Estudios Filológicos

The scene as the form of ironic enunciation

Juan Campesino — 2025-06-25

Understanding theatricality as the referential axis of irony, this paper characterizes scene as the pragmatic exponent of theatrical enuntiation; that is to say, as the referrer format of irony. In that order, it analyses the formal conditions tied to the scene’s spatial character that make possible transiting from imitated things to the imitation itself, in which case word and action adopt specific pre-textual qualities as they are embodied by the actor and the irionist.

Common spaces in the sonnets to the Virgin by Carlos Pellicer and José Lezama Lima

Ángel Esteban — 2025-06-25

Carlos Pellicer and José Lezama Lima wrote sonnets dedicated to the Virgin Mary in the 1940s, when their respective works were not yet known by each other. In spite of this, and taking into account that their aesthetic presuppositions and styles were very different, there are remarkable parallels and similarities between both series of sonnets, especially between the first and fourth of Lezama’s sonnets, and the first series and the fourth of three sonnets by Pellicer. His poetry can be studied under the theoretical umbrella that alludes to the similarities and differences between religious, ascetic and mystical poetry. Lezama is hermetic and baroque in his writing procedures, and Pellicer is simpler and richer in physical sensations ascertainable in chronotopic parameters. However, at the end of each of these sonnet homages, Lezama brings a certain simplicity and Pellicer is infected by the hermeticism and abstraction of mystical phenomena, which contributes to the configuration of common spaces between the works of the two poets.

Winétt de Rokha and the surrealist drift. A journey from Formas del sueño (1927) to El valle pierde su atmósfera (1949)

Laura María Martínez-Martínez — 2025-06-25

The poetic work of Winétt de Rokha (1894-1951) has long been overshadowed by that of her partner, Pablo de Rokha. Although the pioneering works of María Inés Zaldívar (2005) and Javier Bello (2008) have partially rectified this oversight, there is still much that remains unknown. The aim of this paper is to propose that Winétt de Rokha, at the same time as developing an avant-garde and political poetics, was the protagonist of an ascending surrealist drift. To do so, I will first analyse her connections with the Chilean surrealist group La Mandrágora, and then study Formas del sueño (1927), “Lenguaje sin palabras” from Oniromancia (1943), and El valle pierde su atmósfera (1949).

“Hemos sido libres, lo somos y lo seremos”: Spain as eternal utopia in the nationalist speech of Manuel Fernández y González

Javier Muñoz-de-Morales-Galiana — 2025-06-25

This paper tries to analyse the nationalist discourse by Manuel Fernández y González, the most prolific novelist of the Spanish XIX century, and also one of the best playwrights of the second half of that century, whose impact on the popular culture of that time justifies that his ideology deserves to be studied. The excursuses of his novels are the main source we have used, because in them he directly exposes his political opinions. In order to do this, we have selected two texts in which he inserts very revealing digressions, La honra y el trabajo (1867) and Cid Rodrigo de Vivar (1875). Attention has been paid to the logical fallacies that they used there, but we have also considerate the context in which these works were published as popular literature, and also the nationalist prejudices that prevailed at that time, and that gave rise to that type of ideas. From all of this, we have been able to infer that this writer notably disseminated among the working classes a discourse that assumed Spain as an eternal utopia where freedom would always exist thanks to an alleged rebellious character attributed to spaniards.

Figurations of the intellectual in El camino de Ida by Ricardo Piglia

Catherina Saavedra — 2025-06-25

In this article I will analyze the masculine representations of the intellectual portrayed in the novel El camino de Ida (2013) by Ricardo Piglia: Emilio Renzi, an Argentine writer, and Thomas Munk, a brilliant mathematician. This investigation will be carried out with the aim of unraveling how this subjectivity is represented in the novelistic plot, in addition to carrying out a diagnosis on whether it is possible to be an authentic intellectual in the referential reality, under the theory of the public role of the intellectual as a disturber of the status quo that Edward Said deploys in his book Representaciones del intellectual (1994).

Ideological variations of the indigenist discourse in the poetry of Winétt de Rokha, Olga Acevedo and Gabriela Mistral

Francisco Simon — 2025-06-25

This article analyzes different poems by Winétt de Rokha, Olga Acevedo and Gabriela Mistral, in attention to the ideologemes they use to represent the Mapuche people and the colonial violence executed by the Chilean State. From a sociocritic perspective, it is proposed that these authors create three types of indigenist discourse, according to the ideological systems with which they sympathize: revolutionary in de Rokha, mestizo-socialist in Acevedo and social-Christian in Mistral.

Epistemic modality and evidentiality. Issues and proposal

Bora Choi — 2025-06-25

After several decades of research on epistemic modality and evidentiality, a problem still present in the literature is that there is no consensus on how to define these two categories as linguistic phenomena and, consequently, the terms epistemic modality and evidentiality are used to refer to the divergent linguistic realities by each researcher. This paper aims to clarify the conceptual and terminological confusions that persist regarding epistemic modality and evidentiality through a crosslinguistic reflection based on a general review of previous proposals and empirical data documented in different languages. It will be also questioned the categorization of evidentiality as modal category and it will be proposed considering it as an attitudinal category jointly with the epistemic modality. This paper will provide a general theoretical basis of the categories in question for their application to particular languages.

