, en sus tres niveles pre-intermedio, intermedio y avanzado, desde la perspectiva del género. Consideramos fundamental identificar, analizar, superar y eliminar de los libros de texto cualquier referencia explícita o implícita tanto lingüística como no-lingüísticamente a cuestiones relacionadas con los prejuicios y discriminación por razón de sexo, ya que los libros de texto juegan un papel muy importante en la creación de ideas, actos y desarrollo o avance de la sociedad. Además, es esencial velar por el uso de un lenguaje no-discriminatorio e igualitario en el aprendizaje de lenguas. Para el análisis de los datos hemos usado métodos tanto cuantitativos como cualitativos, de los cuales podemos concluir que todavía estamos lejos de conseguir la superación y completa eliminación de determinados estereotipos, si bien la presencia de la mujer así como los roles, profesiones, etc. atribuidas de modo igualitario a hombres y mujeres han ido ganando lugar en los libros de texto con el paso de los años.

Asignaturas de Traducción Jurídica del grado en Traducción e Interpretación

Investigación de los métodos y contenidos de las asignaturas de traducción jurídica del Grado de Traducción en Interpretación de las combinaciones español y alemán/francés/inglés y coordinación entre ellas para buscar sinergias, detectar posibles incongruencias y mejorar la calidad docente. Esta red ha coordinado a los profesores que imparten dichas asignaturas del área temática de traducción jurídica. Para llevar a cabo esta tarea se han celebrarán reuniones presenciales y telemáticas en las que se ha puesto en común la información necesaria para saber qué métodos y estrategias se emplean en el proceso de enseñanza-aprendizaje y cuáles son los contenidos utilizados en estas asignaturas, realizándose un ejercicio de análisis y comparación. Esto ha servido para determinar qué métodos y estrategias de determinadas asignaturas, una vez demostrada su utilidad pedagógica y académica, pueden utilizarse en otras con el objetivo de mejorar y ampliar los métodos didácticos y los materiales empleados. Además, se pretende dar continuidad a la red para evaluar dichas innovaciones.

Lexicon Syriacum ab Antonio Zanolini ... collectum : Voces omnes, quae in Novi Testamenti translatione Syriaca inveniuntur, complectens ; Accedit eiusdem auctoris Disputatio de lingua Syriaca, Versionibus Syriacis & De Maronitis quibus praecipue nunc lingua syriaca in usu est ...

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Grammar in dictionaries revisited: the case of verbs with se

This paper is a study about the way in which se structures are represented in 20 verb entries of nine dictionaries of Spanish language. There is a large number of these structures and they are problematic for native and non native speakers. Verbs of the analysis are middle-high frequency and, in the most part of the cases, very polysemous, and this allows to observe interconnections between the different se structures and the different meanings of each verb. Data of the lexicographic analysis are cross-checked with corpus analysis of the same units. As a result, it is observed that there is a large variety in the data which are offered in each dictionary and in the way they are offered, inter and intradictionary. The reasons range from the theoretical overall of each Project to practical performance. This leads to the conclusion that it is necessary to further progress in the dictionary model it is being handled, in order to offer lexico-grammatical phenomenon such as se verbs in an accurate, clear and exhaustive way.

Issues in On-Line Legal Translation Teaching

A description is given of the structure of, theoretical background of, and experiences gained from, a course in legal English-Spanish translation taught at the University of Alicante.

False Anglicisms in Legal and Business English as a Lingua Franca (ELF): A Process of Back-borrowing

False Anglicisms are words which technically are not part of the English language, but "seem" English, due to their shape or resemblance to English words. These are usually the result of new creations/coinages in other languages and/or semantic shifts. Due to the use of English as a Lingua Franca, it is becoming quite common to come across these words in English with the "re-imported" shape and meaning they bring from other languages.

Going Beyond the obvious in English for Legal Purposes

This paper deals with some of the problems and implications of Legal English being used as a lingua franca, especially when teaching legal English in courses for judges in various European contexts.

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.