VARIACIÓN. Revista de variación y cambio lingüistico

Fraseología contrastiva del chino y del español: un enfoque histórico

Fang Han — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

In the last decade, many scholars conducted Chinese-Spanish phraseological contrastive study from various perspectives. Most of them focus on the following areas: semantic-pragmatic, teaching, translation and sociolinguistic, because of semantic idiomaticity, universal cognitive process of human beings, and intercultural communication. Despite phraseological units are not eternal, but the result of a grammatical and semantic evolution, all these works focused on the perspective of synchronic. Therefore, we conducted this Chinese-Spanish phraseological contrastive study with a diachronic projection. This paper is formed by three sections: a brief presentation about its theoretical and methodological basis, and two cases in texts from different periods, which explained the definition of historical contrastive study of phraseological units, and its value for comparative phraseology.

Expresiones fraseológicas empleadas para presentar algo como un hecho asociadas a discursos especializados en portugués (siglos XVIII y XIX)

Carsten Sinner — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Since its foundation in 1779, the Academia de Ciências de Lisboa demanded objectivity and scientific neutrality from its members when submitting texts in the academic competitions. In this paper, using a mixed quantitative-qualitative method, we analyse a series of categorically formulated statements such as sendo indubitável que ‘undoubtedly’ or é bem sabido que ‘it is well known that’ that introduce premises of an argument without establishing arguments in the sense of categorical syllogisms. The study is carried out based on Memórias on agriculture, economics and agrarian economics published by the Academia between 1788 and 1821, considered fundamental in the history of science and scientific language in Portugal. The structures are analysed in the immediate contexts, their semantics in the given contexts are verified and the functional variants of a single pattern are determined from the perspective of linguistic of variation. From the functional analysis, we proceed to a phraseological classification: these are stereotypical constructions associated with certain discourses which admit the insertion of variable elements as complements; from the grammatical perspective, they are marker formulas to present facts or to identify something as evidence; from the pragmatic perspective, discourse markers of epistemic modality which indicate evidence.

Fraseología histórica en correspondencia privada aragonesa femenina del siglo XVIII: aproximación al análisis de locuciones en las cartas escritas por M.ª Francisca Ric (1746-1819)

Demelsa Ortiz Cruz — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

This study aims to analyze the locutions found within a dozen letters written by the Aragonese woman M.ª Francisca Ric y Pueyo (1746-1819). This approach is entirely novel, as there are no prior studies, based on a review of the literature on both diachronic gender studies grounded in private correspondence written by women and historical phraseology. Specifically, this contribution offers a comprehensive exploration of locutions of diverse natures (primarily verbal, but also numerous adverbial ones, alongside some instances of prepositional, conjunctive, adjectival, and nominal locutions) used by the aforementioned author in her texts from the final decades of the 18th century. To this end, all examples present in this corpus have been transcribed. Classified into three categories, contextual, lexicographical, and documentary information is provided, allowing for nuanced insights into nearly thirty units. This leads to interesting conclusions in many cases, contributing to the advancement of diachronic phraseological studies from a gender perspective.

Interés y vigencia de los fraseologismos recogidos por Juan de Iriarte (1774)

Thu, 05 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

In this paper, in addition to recalling the importance for phraseology studies of Refranes castellanos traducidos en verso latino by the Canarian humanist and Latinist Juan de Iriarte, representative of the Spanish Enlightenment, we deal with the historical background and the validity of the group of somatisms with barba (‘beard’) collected in this work. To this end, and starting from the studies of phraseology and, specifically, from the research in the field of somatisms, we have manually extracted the somatic phraseological units that appear there, classifying them by the somatonym they include. Then, we isolated the phraseologisms with barba and established groups taking into account the semantic and symbolic value that this somatonym represents. Next, we have analyzed, using the relevant bibliography and Spanish reference corpora, some of these units to verify their current use. Finally, we conclude that most of the units with this somatic lexeme are in disuse, among other reasons, because the underlying symbolism is no longer in line with current cultural values.

Fraseología en lexicografía misionera: el caso de uno de los lemarios en el Arte de Febrés

Soledad Chávez Fajardo, Roberto Bahamonde Andrade — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The present investigation is framed in the missionary linguistic historiography, specifically, within the lexicography, while it also connects with the historical phraseology (in its phraseographic aspect). The purpose is to analyze one of the lexicographical repertoires present in the Arte (1765) of the Manresa Jesuit Andrés Febrés. The selected lemmary is Breve Diccionario, and our first objective is to determine the phraseological units present in this lemmary with respect to the Spanish language. A second objective is to determine what type of phraseological units are present in this lemmary, which have a greater presence and, in turn, following the methodology of explanatory missionary linguistic historiography (Zimmermann, 2004), to determine the relevance of these units in a pedagogical and lexicographical tool, whose purpose is, prior to the process of evangelization, to learn and teach a non-Indo-European and scarcely codified language.

