El repte de la llengua al ciberespai. Ressenya de Josep Gifreu: El català a l'espai de comunicació, Barcelona-Castelló-València. UAB, UJ1, UV, 272 p.

Avui en dia són diverses les llengües que lluiten per colonitzar la cibersocietat a la xarxa , i el català s'hi està forjant un paper gens menyspreable. Josep Gifreu repassa, en una investigació a cavall entre l'assaig històric cultural i la crònica política, l'evolució del procés general de normalització lingüística alhora que descriu el canvi en l'ecosistema mediàtic durant el període 1976-2013: des de la publicació del diari Avui fins a la Galàxia Internet , la revolució radical que , en el nostre cas, ha implicat la incorporació de la versió catalana a Google, l'aparició del domini .cat, la publicació del diari Ara , els més de 400.000 articles de la Viquipèdia o, per contra, el tancament de RTVV.

Guia temàtica Biblioteca ETSAB: Basílica de la Mercè i Capitania General. Antic convent de la Mercè

Postprint (author’s final draft)

Guia temàtica Biblioteca ETSAB: Museu Marès (Antic Tribunal de la Inquisició)

Postprint (author’s final draft)

Statistical analysis of event-related potential elicited by verb-complement merge in Brazilian Portuguese

An interesting fact about language cognition is that stimulation involving incongruence in the merge operation between verb and complement has often been related to a negative event-related potential (ERP) of augmented amplitude and latency of ca. 400 ms - the N400. Using an automatic ERP latency and amplitude estimator to facilitate the recognition of waves with a low signal-to-noise ratio, the objective of the present study was to study the N400 statistically in 24 volunteers. Stimulation consisted of 80 experimental sentences (40 congruous and 40 incongruous), generated in Brazilian Portuguese, involving two distinct local verb-argument combinations (nominal object and pronominal object series). For each volunteer, the EEG was simultaneously acquired at 20 derivations, topographically localized according to the 10-20 International System. A computerized routine for automatic N400-peak marking (based on the ascendant zero-cross of the first waveform derivative) was applied to the estimated individual ERP waveform for congruous and incongruous sentences in both series for all ERP topographic derivations. Peak-to-peak N400 amplitude was significantly augmented (P < 0.05; one-sided Wilcoxon signed-rank test) due to incongruence in derivations F3, T3, C3, Cz, T5, P3, Pz, and P4 for nominal object series and in P3, Pz and P4 for pronominal object series. The results also indicated high inter-individual variability in ERP waveforms, suggesting that the usual procedure of grand averaging might not be considered a generally adequate approach. Hence, signal processing statistical techniques should be applied in neurolinguistic ERP studies allowing waveform analysis with low signal-to-noise ratio.

Criteria for the validation of specialized verb equivalents : application in bilingual terminography

Multilingual terminological resources do not always include valid equivalents of legal terms for two main reasons. Firstly, legal systems can differ from one language community to another and even from one country to another because each has its own history and traditions. As a result, the non-isomorphism between legal and linguistic systems may render the identification of equivalents a particularly challenging task. Secondly, by focusing primarily on the definition of equivalence, a notion widely discussed in translation but not in terminology, the literature does not offer solid and systematic methodologies for assigning terminological equivalents. As a result, there is a lack of criteria to guide both terminologists and translators in the search and validation of equivalent terms. This problem is even more evident in the case of predicative units, such as verbs. Although some terminologists (L‘Homme 1998; Lerat 2002; Lorente 2007) have worked on specialized verbs, terminological equivalence between units that belong to this part of speech would benefit from a thorough study. By proposing a novel methodology to assign the equivalents of specialized verbs, this research aims at defining validation criteria for this kind of predicative units, so as to contribute to a better understanding of the phenomenon of terminological equivalence as well as to the development of multilingual terminography in general, and to the development of legal terminography, in particular. The study uses a Portuguese-English comparable corpus that consists of a single genre of texts, i.e. Supreme Court judgments, from which 100 Portuguese and 100 English specialized verbs were selected. The description of the verbs is based on the theory of Frame Semantics (Fillmore 1976, 1977, 1982, 1985; Fillmore and Atkins 1992), on the FrameNet methodology (Ruppenhofer et al. 2010), as well as on the methodology for compiling specialized lexical resources, such as DiCoInfo (L‘Homme 2008), developed in the Observatoire de linguistique Sens-Texte at the Université de Montréal. The research reviews contributions that have adopted the same theoretical and methodological framework to the compilation of lexical resources and proposes adaptations to the specific objectives of the project. In contrast to the top-down approach adopted by FrameNet lexicographers, the approach described here is bottom-up, i.e. verbs are first analyzed and then grouped into frames for each language separately. Specialized verbs are said to evoke a semantic frame, a sort of conceptual scenario in which a number of mandatory elements (core Frame Elements) play specific roles (e.g. ARGUER, JUDGE, LAW), but specialized verbs are often accompanied by other optional information (non-core Frame Elements), such as the criteria and reasons used by the judge to reach a decision (statutes, codes, previous decisions). The information concerning the semantic frame that each verb evokes was encoded in an xml editor and about twenty contexts illustrating the specific way each specialized verb evokes a given frame were semantically and syntactically annotated. The labels attributed to each semantic frame (e.g. [Compliance], [Verdict]) were used to group together certain synonyms, antonyms as well as equivalent terms. The research identified 165 pairs of candidate equivalents among the 200 Portuguese and English terms that were grouped together into 76 frames. 71% of the pairs of equivalents were considered full equivalents because not only do the verbs evoke the same conceptual scenario but their actantial structures, the linguistic realizations of the actants and their syntactic patterns were similar. 29% of the pairs of equivalents did not entirely meet these criteria and were considered partial equivalents. Reasons for partial equivalence are provided along with illustrative examples. Finally, the study describes the semasiological and onomasiological entry points that JuriDiCo, the bilingual lexical resource compiled during the project, offers to future users.

