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Demolingüística del español en Italia, con un anexo sobre Malta, San Marino y Ciudad del Vaticano
Milin Bonomi, Maria Vittoria Calvi, Marcella Uberti-Bona (eds.), Demolingüística del español en Italia, con un anexo sobre Malta, San Marino y Ciudad del Vaticano, Madrid, Instituto Cervantes, Universidad de Heidelberg, Universidad de Zurich, 2024, 246 pp. ISBN 9788418210570
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Metodología de la investigación en la enseñanza-aprendizaje del español como segunda lengua (L2)/ lengua extranjera (LE)
Isabel Santos Gargallo, Susana Pastor Cesteros (dirs.), Metodología de la investigación en la enseñanza-aprendizaje del español como segunda lengua (L2)/lengua extranjera (LE), Madrid, Arco/Libros, 2022, 391 pp. ISBN 97884713538648
Los culturemas. Aprender a traducir con la literatura infantil y juvenil (LIJ)
Nuria Pérez Vicente, Los culturemas. Aprender a traducir con la literatura infantil y juvenil (LIJ), Bologna, Clueb, 2024, 140 pp. ISBN 978-88-491-5803-8
La argumentación en la escritura académica de investigación
Natasha Leal Rivas, La argumentación en la escritura académica de investigación: perspectivas, procesos y estrategias, Madrid, Visor Lingüística, 2023, 183 pp. ISBN 9788498952803
Aproximación poliédrica a la cuestión del género en la literatura infantil y juvenil
Veljka Ruzicka Kenfel, Raffaella Tonin, Aproximación poliédrica a la cuestión del género en la literatura infantil y juvenil, Berlin, Peter Lang Verlag, 2024, 158 pp. ISBN 9783631907627
Lingüística clínica en el ámbito hispánico: un panorama de estudios
Ana I. Codesido García, Carlos Hernández-Sacristán, Victoria Marrero-Aguiar (eds.), Lingüística clínica en el ámbito hispánico: un panorama de estudios, Berlin, Peter Lang, 2023, 416 pp. ISBN: 978-3-631-89395-1
El español como lengua de mediación en contextos educativos y profesionales
Sonia Bailini, Maria Vittoria Calvi, Elena Liverani (eds.); Roberto Ortí Teruel (coord.), El español como lengua de mediación en contextos educativos y profesionales, Milano, Ledizioni, in collaborazione con Instituto Cervantes, 2024, 208 pp. ISBN 9791256002221
Embodiment and somatic metaphors in bilingual self-translation. The case of Basque poet Miren Abur Meabe from the perspective of Cognitive Translation Studies
This paper examines a corpus of somatic metaphors coined by bilingual self-translating poets through the approach of Cognitive Translation Studies and its concept of embodiment. It delves into the case study of the bilingual Basque poet Miren Agur Meabe, who joins a previously studied sample of authors who practice endogenous and exogenous self-translation. The conclusions of this work aim to raise awareness and draw attention to an ethical issue, of a sociolinguistic nature, linked to the linguistic rights of speakers of minority and minoritized languages.
Lanzarote and Saramago in the words of an exceptional translator: Pilar del Río’s La intuición de la isla (2022) and the problems of translating it into Italian
The article aims to explore the challenges posed by the Italian translation of La intuición de la isla (2022) by Pilar del Río—wife of José Saramago—, a work devoted to the years spent in Lanzarote. The author, in fact, was not only Saramago’s wife but also his Spanish-language translator from 1997 onwards, and the memoir includes passages recounting the writing process of some of the Portuguese author’s novels, texts which she often began translating into Spanish almost simultaneously. Inevitably, the book contains reminiscences and intertextual references, as well as frequent allusions to Portuguese language and culture. This unique interplay offers an opportunity to reflect on how the Italian translation —introducing a third language into the dialogue and addressing a new readership not necessarily familiar with Saramago’s universe— can accommodate and convey such material. As will be shown, the Italian version published by Feltrinelli in 2024, signed by long-standing translator Rita Desti, is based on the Portuguese translation; this explains why some passages had already undergone a process of neutralisation.
The motorcycle diaries, a journey into intersemiotic and interlinguistic translation
This paper analyzes, on the one hand, the adaptation of the written sources on which Walter Salles’ film Diarios de motocicleta (2004) is based and, on the other, the rendering in Italian of some cultural-specific elements. The selection of contents in the intersemiotic translation and the rendering in the Italian dubbing in the interlingual translation paints a picture of the protagonist that only partially reflects his real biography because they respond more to criteria of usability than of historical fidelity.