Living with chronic pain: the use of conceptual metaphors as a resource for the construction of affect in accounts by endometriosis patients

Carolina Magnere-Maldonado — 2025-06-25

This article focuses on identifying and understanding the use of conceptual metaphors by Chilean patients with endometriosis, analyzing how these metaphors encode affection in their narratives and their impact on the perception and management of the disease. Through Systemic Functional Linguistics and the Theory of Conceptual Metaphor, 30 interviews with diagnosed women were analyzed. An extensive use of metaphorical and affective language was found, highlighting 196 instances that reflect the emotional aspects of endometriosis. These results underline the importance of metaphorical language in structuring patients’ experiences, offering a deep understanding of how they comprehend and approach their condition, and providing a valuable perspective on the emotional management of this complex illness.

Paremias as a vector of linguistic and cultural transfer in cameroonian literature in spanish language: a case study of Diario de Hoo and El hijo varón by Germain Metanmo and Me llamo Kanebe by Céline Manéché Ndé Sika

Issacar Nguendjo-Tiogang — 2025-06-25

Spanish as a foreign language in Africa has been gaining ground and importance over the years. Evidence of this is the number of writers and literary productions known on the continent. The vast majority of these authors are French-speaking and have inherited the Spanish language primarily through the French colonial education system implemented in their former colonies. Cameroon, a country in the continental center, saw its first short story published in 1953 by Germain Metanmo, one of the two authors in our corpus, along with Céline Manéché Ndé. Both authors represent important figures in the emerging Cameroonian literature in Spanish. This article draws inspiration from their novels to demonstrate that the paremias abundant in their texts are vectors of linguistic and cultural transfer. Indeed, through phraseology, these authors transfer ideas from their native culture to the Spanish language, thereby contributing to the enrichment of Hispanic culture in general.

The expression of the personal pronoun subject in the urgent interpellations of the Spanish Parliament

Magnolia Troya-Déniz — 2025-06-25

This article focuses on the analysis of the expression of the subject personal pronoun. In contrast to the numerous studies that examine this phenomenon in the conversational speech of different communities in Spain and America, we study the presence and absence of the pronoun in the urgent interpellations of the Spanish Parliament. The results reveal that there are different tendencies in this discursive genre, orally materialized in a formal communicative situation after a previous elaboration process, from those observed in conversational speech. Statistical analysis of the data will allow us to establish the internal and external factors which are significantly associated with the expression and omission of the pronominal subject, to know the intensity of these associations and to determine the categories of each independent variable which contribute to the value of the contrast statistic. Finally, binomial logistic regression analysis will provide the explanatory models of variation.

Correlation between path verb lexicon and binary typology of motion event: a contrastive study between Chinese, Spanish, and English

Tao Zhang — 2025-06-25

There are two perspectives on the relationship between path verb lexicon and a language’s dominant pattern —verb-framed language (VFL) or satellite-framed language (SFL)—: Matsumoto (2003) considers that the path verb lexicon of a language is partially independent of its dominant pattern, while Verkerk (2014, 2015) argues that VFLs have more path verbs that describe Path in more detail than SFLs. In this article, we build a path verb lexicon that does not exist in Chinese (SFL), and we contrast it with that of Spanish (VFL) and English (SFL) coming mainly from Cifuentes (2008). The study shows that Chinese path verb lexicon is basically independent of its dominant pattern and that Chinese has more path verbs that describe Path with more granularity than Spanish and English.

Discursive community, purposes and participants on Iván Carrasco’s Poesía Mapuche. Mundos superpuestos. A linguistic approach

Cecilia Quintrileo-Llancao — 2025-06-25

Introducción

La presente nota se enmarca en la presentación de la obra Poesía Mapuche. Mundos Superpuestos (2019), de Iván Carrasco Muñoz, académico y crítico literario, reconocido como figura clave en el posicionamiento y visibilización de nuevos corpus de estudio, “superpuestos” a la literatura chilena. El objetivo de su investigación es trazar el recorrido de un vasto campo de estudio, desarrollado en los últimos cincuenta años, contribuyendo al diálogo crítico acerca de la literatura mapuche en general, y de su poesía, en particular. A través de un contrapunto autobiográfico y analítico, en Poesía Mapuche. Mundos superpuestos, Iván Carrasco consolida y sella una trayectoria investigativa, orientada al estudio de un conjunto de escritos que denomina Poesía Mapuche, a la luz de una serie de rasgos distintivos, propios de la estructura retórica de este género literario…

Unstable bodies as a form of estrangement. On Simón Villalobos’s Otras ciudades están prendidas a un cuerpo inestable

Pedro Ignacio Tapia-León — 2025-06-25

En Otras ciudades están prendidas a un cuerpo inestable1 (en adelante Otras ciudades…, Traza Editora, 2024) de Simón Villalobos, llama la atención de entrada este título tan sugerente. Desde ahí se expande un horizonte de preguntas y posibilidades: ¿Qué representa este cuerpo inestable? ¿Cuáles son las ciudades que expone el sujeto lírico? ¿Cómo se escribe la inestabilidad en el lenguaje poético?

Antes de responder a estas interrogantes y adentrarse hacia una aproximación del texto, se contextualiza dónde se inserta el autor y su propuesta escritural. Simón Villalobos Parada (Santiago, 1980) es poeta, profesor universitario, doctor en literatura y editor. Además, es autor de Edad oscura (AM libros, 2010), Voca (Piedra de Sol, 2011), Ninguna parte esta ceguera (Cuadro de Tiza, 2014) y Los cercos (Armatia, 2018). Sus poemas han sido incluidos en antologías y muestras como Desencanto personal (Cuarto Propio, 2004), Lof sitiado, homenaje poético al pueblo mapuche de Chile (Lom, 2011), Bombardeo de poemas sobre Berlín (DIRAC, 2011) y Poesía, deriva y memoria (Pez Espiral, 2023). También es uno de los integrantes del colectivo de escritoras(es) Traza.