Discursivitzant la immigració i el dret d'asil: utilitzant l'anàlisi textual en la investigació-acció feminista i antirracista (part 1 de 2) - Castellà

Ponent: Erica Burman / Presenta: Jordi Bonet

Verb Classes and Alternations in Bangla, German, English, and Korean

In this report, we investigate the relationship between the semantic and syntactic properties of verbs. Our work is based on the English Verb Classes and Alternations of (Levin, 1993). We explore how these classes are manifested in other languages, in particular, in Bangla, German, and Korean. Our report includes a survey and classification of several hundred verbs from these languages into the cross-linguistic equivalents of Levin's classes. We also explore ways in which our findings may be used to enhance WordNet in two ways: making the English syntactic information of WordNet more fine-grained, and making WordNet multilingual.

Anglès i el seu emblemàtic Barri Antic. Model per a l’estudi de l’interpretació del territori en el marc de les Vies Verdes

Aquest projecte parteix d’inici de tres objectius fonamentals, com són: estudiar a fons el Barri Antic d’Anglès, posteriorment dur a terme una interpretació rigorosa i objectiva d’aquest Casc Antic i finalment demostrar el gran potencial que atresoren les Vies Verdes de Girona

Implantació de la digestió anaeròbia a la EDAR de Castell-Platja d’Aro

Estudi de la viabilitat tècnica i econòmica de la implantació de la digestió anaeròbia a l’EDAR de Castell-Platja d’Aro per tal de portar a terme un sistema de cogeneració. S’ha estudiant el funcionament actual amb digestió aeròbia i s’ha valorat mitjançant balanços de matèria, energia i econòmics els avantatges i desavantatges de substituir la digestió aeròbia per anaeròbia

Cultura organizacional en la empresa Faber Castell en Colombia

El siguiente es el trabajo de grado de la Facultad de Administración de la Universidad Colegio Mayor de nuestra señora del Rosario para optar por el titulo de Administrador de Empresas. Es un estudio de clima y cultura organizacional en la organización Faber Castell aplicada a su subsidiaria en Colombia Tecnacril Ltda. Empresa dedicada a la producción y comercialización de artículos para escritura y arte. El trabajo busca determinar la cultura y el clima organizacional dentro de la organización determinando características únicas les permite diferenciarse y tendencias a nivel de comportamiento y procesos dentro de la organización y como es reflejado en el entorno en el cual se desarrolla. Para este trabajo se aplico el instrumento para medición de clima (IMCOC) y de cultura en desarrollado por el doctor Carlos Eduardo Méndez Álvarez profesor de la Universidad Colegio Mayor de nuestra Señora del Rosario Los resultados obtenidos nos determinar pautas y aspectos a mejorar o cambiar dentro de la organización en fin de buscar una mayor productividad y por ende competitividad de la misma basándonos en el talento humano como uno de los principales rasgos competitivos dentro de la organización.

El camí de Castelló : la descoberta d'un camí d'origen medieval. 'El camino de Castelló : el descubrimiento de un camino medieval'.

Resumen tomado de la revista

CP Sant Bartomeu, revista escolar Es Castell : Una publicació amb molta història. 'CP Sant Bartomeu, revista escolar Es Castell : Una publicación con mucha historia'.

Repaso histórico de las diferentes publicaciones escolares que han surgido de la escuela pública Sant Bartomeu de Alaró (Mallorca) a lo largo de más de 50 años. También se describe la situación de la publicación actual, sus finalidades, objetivos y las actividades que se desarrollan para su elaboración.

Les illes Balears en el món antic (2) : les divinitats. 'Las Islas Baleares en el mundo antiguo (2) : las divinidades'.

Resumen tomado de la innovación

Les illes Balears en el món antic (1) : la metalúlúrgia del bronze. 'Las Islas Baleares en el mundo antiguo (1) : la metalurgia del bronce'.

Resumen tomado de la innovación

Unitats didàctiques integrades de llengua catalana i literatura i llengua castellana i literatura. Educació secundària obligatòria : Francesc de Borja Moll, llengües romàniques, llengua i dialecte, principals dialectes del català i del castellà. 'Unidades didácticas integradas de lengua y literatura catalana y lengua y literatura castellana. Educación secundaria obligatoria : Francesc de Borja Moll, lenguas románicas, lengua y dialecto, principales dialectos del catalán y del castellano'.

Documento en formato electrónico (PDF). Esta unidad didáctica está pensada para ser aplicada en el tercer curso de ESO. Resumen tomado parcialmente de la propia innovación