Articulación de códigos semióticos en la interacción tripulante/pasajero: la educación del pasajero de línea aérea

The articulation of semiotic codes in cabin crew/passenger interaction: the education of an airline passenger

Lorena M. A. de- Matteis

Romanica Olomucensia 2015, 27(1):1-20 | DOI: 10.5507/ro.2015.001  

Airline passengers receive flight safety information from two sources. The first one combines the verbal and gestural codes and takes place before each flight. The second combines the verbal code, in a written form, and the visual code through the safety cards present in the seats of the plane. The aim of this paper is to analyze the relationship between the various codes airlines employ to educate passengers, considering how similar meanings are expressed in them. Data were collected by combining the methodology of participant observation on domestic flights with the analysis of the safety cards used by companies operating in Argentina during the...

O discurso jurídico como la brisure: uma análise discursivo-desconstrutivista da lei Maria da Penha

Juridical discourse as la brisure: a deconstructive-discursive analysis of the Maria da Penha law

Vânia Maria Lescano Guerra, Willian Diego de Almeida

Romanica Olomucensia 2015, 27(1):21-39 | DOI: 10.5507/ro.2015.002  

The aim of this work is to discuss the stereotyping of the meaning effects that emerge in the legal discourse of the Maria da Penha Law. The hypothesis is that the law, which sought to include females in the order of legal discourse, (re-) affirms the marginalization of Brazilian women. The study is guided by the following theoretical contributions: the discursive perspective of the French approach, Foucault's concepts of Archaeology and Genealogy, and Derrida's deconstruction theory. The results lead to the conclusion that this particular law is inevitably affected by subjectivity having meaning effects that maintain the power of submission, beliefs,...

La recherche qualitative en sociolinguistique de contact en langues romanes : évidences systémiques, évidences anthropologiques

Qualitative research in the sociolinguistics of contact in Romance languages: systemic evidence, anthropological evidence

Frank Jablonka

Romanica Olomucensia 2015, 27(1):41-56 | DOI: 10.5507/ro.2015.003  

The present article considers the divergences between quantitative and qualitative field approaches, especially on the basis of examples of empirical studies in variational sociolinguistics in contact situations in the Aosta Valley and in Morocco. One of the critical points is the question of representativity. Contrary to quantitative research, qualitative approaches are not interested in numerical but in exemplary representativity. From the viewpoint of the anthropology of communication, it is possible to integrate the "macro" into the "micro" perspective. This research strategy converges with the paradigm of complexity adapted to sociolinguistics,...

Femme, je ne cesse pas d'écrire ton nom… À propos de la féminisation des noms de métiers, titres, grades et fonctions

Woman, I go on writing your name... On the feminization of names of professions, titles, degrees and functions

Jitka Janoušková

Romanica Olomucensia 2015, 27(1):57-71 | DOI: 10.5507/ro.2015.004  

This article deals with the controversial topic of the linguistic feminization of French. First, it concentrates on the relationship between a language and a society and subsequently it recapitulates the approaches and political steps taken in France and the Francophone regions of Belgium, Switzerland and Canada. Second, it summarizes the results of diverse studies on the effects of this feminization so that progress in this matter can be evaluated. Part of the article is devoted to a lexical analysis carried out in a French web corpus.

Communication à caractère émotionnel dans l'espace virtuel : questions quantitatives sur un corpus tchaté

Communication of emotional nature in virtual space: quantitative questions on a chat corpus

Jan Lazar

Romanica Olomucensia 2015, 27(1):73-80 | DOI: 10.5507/ro.2015.005  

The enormous development of new communicative technologies, among which electronic communication plays a prominent role, is one of the main characteristics of life today. Nowadays, computer-mediated communication has become so common and easy that it is no longer possible for us to ignore it. Although the communication in chat rooms is never produced face-to-face, it could preserve some of the characteristics of real communication. This type of communication, in the absence of sense contact and para-verbal features, adds another scale of features to the "spoken" theme that are largely able to replicate spontaneous oral communication. It is advisable...

