bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
El COC del CUB: un corpus per a l'estudi de la conversa col·loquial
Authors: Oller Anna , Alturo Núria , Bladas Òscar , Payà Marta , Torres Marta , Payrató Lluís
Published: August 2023

As in other languages, in the case of Catalan there has been a great deal of research interest during recent years in patterns of authentic spoken language, especially spontaneous and informal speech. This article introduces the Corpus Oral de Català Col·loquial (COC), a corpus of oral Catalan colloquial speech created with the aim of providing students with adequate material to study colloquial conversations in Catalan. This corpus is part of a more extensive project, namely the Corpus de Català Contemporani de la Universitat de Barcelona (CUB), a large corpus of contemporary Catalan developed at the University of Barcelona, ​which includes other sub-corpora that capture the geographical, social and functional variety of contemporary Catalan. The COC consists of 50 colloquial conversations (with four native speakers of Eastern Catalan, the majority of whom are from the urban region around Barcelona), which were recorded, transcribed and orthographically unified. Ten of these conversations, which form the so-called basic block, have already been corrected and revised. These can be made available to interested researchers.
La concepció de l'heroi al Curial e Güelfa
Authors: Sabaté Glòria
Published: August 2023

The special heroic conception of the late medieval Curial, which is examined here, results from the tension between the "perfect knight" Curial and his weaknesses, above all his indulgence towards the Cupiditas, which repeatedly throws him off course. It is shown here –among other things in comparison to Martorell's heroic conception in Tirant– how Curial's tension is represented narratively in that he appears in two opposing dimensions: a "public" dimension, which shows the courtier and good knight, and a "private" one, in which he exposes himself with his weaknesses and his ridiculousness; two dimensions that are constituted both by the direct description of facts and by the image of Curial in the utterances of the novel’s other characters.
Das altkatalanische gereimte Streitgespräch von Herrn Buc und seinem Pferd
Authors: Wittlin Curt
Published: August 2023

The anonymous medieval dialogue poem Disputa d'en Buc amb son cavall between Buc and his horse has survived in an otherwise mutilated manuscript in Carpentras (first edition 1877). After an introduction to the history of transmission, the text is translated here into German in a free version. The original Catalan text is included in the appendix.
Ethnizität und Kultur in multikulturellen Gesellschaften und im virtuellen Raum
Authors: Hornberg Sabine
Published: August 2023

One of the distinguishing features postulated for European states is the ethnic, cultural and linguistic homogeneity of their citizens. This homogeneity, for both affected societies and individuals, is increasingly manifested as dysfunctional due to increasing migratory movements within Europe, immigration from non-European countries, regional aspirations for autonomy and, finally, the integration of European states into the European Union.

Against this backdrop and in the midst of a rapidly advancing internationalization, made possible for example by the use of the internet etc., the question of the relationship between citizenship and ethnic and cultural identity in Europe is raised urgently and in a new light: Should European states or the European Union apply a concept of constitutional patriotism in the future or a conception of multicultural nationalities, as Canada, a traditionally host state for immigrants, did in 1971? To what extent do the media play a role? Can they contribute to the development of an understanding between states that responds to multiculturalism in Europe?
Autoria i complicitat en El gos tinent de J. M. Benet i Jornet
Authors: Quintana Trias Lluís
Published: August 2023

Theatre plays are particularly suited to the self-thematization of theatre; so are the works of J.M. Jornet i Benet such as El gos del tinent (1997). The setting, a brothel, and its actors areexamined in this article using Goffmann's analytical vocabulary in comparison to Jean Genet's Le balcon as the equivalent of theatre.
Notes per a un catàleg tipològic de les rondalles de l'Alacantí
Authors: Beltran Rafael
Published: August 2023

