La escritura epistolar y la enseñanzade lenguas: los manuales prácticos decorrespondencia comercial de G. B. Melzi (1878)

Epistolary writing and the teaching of languages: the practical manuals of commercial correspondence by G. B. Melzi (1878)

M.ª Ángeles García Aranda

Romanica Olomucensia 2019, 31(1):1-20 | DOI: 10.5507/ro.2019.001  

The increase in commercial transactions during the 19th century led to an important growth in the publication of commercial teaching materials in the form of what were known as correspondence arts or manuals. This paper deals with the ones that were written, and adapted to four languages, with the title Practical Handbook of Commercial Correspondence, by Giovanni Battista Melzi, who, following the classics, considers that letters are written conversations and, therefore, the best way to learn a foreign language. In these pages a detailed analysis of Melzi's manual, adapted to French, English, Italian, German, and Spanish (1878), is presented and the...

Controversie nello stabilimento del modo potenziale: analisi testuale e traduttologica dell‘espressione del futuro e dell‘ipotesi in italiano e in spagnolo medievali

Debate on the potential mood: textual and traductological analysis of the expression of hypothesis and the future in middle Italian and middle Spanish

José García-Fernández

Romanica Olomucensia 2019, 31(1):21-35 | DOI: 10.5507/ro.2019.002  

The potential mood has been a matter of long-standing controversy. In Italian Studies, conditional verb forms have traditionally belonged to this category, frequently called the conditional mood, even when Alarcos Llorach includes future tenses in it, too. Following the functionalist principles of Hispanic linguistics, Alarcos defends the position that the future should be included within the conditional mood. According to this innovative claim, in line with the ideas advocated by the linguist Pavao Tekavčić, Emilio Alarcos' proposal has proved to be perfectly applicable to Italian. This is the reason why a contrastive perspective has been adopted....

À propos de la productivité lexicale actuelle du formant « cyber »

About the current lexical productivity of the word-forming element "cyber"

Dagmar Koláříková

Romanica Olomucensia 2019, 31(1):37-51 | DOI: 10.5507/ro.2019.003  

Cyber is a neologism based on cybernetics, a term popularized by the American mathematician Norbert Wiener in the 1940s. Wiener derived it from the Greek word kubernētēs, which refers to a pilot or steersman. From that, a slew of words came into existence to describe everything from people's names to types of crime. This article describes the productivity that cyber has recently achieved in the French language. The corpus that is examined is formed from French dictionaries, lists of neologisms from the French review La Banque des mots, and from the Néoveille Platform. The search results for compounds starting...

Inmigración y deseo en la ciudadde la bailanta de Washington Cucurto

Immigration and desire in the city of Washington Cucurto

Celia de Aldama Ordónez

Romanica Olomucensia 2019, 31(1):53-61 | DOI: 10.5507/ro.2019.004  

Taking a panoramic perspective as a starting point, the analysis proposed here of the short stories of the Argentine writer Washington Cucurto intends to relate them to the pornoerotic literature that has been booming in the cultural milieu of Buenos Aires in recent decades. First, the author will be contextualized as an heir of such literary aesthetics and second, a brief overview of the changes that have occurred in the literary representation of eroticism from the '80s to the first years of the 21st century will be provided. The second part of the research will focus on the analysis of three of his most read stories - "El barrio de las siervas",...

L'ironie au prisme du regard adolescent :analyse des mécanismes de l'ironie et dudiscours critique dans Les petites reines de Clémentine Beauvais

Irony under a teenager's gaze: an analysis of the mechanisms of irony and critical discourse in Les petites reines by Clémentine Beauvais

Camylle Gauthier-Trépanier

Romanica Olomucensia 2019, 31(1):63-78 | DOI: 10.5507/ro.2019.005  

Some psychological and linguistic studies have demonstrated children's ability to identify and understand ironic statements. This ability can be seen in youth literature, where irony is often used by teen characters for numerous reasons. However, there is very little work on irony in youth literature. First, the study seeks to identify the ironic discourse in Clémentine Beauvais' novel Les petites reines, using the work of Philippe Hamon, Wayne Booth, and Linda Hutcheon. In second, an attempt will be made to show the strategies used to integrate ironic discourse into a youth novel. Les petites reines integrates structures and functions...