¿Debo hacerlo or Tengo que hacerlo? Reflecting on modal polysemy from an interlinguistic perspective
The study adopts a contrastive approach, showing that the Italian verb dovere may express either deontic or dynamic modality, whereas in Spanish these values are distributed between deber and tener que, depending on the speaker’s stance. From an acquisitional perspective, it examines potential interlanguage interferences in Italian-speaking learners of L2 Spanish and proposes a “modal map” as a tool to support the development of their L2 modal competence
Digitising Spanish-Italian bilingual Thesauri
Starting with a brief overview of the TELEI retrodigitised dictionary project, the article presents a study of Spanish Italian bilingual Thesaurus. It analyses the macrostructure of these dictionaries as well as the internal organization of their entries. The research addresses issues related to their encoding in XML TEI Lex-0, with the aim of retrodigitising these Thesaurus.
The retrodigitalization of the Italian-Spanish Vocabulary of O’Scanlan’s Spanish Maritime Dictionary
This paper offers the description and initial analysis of one of the texts of the TELEI project: the Vocabulario italiano-español of the Diccionario marítimo español (1831) by T. O’Scanlan. We present the main characteristics of the Diccionario and the Vocabulario, as a preliminary study for its structuring in interoperable format within the project’s database, and describe the criteria adopted for the annotation of the repertoire by TEI Lex-0.
Vocabolario italiano e spagnolo (1620) by Lorenzo Franciosini: representation of phrases for its digitisation
This research examines the challenges posed by the tagging of phrases in Franciosini’s Vocabolario italiano e spagnolo (1620) using the TEI Lex0 standard according to the TELEI (Tesoro Lexicográfico Español-Italiano) project protocol. This is a pilot study that allows the detections of tagging problems that could later be applied to the whole dictionary, which contains a wealth of fixed expressions that are not easy to systematize due to the inconsistency of their lexicographic representation.
The Diccionario de voces americanas by Ayala (1777) in the TLEAM: to sacrifice in the name of homogenization
The Tesoro lexicográfico del español en América (TLEAM) aims to bring together, on a single platform, all lexicographic works that account for the Spanish spoken in America, which requires the homogenization, both at the micro and macrostructural levels, of the listed works. Starting from Ayala’s Diccionario de voces americanas (1777), we will describe how efforts have been made to achieve a balance between respecting the fidelity of the originals and the harmonization required by editorialization.
Preliminary study for the retrodigitalisation of Ignacio de Boria’s Vocabulario Espanyol, Italiano y Tudesco
The study of the Vocabulario Espanyol, Italiano y Tudesco (1719) by Ignacio de Boria is part of the PRIN project Tesoro digital de la lexicografía bilingüe español-italiano (TELEI), directed by Carmen Castillo Peña. The main objective of the project is the preservation of the bilingual lexicographical heritage through critical editions and digital facsimiles. This article presents this repertoire, based on the German lexicographical tradition, and describes the relevant aspects of the preliminary analyses necessary for its critical edition and digitization.
The treatment of the feminine gender in the lexicographical sections of F. Marín’s L’italiano istruito…
This article examines how the feminine gender is addressed in the lexicographical sections of Francisco Marín’s L’italiano istruito nella cognizione della lingua spagnuola, with a focus on both linguistic and sociocultural perspectives. On a linguistic level, the graphic and typographic mechanisms used to represent grammatical gender will be analyzed. On a sociocultural level, both explicit and implicit ideas regarding womanhood will be explored. The graphic strategies used to represent grammatical gender will be shown to be varied and, in some respects, asymmetrical. However, from a sociocultural perspective, the main associations made are with traditional values and roles, representing womanhood primarily in relation to family, marriage, motherhood and as having a subordinate role in the public sphere. The overall analysis will demonstrate how Marín’s work not only serves a pedagogical function in the teaching of Spanish, but also offers valuable insight into the ideological conceptions of its time.
The digital transcription of the dictionary by L. Ambruzzi
Lucio Ambruzzi’s bilingual dictionary (DBA), published between 1948 and 1949, is a work that features encyclopedic elements. Its digitization presents challenges due to its complex microstructure and numerous abbreviations. The goal is to systematize its organization, clarify the abbreviations, and enhance its usability. This study explores both metalexicographical and linguistic aspects to optimize the dictionary’s function in digital format.
The Italian-Spanish section of Cormon and Manni’s Dictionary (1805): automatic transcription and ecdotic clues
The Diccionario de faltriquera italiano-español y español-italiano by Cormon and Manni (1805) is one of the dictionaries transcribed for digitalisation and publication in the Tesoro TELEI. This paper describes the typographical characteristics of the macrostructure and microstructure of the Italian-Spanish section, which have represented a difficulty in the automatic transcription, as well as the solutions that have been taken, also after a comparison with the primary sources and later published dictionaries on which this dictionary had an influence.
The digitisation of Lorenzo Franciosini’s Vocabolario italiano e spagnolo (1620): methodological challenges and new opportunities for its study
This article aims to examine the digitisation with XML-TEI encoding of Lorenzo Franciosini’s Vocabolario italiano e spagnolo (1620), a central work of Hispano-Italian lexicography of the Modern Age, within the framework of a research project currently underway. In addition to presenting the workflow and its phases, the contribution will show, thanks to relevant examples, how the digitisation process allows us to deepen our knowledge of the lexicographical work under study.