This article presents an inventory and typologically classifies 36 popular tales (rondalles) collected by Joaquim Gonzàlez i Caturla in the Alacant region, the Alacantí. This catalogue is supplemented by explanatory comments and references to similar stories, mainly of Catalan and Castilian origin. The classification is based on Antti Aarne and Stith Thompson's wellknown inventory of types of folk tales. This contribution is part of a project aimed at compiling nearly 300 versions of traditional sagas and tales of the Valencian comarques, which are already largely published.                                                                                                The contribution shows that the narratives of the Alacantí form a rich repertory that includes both miracle and fairy tale narratives (corresponding to the Aa-Th types 750A [The Peasant Woman is Changed into a Woodpecker], Aa-Th 480 [The Spinning-Women by the Spring. The Kind and the Unkind Girls] or Aa-Th 332 [Godfather Death]) as well as exempla and moralizing narratives (corresponding to Aa-Th 1370 [The Lazy Wife]) and numerous other motives.
Reflexions sobre el sufix -ada en català
Authors: Vañó-Cerdà Antonio
Published: August 2023

In the present contribution the various functions and meanings of the Catalan suffix -ada are examined, leading to results that are also relevant for other Romance languages that have got this suffix. This gives rise to the problem of the so-called ‘possible’ verbs like (*)gauchar, *forar, etc. They can be very important when explaining the semantic features of the suffix -ada. However, some linguists either dispute or simply negate their existence, only because they are not represented in any dictionary of the concerned language. In contrast to this opinion the present contribution supplies evidence, that makes the existence of these implicit verbs credible, even veracious.
Die Geschicke des Don Juan Tenorio in Barcelona: Skizze einer ignorierten Rezeption
Authors: Mattauch Hans
Published: August 2023

Against the common opinion that starting from Madrid (in 1844) José Zorilla’s Don Juan Tenorio began his triumph as an obligate and catharically cited play for All Soul’s Day soon after its premiere, its integration from 1847 onwards into the scenic ritual, that at that time had long since then been established in Barcelona, is documented here as well as its changeful development, that strongly differs from the development in Madrid, until it came to an end in 1974. This not only includes the many Spanish and especially Catalan theatre plays that derive from it and were represented alongside with it (variations, sequels, parodies, humoresques) but also its media utilisation for cinematographs, films and trivial reading (penny dreadful). The discussion accounts for cultural traditions, ideal positions and ethnopolitical and linguistic political attitudes as factors for the reception process.
Schelling i Maragall: vida a l'art i a la paraula
Authors: Bosch Magdalena
Published: August 2023

Eugeni Trias and Lluis Quintana have shown in their preliminary analysis, similarities between the thought of F. W. J. Schelling and J. Maragall. The aim of this paper is to present these in more detail. Parallelisms and coincidences are multiple and are repeated by many romantic and idealistic authors. Schelling and Maragall belong to this group; therefore, it does not seem necessary, nor interesting, to verify these direct influences between them. My aim is to show, in a common context, some particular analogies between a few texts by Schelling and Maragall: how art and words are born in the soul, how the work of art is alive, the relationship between life and the absolute one, the pace of life and so on. There are numerous fragments where we can find these topics with their entire significance, their depth and their beauty.

Keywords: Maragall, Schelling, Romanticism, art, aesthetics, beauty, soul, art alive.
Zur Frage der «Katalanität» literarischer Texte
Authors: Schöneberger Axel
Published: August 2023

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Joan Coromines, escriptor
Authors: Solà Joan
Published: August 2023

The critics have been unanimous in their opinion that, independently of his scientific value, Coromines has to be considered an excellent writer in Catalan, both in the way of developing his thinking and in his use of particular words, phrases and constructions. However, with a few exceptions, these opinions have never been founded on actual examples. The present paper gathers a few of these opinions and tries to provide specific evidence for them, derived from the two great dictionaries of the author.Keywords: Joan Coromines, writer, style, literary language.
Salvador Dalí – un fenómeno cultural y mediático
Authors: Maurer Queipo Isabel
Published: August 2023