Identidades colectivas en el discurso político-mediático venezolano: el Aló, Presidente y la representación de la sociedad venezolana

Collective identities in political-media discourse in Venezuela: Aló, Presidente and the representation of Venezuelan society

Lilia M. Ramírez Lasso

Romanica Olomucensia 2015, 27(1):81-99 | DOI: 10.5507/ro.2015.006  

Political and media discourse has a key role in the process of the reconfiguration of the Venezuelan public sphere and the transformation of society and political representation currently going on in Venezuela. This process implies the symbolic construction of new social identities (people, oligarchy), political identities (chavistas, revolutionaries; opposition, antichavistas), and government identities (consejos comunales, comunas), as well as the construction of new meanings in another group of social identities (afrodescendants, farmers, fishers, students, women, ancestral peoples, poor people, and others). Then it is important to study the construction...

Exilio y desexilio en la obra de Mario Benedetti. El caso de Andamios

Exile and desexile in Mario Benedetti's work. Andamios

Mercedes Andrés

Romanica Olomucensia 2015, 27(1):101-111 | DOI: 10.5507/ro.2015.007  

This article is a brief review of Mario Benedetti's exile literature, in its lyrical and narrative form. Then it focuses on the most relevant thematic and stylistic features of the exile novel, with particular emphasis on Andamios in order to prove its common features with other works, notably Primavera con una esquina rota.

El verso de las traducciones de La vida es sueño al checo: el caso de la octava

The verse of the translations into Czech of Life is a Dream: the case of octava

Jan Darebný

Romanica Olomucensia 2015, 27(1):113-124 | DOI: 10.5507/ro.2015.008  

The objective of this article is to present the methodology used in the author's investigation which deals with a comparison of Spanish dramatic verse and its translations into Czech from the point of view of versology and the theory and history of translation. In this study the verse of the four Czech translations of Calderón de la Barca's play Life Is a Dream is analysed.

Ritmo de murga porteña en la ciudad eterna: ¿murga romana o murga argentina?

The rhythm of the murga porteña in the eternal city: Roman murga or Argentinian murga?

Florencia Liffredo

Romanica Olomucensia 2015, 27(1):125-139 | DOI: 10.5507/ro.2015.009  

The murga is the typical expression of the Argentinian carnival: it is a combination of dance, percussion and vocals, which expresses both a form of street art and a form of social criticism. The first "Argentinian" murga in Rome, called Sin Permiso, was organised in 2002. It was created by Argentinian citizens living in Rome, who met up in the Centro Sociale Occupato Autogestito, a centre of alternative culture in Italy. Over time, the Sin Permiso murga split up, giving birth to different murgas in the city. These were mostly Italians and a few Argentinians and gained a central place within the Roman counterculture scene and the mobilizations against...

Il giardino di Venere nei poemi Urania di Giovanni Pontano e Stanze di Angelo Poliziano

Venus' garden in the poems of Giovanni Pontano's Urania and Angelo Poliziano's Stanze

Alicja Raczyńska

Romanica Olomucensia 2015, 27(1):141-149 | DOI: 10.5507/ro.2015.010  

The aim of the paper is to compare the description of Venus' garden in famous poems by two remarkable representatives of the Italian Quattrocento - Giovanni Pontano's Urania and Angelo Poliziano's Stanze. Both these humanists found their source of inspiration in Claudian's Epithalamium de nuptiis Honorii et Mariae. The intertextual dialogue between the work of the Italian authors and the ancient text will be examined.

Enrique Gutiérrez Rubio, Metonimia y derivación sufijal en español. Estudio multidimensional de los mecanismos conceptuales que rigen la formación de palabras mediante sufijación en español

Iva Brabcová

Romanica Olomucensia 2015, 27(1):151-152  

Zuzana Raková, La traduction tchèque du français

Jan Lazar

Romanica Olomucensia 2015, 27(1):152-153  

Miroslav Valeš - Slavomír Míča (eds.), Diversidad lingüística del español

Iva Novotná

Romanica Olomucensia 2015, 27(1):153-155