Lexicographical heritage, in its broadest sense, comprises all texts that compile lexical units from one or more languages ​​to explain their meaning, whether through definitions, examples, or intra- or interlinguistic equivalences. This implies that, in addition to alphabetical dictionaries—monolingual, bilingual, or multilingual; general, terminological, synonym or related words, etymological, historical, etc.—nomenclatures, conceptual dictionaries, and any lexical-onomasiological lists also form part of lexicographical heritage. Likewise, word lists that are part of the paratexts found in grammars and translations are included. The preservation of this vast and heterogeneous collection of texts is imperative, because dictionaries—all of them, from the most important to the most humble—are works that preserve not only the lexical heritage, but also the cultural heritage, as they are a testament to ideologies, worldviews, technical and scientific knowledge, as well as names of objects, species, customs and habits of a community at a given historical moment.
Federica Rocco (ed.), La rappresentazione dello stigma nella letteratura (e il cinema) di lingua spagnola
Federica Rocco (ed.), La rappresentazione dello stigma nella letteratura (e il cinema) di lingua spagnola, Pisa, ETS, 2022, 336 pp. ISBN 9788846764010
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José María Micó, L’equilibrio impossibile
José María Micó, L’equilibrio impossibile, traduzione e cura di Pietro Taravacci, Venezia, Molesini, 2025, 224 pp. ISBN 979-1281270169
Pedro Salinas, Poesie, Matteo Lefèvre (ed.), Milano, Garzanti, 2024, 579 pp. ISBN 978-8811006688
Benito Pérez Galdós, Elettra, studio di Victoria Galván-González e Carmen Márquez-Montes
Benito Pérez Galdós, Elettra, studio di Victoria Galván-González e Carmen Márquez-Montes, traduzione di Angela Moro, Pisa, Edizioni ETS, 2024, 253 pp. ISBN 978-8846769442
Antonio Enríquez Gómez, Política angélica
Antonio Enríquez Gómez, Política angélica. Sobre el gobierno que se debe tener con los reducidos a la fe católica y con los que se apartaron de ella, edición crítica, estudio y notas de Felice Gambin, Huelva, Universidad de Huelva, “Bibliotheca montaniana” 44, 2024, 268 pp. ISBN 978-8410326040
Luis de Góngora, Laura Dolfi (ed.), La costanza d’Isabella
Luis de Góngora, La costanza d’Isabella, nuova traduzione e cura di Laura Dolfi, Napoli, Liguori Editore, 2024, 334 pp. ISBN 978-8820770150
City and public space in the poetry of the mid-century: Ángel González, Carmen Martín Gaite and María Beneyto
The work proposes to study the poetic work of three central authors of the so-called “Spanish mid-century” –Ángel González, María Beneyto and Carmen Martín Gaite– whose centenary of birth is commemorated this year. In their productions it is possible to observe different modulation around spaces and the relationship of the poetic subject with the diverse territories that it inhabits and poetizes. From the “urban landscapes” of the Asturian, which determine a matrix of urban poetry that runs through his poetry collections in a historicist key, both as a testimonial and ironic one; passing through the suffocating interior and provincial worlds that clearly mark the initial poems of Martín Gaite and end up in the New York city as a site of identity searches; to the vein of urban poetry that renews in Beneyto’s work the plural facets of the subject that determined her early work, and turns towards the city, its actors and spaces most relegated in the social line of her production. Movements and displacements that concern both his and her poetic sayings and the place of the author and the female authors in the sociological map, determining their figures as writers in the literary field and, in the case of Beneyto and Martín Gaite, their place as women and as poets in the complex post-war cultural field.
The discursive status of Abya Yala’s literatures
The present work proposes to reflect on the discursive status of the indigenous literatures of Abya Yala in order to approach them as expressions of “poietic re-existence” against ontological and epistemic hierarchies dictated by Western literary traditions. Following the proposals for semantic decolonization of textual codes, we offer to think the oral textus not as a regressive derivation of litterae, but as the tissue that complements the written tesitura; therefore, we consider different levels of texts, broadening the criteria that define ‘intertextual’ practices. Likewise, this works problematizes the anthropological concept of ‘ethnicity’ applied to indigenous literatures, by orienting our argumentation towards the discursive universe of current Mapuche literature.
This article aims to study the function of onomastics in Quevedo’s pastoral poetry, especially, focusing on the analysis of toponymy, in relation to the bucolic tradition. The examination of this area, through the hydronyms and oronyms, will allow us to notice how the author consciously handles the onomastics resource, always at the service of this poetic subgenre. It will also reveal some possible literary influences which transcend the sphere of the pastoral, such as love poetry, historiography, mythology and the Bible.