Summary: Salvador Dalí is most famous as a painter. He is less known for his role as universal artist, for his illustrations, his screenplays, his sceneries, his works in the areas of fashion, design and advertising. Dalí was also an author who commented and analysed in his numerous texts his own artistic products like his paintings, his sculptures, his public entrances and productions. La metamorfósis de Narciso (1937) and the poem of the same title may function as paradigmatic examples in this respect. The texts are less considered and rest rather unknown for the common audience. As one of the most extroverted artists of the surrealist movement, with an extraordinary pleasure for artistic, cultural and commercial experiments, Dalí offers us with this combination of painting/text a kind of media-game. In this sense, the intertextual, intermedia and intercultural references play an important role. Based on this mediaensemble, Dalí created his famous so called ‘método paranoico-crítico’ which also inspired the French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan and offered an alternative to the passive automatisms of surrealism. This article intends to present the creative relations between this method and the paintings and texts of the Catalan artist as provocateur of dreams, nightmares, hallucinations and desires that each of us has. [Keywords: surrealism, media-games, artistic experiments, intertextuality, intermedia, interculturality, método paranoico-crítico, dreams, nightmares]
Die Rezeption Salvador Dalís in der amerikanischen Kultur der Nachkriegszeit
Authors: Morawietz Eva
Published: August 2023

Summary: In light of Salvador Dalí’s manifold activities during his sojourn in the United States, it seems surprising that so little scholarly attention has been devoted to the wide influence of Dalí’s oeuvre on the American culture of the post-war period. This essay ventures to investigate the stylistic and thematic impact of his imagery and his theoretical writings on the culture of Postmodernism, and more specifically, on postmodern American literature, exemplified in the works of Thomas Pynchon. After a brief overview of Dalí’s activities in the United States and of general common ground of his work with the culture and thought of Postmodernism, this article discusses his use of stylistic techniques, e.g. assemblage and eclecticism, as well as the assumed implications for Pynchon’s postmodern aesthetics. The main focus will then be put on a discussion of Dalí’s and Pynchon’s constructions of paranoia. [Keywords: Dalí, Pynchon, American Postmodernism, Surrealism, assemblage, eclecticism, intermediality, paranoia, paratext]
Das Sublime und das Aas: Salvador Dalís Entwürfe einer Geschichte (vom Tod) des Kinos
Authors: Stadelmaier Philipp
Published: August 2023

Summary: Salvador Dalí’s film treatments have never been realized as films. They are therefore not only speaking about failed films, but indeed about failure itself: the frustration of a certain regard that symbolizes more than a look on impossible desires of a physical encounter with the visual experience. Based on this idea, the image of cinema reveals at once a formal autonomy and a sublime character. Its oscillation between mortification and (re)animation of the desired body also enlightens the double-sensed essence of Dalí’s film projects: highly referential towards the history of cinema, they transform cinema into a non-cinematic museum, a text. Distant traces of the muse are, however, shining through, inspiring thus the resurrection of films that are at the same time already dead and not yet born. [Keywords: Dalí, surrealism, desire, sublime, cinema, paranoia, burlesque, Hollywood, Marx Brothers, necrophilia, Chien andalou]
Wie aus dem valencià eine eigene Sprache wurde. Kritische Analyse des Dictamen und des Nou Estatut
Authors: Doppelbauer Max
Published: August 2023

Summary: In this article I discuss whether at a legal level valencià is a variety of Catalan or an independent language. There has always existed more than one way to denominate the autochthonous language that was and is spoken in the Comunitat Valenciana, the most popular having been “català” and “valencià”, and the academic world has never doubted that these expressions are synonyms. In the 1970’s, however, after the death of Franco, right-wing political parties started a campaign of secession for the Comunitat Valenciana and tried to establish the independent language “valencià” at a legal level. In the Nou Estatut, valencià is now treated as an independent language. But in a dictamen the Language Academy of València admits that the Comunitat Valenciana shares a language with Catalonia. [Keywords: language conflict, language policy, Catalan varieties, Països Catalans, linguistic separatism, Catalan, Valencian Catalan]
Linguistic Consciousness among Adolescents in Catalonia: A Case Study from the Barcelona Urban Area in Longitudinal Perspective
Authors: Woolard Kathryn A.
Published: August 2023

Summary: This ethnographic case study from 2007 investigated linguistic consciousness in a public high school in the Barcelona urban area previously studied in 1987. Catalan was found to retain its high status and connote “elegance”, while Spanish is now characterized as a debased language by the majority of students in this case study from varying linguistic backgrounds. Students do not recognize register variation in Catalan. Ethnolinguistic boundaries have weakened considerably since 1987. Peers are no longer categorized on the basis of language background, but in voluntaristic and commodified stylistic terms. Bilingualism is the normal expectation, and while language choice has lost its solidarity value since 1987, functional Castilian monolingualism is a socially marked choice. [Keywords: language attitudes, language ideology, linguistic identity, national identity, youth language].
Actituds dels docents davant les noves situacions escolars multiculturals i multilingües: qüestions recurrents
Authors: Palou Juli , Fons Montserrat
Published: August 2023