Aproximación a las fórmulas de despedida en el lenguaje comercial del siglo XVI. La correspondencia de Simón Ruiz

Amparo Ricós Vidal — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The approach to the routine formulas of farewell in the collection of letters of Simón Ruiz, typical of a specific epistolary subgenre and of a specific period, shows that it is a set of fixed structures, highly conventionalized and routinized, socially and culturally marked within the conventions of the standardized politeness of the time. The different linguistic patterns of each of these groups have been analyzed, as well as their fixation or variation. The analysis consists of two parts: on the one hand, we have studied the farewell formulas inherited from previous periods, some of them in decline at the end of the century, according to the corpus; on the other hand, it has been outlined the guidelines for examining the process of phraseologization of chained syntagmatic structures that make up the closing paragraphs of the letter. A first approach shows that by the end of this period these formulas had been pragmatized as mere phatic indicators of channel closure. The historical, social, cultural, textual, linguistic and pragmatic conditioning factors that lead to the absence of closing formulas in part of the letters remain to be studied.

A propósito de locuciones prepositivas en la literatura medieval del siglo XIV (Libro del caballero Zifar)

Adela García Valle — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

This work of historical phraseology analyses a series of locutionary prepositional combinations of causal, final, temporal and local meaning from a representative literary work of the 14th century, the Libro del caballero Zifar (The Book of the Knight Zifar). The study of the linguistic processes that have affected these structures will make it possible to check whether they are in the process of grammatical and lexical fixation in this century or, on the contrary, whether they have already become prepositional locutions proper at this early date, as could be the cases of por culpa de, por razón de, en derredor de, a la hora de, a servicio de, en tierra de, a honra de, a pro y a honra de, en guarda de, con intención de, con voluntad de.... Furthermore, the comparison of these structures with those found in medieval chronicles and notarial documentation also from the Middle Ages will facilitate the recognition of the similarities and differences between the structures of different textual types.

Mando dios por boca de moysen: for a diachrony of somatic complex prepositions from medieval biblical translations

Viorica Codita — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Two biblical translations of the Books of Maccabees from the 13th and 15th centuries, based on the Latin source, the Vulgate, constitute the corpus of this work, which focuses on the analysis of complex prepositions that include somatic lexemes (MANUS, FACIES). The comparison of various translations of the same text made at various temporal intervals offers an appropriate comparative framework for diachronic research, since it allows us to specify in detail the aspects of the use and dissemination of linguistic phenomena. The objective is to determine the distribution of these constructions, on the one hand, compared to those used in the base text and, on the other, with respect to the other solutions used by the corresponding Castilian translators. Our results show that while the 15th-century translation is immersed in the early fifteenth-century trend toward the use of Latinized structures, the 13th-century version does not present them in any appreciable way.

Entre el tiempo y el espacio: usos, variaciones y contrastes desde la fraseología histórica. Presentación

Juan Manuel Ribes Lorenzo — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

This introduction aims, on the one hand, to highlight the lack of academic engagement in the Nueva Gramática de la Lengua Española (both in its first edition [2009] and the revised and expanded version [2025]) with recent developments in the field of phraseology—particularly regarding the theoretical foundations for delimiting idiomatic expressions as syntactic units. On the other hand, this section also serves to present the scientific studies that comprise the thematic issue in which it is included.

Calderón Campos, Miguel y González Sopeña, Inmaculada (Eds.) (2023). Scripta Manent. Historia del español, documentación archivística y humanidades digitales. 670 pp. Peter Lang

Elisabert García Martín, Antonio Payán Gallardo — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

She Blanca Garrido Martín y Lola Pons Rodríguez (Eds.) (2023). Andalucía en su paisaje lingüístico: lenguas, signos y hablantes. Verba Anejo 85. Universidad de Santiago de Compostela. 229 pp

Clara Aragón Tello, Alba Gayol Fernández — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Luisa Martín Rojo, Camila Cárdenas Neira y Clara Molina Ávila (Eds.) (2023). Lenguas callejeras: paisajes colectivos de las lenguas que nos rodean. Guía para fomentar la conciencia sociolingüística crítica. 172 pp. Octaedro

Leticia Luna Rodríguez, Sara Subih, Monica Vera Durán — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Francisco García Marcos (2024). Los itinerarios lingüísticos de Marco Polo. 238 pp. Editorial Dykinson

Andrea Díaz Real, Ling Pan, Marina Vargas Rodríguez — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Jenny Brumme y Natalia Terrón Vinagre (Eds.) (2023). Emergencia de nuevos géneros textuales y terminología en la historia de los lenguajes de especialidad. 290 pp. Peter Lang

Daniel Ortuño Ibáñez, Sara Lorenzo Alcalá — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

María José Gallucci (2024). Polifonía y oralidad: el discurso referido en la entrevista sociolingüística en español. 236 pp. Editorial Universidad de Sevilla

Paula Gámez Jerez — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Le por les en la escritura periodística del español peninsular

María Victoria Galloso Camacho, Irene García López — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The validity of the discordance between the dative clitic pronoun and its plural nominal referent is remarkable. As a result, its use is on the increase and its use is booming and highly topical. In order to determine the use of le por les, a corpus of written language has been selected and analysed, specifically, texts from the press, and an online questionnaire has been elaborated and analysed. The aim is to compare and contrast the presence of the phenomenon in an oral/informal context with that in a written/formal context. In the same way, the development and increase of the phenomenon itself will be investigated, as well as its possible causes. In order to achieve this aim, both qualitative and quantitative research has been carried out, and one of the starting hypotheses has been concluded: increase in the written language, which is more favourable and feasible in the autonomous community of Andalusia.