La mémoire migrante : Les urnes scellées d'Emile Ollivier

The migrant memory: Les urnes scellées by Emile Ollivier

Květuše Kunešová

Romanica Olomucensia 2019, 31(1):79-89 | DOI: 10.5507/ro.2019.006  

This article deals with the motifs of the present and the past in the work of Emile Ollivier, a modern Quebecois writer of Haitian origin, whose texts are permeated by images that pertain, on the one hand, to his exile in Canada and, on the other hand, to the picture of the native country as a souvenir. The problematics of temporality and memory are analyzed in detail by Paul Ricœur in his works Temps et récit and La mémoire, l'histoire, l'oubli, which are thus chosen as the main methodological references of this paper. In migrant literature, however, temporality is closely related to spatiality, as has been noted by Quebecois literary...

La riscoperta del mito nella letteratura italiana degli anni quaranta: Carlo Levi e Cesare Pavese

The rediscovery of the myth in Italian literature in the forties: Carlo Levi and Cesare Pavese

Luciano Lagazzi

Romanica Olomucensia 2019, 31(1):91-103 | DOI: 10.5507/ro.2019.007  

During the 1940s, Carlo Levi and Cesare Pavese reflected on the topic of myth, both in relation to the classical tradition and to the manipulation of mythological materials by European dictatorial regimes. This interest, nurtured in Levi by the relationship with the archaic life and culture of the Lucanian peasants and in Pavese by his focus on texts on the history of religions and anthropology, was transferred into books and cultural operations that are important for a profound rethinking, philosophical and literary, of the myth. On the basis of that "knowledge for citations" that was so dear to Benjamin and Jesi, an attempt is made to let the authors...

Les incidences de la mondialisation sur les manuels universels d’enseignement du français langue étrangère du début du 21e siècle

The implications of globalization for textbooks of French as a foreign language from the beginning of the 21st century

François Schmitt

Romanica Olomucensia 2019, 31(1):105-119 | DOI: 10.5507/ro.2019.008  

Globalization, which concerns all aspects of material, cultural, and social life, is giving rise to a new kind of transnational cosmopolitism that is more and more detached from its national ties and which has as its cultural reference the world culture that is common to the whole of human society, beyond national differences. Globalization has a huge impact on the didactics of French as a foreign language, which reacts to this impact by liberating itself from its national framework. Now language is considered as a global product liberated from its national ties and the learner is seen as a player in transnational globalization. The impact of globalization...

Distopía e intertextualidad en El año del verano que nunca llegó de William Ospina

Dystopia and intertextuality in El año del verano que nunca llegó by William Ospina

Yadira Segura Acevedo

Romanica Olomucensia 2019, 31(1):121-136 | DOI: 10.5507/ro.2019.009  

The latest novel by the Colombian writer William Ospina, El año del verano que nunca llegó, is written on the basis of an important literary palimpsest, grounded in two great myths of nineteenth-century literature - Frankenstein, by the English writer Mary W. Shelley, and The Vampire, by the British author John William Polidori. Given the dystopian characteristics of Shelley's work, the study performed by Ospina in his novel focuses on Frankenstein, a story in which the creation of life and artificial intelligence finds its maximum expression in the irrational nature of one of the most famous monsters of universal literature....

Humour et érotisme dans les œuvresd'écrivaines contemporaines de langue française et espagnole

Humor and eroticism in works written by contemporary female Spanish and French writers

Mathilde Tremblais

Romanica Olomucensia 2019, 31(1):137-151 | DOI: 10.5507/ro.2019.010  

This paper presents the issue of humour in French and Spanish contemporary erotic literature and, especially, in works written by women. The women who are studied in this paper are Régine Deforges, Françoise Rey, Alina Reyes, and Catherine Millet for French literature and Mercedes Abad, Ana Rossetti, Almudena Grandes, and Isabel Franc for Spanish literature. In the first place, the conceptual approach of connecting humour and erotisism, two concepts between which it is possible to establish various analogies, has been used. In the second place, a thematic and formal study has been carried out to identify the main distinctive characteristics that humour...

Job, André – Coyault, Sylviane (dir.) (2018), Dictionnaire Jean Giraudoux

Marie. Voždová

Romanica Olomucensia 2019, 31(1):153-155