Summary: Multiculturalism and multilingualism change the characteristics of linguistic exchanges among youngsters, and also between them and their teachers, in many of the classrooms of the Catalan education system. In this article, based on the analysis of data collected via ethnographic research methods (interviews and group debates, in which teachers express and compare their beliefs, attitudes and knowledge), we show three relevant and recurrent issues: the way of perceiving linguistic and cultural differences (which is regarded as a richness, but at the same time is conceives as a problem); the dilemma of integrating newcomers directly into the classroom or introducing them in specific phases; and the concern as regards, how one reaches a point where these students use Catalan as their habitual language in interactions beyond the classroom. [Keywords: Catalan language, multiculturalism, multilingualism, classroom interactions, students’ attitudes, teachers’ beliefs, ethnographic method].
Bibliografia seleccionada i comentada sobre llengua i joventut
Authors: Heidepriem Elena
Published: August 2023

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La producció discursiva de Martí Domínguez i Barberà (1908-1984) i els seus registres expressius
Authors: Pellisser i Rossell Nel·lo
Published: August 2023

Summary: Martí Domínguez i Barberà (Algemesí, 1908 – València, 1984) is one of the most outstanding figures of 20th century Valencian journalism. Though he is mainly known for his journalistic work, his discursive production also comprises other, more literary genres: poetry, narrative, theatre and essay writing. Journalism turned out to be an extraordinary training and promotional springboard for him, as it was where he found the stage from which he was able to fulfil his vocation for literature and the arts. One can detect his work from his diversity of expression, which webs a unique thread across various registers. [Keywords: Discourse production, expressive features, journalistic discourse, Valencian journalistic history, literary genre, discourse analysis].
Il Codice Aragonese (1458-1460): la distribuzione delle tre lingue napoletana, catalana e latina
Authors: Venetz Gabriela H.
Published: August 2023

Summary: This article is devoted to a 15th century’s codex from Naples under the Catalan-Aragonese Crown of King Ferran. To a sociocultural background I investigate the function of the three varieties involved (Catalan, Neapolitan and Latin) in general and as preferred correspondence languages. Furthermore, and in comparison to a hypothesis by the editor Armand-Adolphe Messer, I show that the use of Catalan and Neapolitan depends on the linguistic knowledge of the receiver and, in the case of bilingual receivers, on the author’s intention. By comparing the two varieties we observe a certain tendency to apply the Neapolitan language to objective messages while Catalan tends to be used for more personal or ‘urgent’ communications [Keywords: Catalan, Neapolitan, Naples, Catalan-Aragonese Crown, chancellery, sociolinguistics, trilingualism].
Salvador Espriu: una proposta entre el racionalisme cartesià, la moral pràctica de Sèneca i la mística jueva
Authors: Delor i Muns Rosa M.
Published: August 2023

Summary: On the basis of a canon of readings recommended by Salvador Espriu himself, the 21st century reader is invited to participate in the poet’s creative process, which suggests an ethical line of social engagement that is mundane, rational and active and that is based on the conquest of the subject’s freedom. [Keywords: Subject, poetry, truth, dialectic, reason, self-analysis, organic-work, kabbala]
Wer war Joan Sales? Hinweis auf einen Autor
Authors: Geisler Eberhard
Published: August 2023