Variación lingüística en la documentación histórica canaria (ss. XVI-XVIII). A propósito de la colección Documentos para la historia lingüística de Hispanoamérica, vol. II

Javier Medina López — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The article presents a historical corpus that has served as a basis for the analysis of the history of the Spanish language in the Canary Islands. Although it was published twenty-five years ago, it has not been analysed until now. The edition is situated in the new research trend that puts its focus on archival documentation and in which all kinds of documents are collected, overcoming the previous practices that had literary texts as references for the history of Spanish language. The texts belong to the collection Documentos para la historia lingüística de Hispanoamérica, vol. II, published in 2000 by the Royal Spanish Academy. The total of the 62 selected texts highlights the main trends in Spanish throughout the 16th to 18th centuries. The most outstanding feature is that of the seseo, which connects with the southern Spanish trends that expanded from the moment of the Canarian and American conquests. Other phenomena such as vowel hesitations, assimilations, dissimilations, morphological forms and some particularities of the lexicon are considered. It is concluded that a good part of the features described are characteristic of the general tendencies of the language, particularly in its southern and Atlantic aspects.

APPLYING EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY POLICIES TO THE WRITING OF COURSE GUIDES AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CASTILLA-LA MANCHA (SPAIN)

Ana Martín-Macho Harrison — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Spanish society’s growing awareness of sexism is reflected in different spheres. Among them, egalitarian language has recently become a polarised debate, the extremes of which are the normative and sociolinguistic positions. Given the need to adopt a more nuanced view of the relationship between grammatical gender and sexism (Escandell-Vidal, 2020), after defining the relationship between sex, grammatical gender and sociocultural gender, this article sets out the normative and sociolinguistic arguments regarding generic masculine in Spanish. It also explores the evolution of proposals such as the neuter morpheme -e. Arguments are presented in favour of the suitability of the course guide to comply with the legal framework that establishes both the use of egalitarian language and the defence of equality and diversity at UCLM. Some complementary guidelines and materials to the Conference of Rectors of Spanish Universities (CRUE)’s Recommendations for the Appropriate Use of Language in Universities and the UCLM's Guidelines for non-sexist language are provided. Finally, a checklist applicable to any course guide for compliance with current equality regulations is proposed. Beyond language, it includes suggestions for sections such as competences and bibliography.

/s/ aspiration in Andalusian Spanish in word internal position and across word boundaries: an experimental study of four cities

Paul O'Neill — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000

This study presents acoustic data relating to the realisation of coda /s/ in four cities in Andalusia. It differs from the majority of recent studies in that it analyses the effects of coda /s/ on all types of consonants, both word-internally and across word-boundaries. In the latter context, different morphological values of /s/ are also analysed. The results suggest that the phonological system of Andalusian Spanish is being radically altered. In word internal position, the historical effects of /s/ aspiration are producing a series of new incipient phonemic distinctions of which the most robust are elongated and/or aspirated consonants. As for across word-boundaries, the findings are only significantly different from word-internal coda /s/ for the city of Seville. For the speech of this city, it seems that /s/ has been lost / is being lost when it is a marker of 2sg on verbs and plural on nouns. However, when /s/ is part of lexeme, i.e. in the word dos ‘two’, the phonetic cues are robust and similar to those in word-internal position. I end the article with a tentative hypothesis as to how this situation could be effecting the morphological system and point to possible future developments.

LANGUAGE, POLITICS, AND POWER

Matthew Pollock — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Abstract

Politicians style-shift between regional and national variants as a means of constructing a coherent identity and appealing to voters. In Spain, previous research in the south has shown how conservatives may favor normative national variants, while socialists employ regional ones to connect with working-class and rural communities. However, little research has examined political speech in Spanish in the north of the country.

The current study examines how six rural speakers and six politicians from Galicia use sociophonetic variation, including consonant clusters, word-final /n/, vowel height, intervocalic /d/, and coda /s/. Findings reveal that politicians' speech reflects previously observed trends: usage varies by the party and social context of the speaker, with intervocalic /d/ elision occurring more frequently among politicians than rural speakers. This supports previous hypotheses about stylistic variation in Peninsular Spanish political speech. Furthermore, by analyzing regionally salient phenomena, this study develops a baseline for Galician political speech, showing how stylistic choices align with broader patterns in Peninsular Spanish, demonstrating the agentive use of language to navigate identity and sociopolitical positioning.