Diccionario del español de Centroamérica - los usos lingüísticos en la literatura social de América Central

Esta obra lexicográfica saca toda su sustancia de la literatura social contemporánea de los seis países del Istmo centroamericano (unas cien referencias literarias de los años 1920 a 1990), y consta de más de 1300 artículos que representan unas 1500 acepciones ejemplificados por 2222 citas.Este diccionario se ha hecho desde una óptica claramente descriptiva, sintética y, como ya lo hemos señalado, didáctica, lo que lo convierte en el primero de esta índole y de esta envergadura respecto al área geográfica contemplada. Por su naturaleza regional (o “plurinacional”) y su presentación “unificadora” (o por lo menos “homogénea”), este catálogo de voces españolas “diferenciadas” responde también, en cierto modo, a la política lexicográfica, a la vez abierta y federativa, llevada desde hace ya algunos años por la Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española. El trabajo se inscribe, por lo tanto, en la línea de concepción de las publicaciones, recientes o por venir, de dicha instancia científica, como son el joven Diccionario panhispánico de dudas, o el inminente Diccionario académico de americanismos. Este último –así como el futuro Atlas Lingüístico de América Central (ALAC), será, sin lugar a dudas, sumamente instructivo y de una ayuda imprescindible para los muchos estudiosos de la lengua española

The Interliterary substitution or foreign literary borrowing as a traductological resort. About the best way for the translator to couple the Spanish prose together with the French poetry

It is of common knowledge that literary translation, more than the transposition of a language into another one is the transposition of a culture into another one and, even more, that of a literary tradition into another one. We mean to show here that if translating is subject to linguistic constraints which make it a scientific activity, it is connected in other respects (by the involvement of the literary culture of the translator and the acuteness of its pen) with own interpretative options that make it an artistic activity. Our French version of a few excerpts from modern Spanish novels will enable to ascertain more clearly how a poetic borrowing drawn out of the target literary culture (in the circumstances, the French one) can represent a first-rate traductological resort. The examples in question will finally show how the translator may be led to couple the Spanish prose together with the French poetry, for both ethical and aesthetic reasons

La impronta de la oralidad en las creaciones literarias centroamericanas: apuntes para una fenomenología de los rasgos fonológicos

In the present analysis –fragment of a larger research concerning the “aesthetic aspect” of the Central American discourse, namely: the lexical specific features and other regional dialects– we have in mind to concentrate on the phonological aspects of the discourse in question by methodical reviewing of the phonemic modifications that the writers have endeavoured to reproduce there, particularly in dialogical constructions. In order to make easier the understanding of those Central American works whose aim consists in explaining precisely the weight of the oral character, it seems appropriate to arrange here briefly in a system the phonemic shifts or regional polymorphic achievements that are detectable in those texts

Quand un seul ‘être’ vous manque : regard français sur la bivalence culturelle de l’ ‘être’ dans la langue espagnole à travers une perception cervantesque des verbes SER et ESTAR

La traduction en espagnol du verbe "être" français a toujours présenté des difficultés à tous les niveaux d’étude de la langue de Cervantès, puisque à un signifiant unique français correspondent deux signifiants espagnols. Outre les aspects purement grammaticaux et sémantiques qui sont à rappeler (liés à des principes fonctionnels pour les premiers, et polysémiques pour les seconds), il est intéressant d’aborder la dualité de l’objet d’étude d’un point de vue culturel, voire philosophique, pour ne pas dire métaphysique. C’est ce que nous avons tenté de faire en effectuant un parallélisme entre la complémentarité du binôme verbal "ser" et "estar", et la complémentarité du "couple littéraire" emblématique de Don Quichotte et Sancho Panza

Interprétation et traduction de quarante constructions phraséologiques et terminologiques asturiennes (Guatemala) – Un nécessaire retour aux sources conceptuelles

In literary texts the developed ideas are often just a pretext for original discursive creations from certain authors to such an extent that the referential function of the language steps aside to bring out its poetical function. We are basing our argument on some forty examples extracted from seven works in prose by the Guatemalan writer Miguel Angel ASTURIAS in order to put forward different translation (or tradaptation) techniques of phonic and/or semic plays on words taken from Spanish either motivated by link up or based on live metaphors, whether it is about creations or paremic de-fossilizations, or else formal neologisms. The search for a similarity of effect (or a rhetoric equivalent) made possible by adaptation – and even by rephrasing – of the linguistic segments of the matter in hand, will at the best (and the simplest) result in isomorphic, and usually homomorphic, sometimes in heteromorphic translations and, very rarely, in interpretative or free translations. In this way, we can conclude that it is possible that a formal gap, deliberately used by the translator, may prove to be more faithful in spirit to the original text than a simple calque

Figures de Rhétorique dans Le Seigneur des Anneaux de J.R.R. Tolkien : Approche exploratoire d’une œuvre d’inspiration fondamentalement linguistique

The growing academic respect for and interest in Professor Tolkien’s Legendarium together with his worldwide popularity not only stem from his treatment of great literary themes and his recognized talent as a story-teller but also, as Tolkien scholar Michael Drout points out, from his ability to “produce aesthetic effects simultaneously on multiple levels, so that the effects created […] are connected with the themes of cultural interaction and individual morality that are integral to Tolkien’s vision”. This paper examines the author’s meticulous craftsmanship in his handling of rhetorical figures and their interrelationships with the principles of the world thus sub-created

Hacia un diccionario español-francés de centroamericanismos léxicos: una elaboración dual, por extracción literaria y confirmación de usos

The very substance of the indigenous narratives of Central America (1920-1970) has led us to analyze the regional linguistic idiosyncracies they contain, i.e. their formal constituents. The “screening” of some hundred literary works allowed us to create the first sizeable specific lexicon of this geographic area and of the “extended” period 1920-1990. Using a syntagmatic corpus (literary discourse or textual data), we built up a paradigmatic corpus of independent and reusable language units, with a clear descriptive, synthetic and didactic intention. Our purpose here is to offer the double methodological approach to our Dictionary of Central American Spanish whose actualized and bilingual Spanish-French version is now ready