Summary: The major work of Joan Sales (1912-1983), the novel Incerta glòria, has suffered a peculiar fate. In spite of the high praise expressed by Mercè Rodoreda in a letter to the author, the work was little acknowledged in Spain (the French translation, on the other hand, was more successful and was compared with the best novels by Bernanos). Only in recent years have critics increasingly surfaced, paying a befitting tribute to the book as a masterpiece and as a unique panorama of the Spanish Civil War and – along with the sequel El vent de la nit – the years of Francoism. The novel is clearly written from the view of the vanquished. This article outlines the life of Sales and demonstrates his approach of a critical, liberal and Catalan intellectual. As will be shown, the chief aim of the author is to experience and to seek the abundance of an intensive life, to create an intensity which is expressed in his literary style that is full of metaphors and, particularly, contrasts. A longer section of the article is dedicated to the vestiges of Kierkegaard in the novel. Within this it is above all the figure of the intellectual Soleràs who seems influenced by the Danish philosopher and progenitor of existentialism. The religious aspect is treated by Sales with particular tolerance. He rejects any form of power and hierarchy within religion and represents the theology of the cross, by attributing Christ as the God of the conquered. He defends a version of Catholicism which displays ecumenical traits. Of course, the classical criticism of religion (which viewed the childhood soul of the believer as a scandal) can be applied to the author, but he remains true to the spirit of the Gospel. At the end of the essay an eye is cast over poetry written by the author, in addition to his novel., and the implied attitude towards surrealism is investigated. From this a certain break with the surreal and the conception of the unconscious becomes evident. Incerta glòria is, by contrast, is monolithic and wholeheartedly successful. The novel encompasses the totality of the human, and preaches a spirit for which any policies of exclusion are foreign. [Keywords: reception, biography, politics, existentialism, intensity, style, religion, poetry, surrealism]
Estudi empíric sobre la semàntica verbal del català: el cas de la modalitat de l'acció
Authors: Coll-Florit Marta
Published: August 2023

Summary: This paper presents an empirical study on Catalan verbal semantics, more specifically on Aktionsart categories, based on real linguistic data from the Corpus Textual Informatitzat de la Llengua Catalana (CTILC, Catalan Computerized Textual Corpus). This work includes a large and varied set of verbal predicates, as well as grammatical constructions, with the primary purpose of providing empirical evidence that sheds light on one of the most prolific discussions in the literature on aspect: how and to what extent lexical semantics and syntax interact in the linguistic encoding of aspectual information. The data show that, although Aktionsart categories, when compared to each other, display different morphosyntactic usage patterns, the internal structuring of each category is not homogeneous; on the contrary, they present a gradient structuring, with prototypical members which do not accept aspectual shifting, and more flexible ones which may move towards other aspectual categories. [Keywords: Verbal semantics; Aktionsart; aspect; corpus linguistics; prototypes]
Present and historical perspectives on the Catalan go-past
Authors: Jacobs Bart
Published: August 2023

Summary: This paper provides a range of both synchronic and diachronic perspectives on the Catalan go-past, known in the literature as the perfet perifràstic. The first chapter presents an overview of the use and distribution of the feature in contemporary Catalan; the second chapter discusses the diachronic and synchronic attestation of the feature in other Romance languages, Occitan in particular. In chapter 3, the paper summarizes the state of the research on the grammaticalization process that underlies the go-past. In chapter 4, finally, the hypothesis that the feature diffused from (Old) Occitan into (Old) Catalan is postulated and underpinned with both historical and linguistic data. [Keywords: (Old) Catalan; perfet perifràstic / go-past; (Old) Occitan; grammaticalization; diffusion]
El vocabulari català-alemany de 1502: Vocabolari molt profitos per apendre Lo Catalan Alamany y Lo Alamany Catalan
Authors: Colón Germà
Published: August 2023

Summary: Johan Rosenbachs Vocabulari is the first lexical index of Catalan and German, but it is not a completely original work. The aim of this paper is to produce evidence that shows its reliance on the early Italian dictionaries of his time, and especially on Introito e Porta (1477) from which the printer from Heidelberg took full paragraphs. [Keywords: Catalan-German dictionaries; Italian lexicography; history of printing]
Katalanischer Comic und movida barcelonesa: La noche de siempre von Montesol und Ramón de España
Authors: Hertrampf Marina Ortrud M.
Published: August 2023

Summary: The essay presents the particular importance of Catalonia for the Spanish comic scene. Special attention is paid to the Catalan comic of the 1980s. Since the beginnings of the Ninth Art in Spain, Catalonia has been the editorial and artistic center for comics. During the years between the transition and democracy, the comic became a central means of expression of the movida movement in Catalonia. Barcelona became the creative center of Catalan comic production. A prominent representative of the movida barcelonesa comic is the artist Montesol. Based on the analysis of the album La noche de siempre (1981), the contribution shows the specific features of Catalan comics of the transición and illustrates how Montesol and Ramón de España create an almost documentary and at the same time self-ironic and satirical chronicle of the social and artistic practices of the movida in Barcelona. [Keywords: Adult comic; Catalonia; counterculture / subculture; Spanish transition to democracy; Movida (barcelonesa); underground comix; ligne claire; línia xunga / línea chunga]
Sobre l'Spill de la vida religiosa i la impremta
Authors: Martos Josep Lluís
Published: August 2023

Summary: The Spill de la vida religiosa is an anonymous spiritual treatise written at the beginning of the 16th century. Its transmission has been mainly linked to the printing press. In the critical debate concerning the authorship of the work, and particularly concerning the shortened version that was published, several arguments have been put forward which fail to fully acknowledge the common procedures of the editorial processes during the 16th century. This article reviews the relationship between this text and the printing press and documents the traditions in the transmission of other works during the same period by analyzing the Catalan and earlier European editions (in this case, the Italian ones). This analysis excludes the possibility that the editio princeps of the Spill was not a Franciscan editorial project; it also sheds light on the spiritual contexts that allowed a wirde distribution in Italy and shows that these contexts are linked to the company of the Love of God and the Theatine order. [Keywords: Printing press; transmission; spirituality; franciscanism; regular clergy
Fonaments catalans en la construcció de la historieta clàssica a l'Estat espanyol
Authors: Baile López Eduard
Published: August 2023

Summary: From a historical point of view, Barcelona has been the center of the self-authored publishing market which constituted the main basis of what is known as the classic Spanish cartoon, thanks to, for instance, the significance of imprints such as Bruguera, which used to publish extremely popular characters such as Mortadelo y Filemón or El Capitán Trueno, and Ediciones TBO. Our principal aim is to analyze how imprints based in Barcelona were a crucial factor for the creation of a genuine publishing market which had an enormous impact across the Spanish state; in doing so, we will also further explain the active presence of imprints in other places, with a special focus on the ones situated in Valencia. [Keywords: Barcelona; València; comic; cartoon; historieta; Catalan]
Sobre catalanismes al turc baixmedieval
Authors: Redondo Jordi
Published: August 2023

Summary: The social and cultural frame which enabled the Catalan language to play a central role in the Mediterranean area between the 13th and the 15th century can also explain several problematic aspects related to the history of its different languages – of course not only of the Romance languages. This paper must be seen in the context of our research in the literary Catalan culture towards the Low Medieval Age, and presents a revisited view on the Roman loanwords in Turkish and on the linguistic contact between both languages. Several terms in particular must be classified as direct borrowings from Catalan. Methodologically, attention will be paid first of all to the phonomorphological analysis of the variants attested in the different Romance languages, in order to establish the origin of the corresponding terms in Turkish. Turkish loanwords attested in Catalan and Spanish contemporary texts will also be examined in order to verify our theory. [Keywords: Catalan-German dictionaries; Italian lexicography; history of printing].
Mit Tintín auf Schatzsuche: Anmerkungen zu den katalanischen Versionen von Le trésor de Rackham le Rouge
Authors: Pusch Claus D.
Published: August 2023

Summary: This paper is devoted to the inter- and intra-linguistic comparison of comics on the basis of the volume Le trésor de Rackham le Rouge (engl. Red Rackham’s Treasure) of the Franco-Belgian Tintin series and its two Catalan versions published in 1964 and 2002, respectively. These versions are analyzed with respect to morpho-syntactic (forms of address, clitic pronoun combinations, clause-initial que and future-oriented temporal adverbial clauses introduced by quan) and lexical criteria (technical vocabulary). The study reveals that the models for the reference variety applied by the translators diverge and that the translations reflect, to a certain extent, the sociolinguistic situation of Catalan at the moment of their creation. [Keywords: Tintin; inter- and intra-linguistic translation; linguistic norm; sociolinguistics of normativization; Joaquim Ventalló]
Estudi de Memòria personal d'Antoni Tàpies des de la perspectiva de l'assaig literari
Authors: López-Pampló Gonçal
Published: August 2023

Summary: The painter Antoni Tàpies wrote his autobiography Memòria personal when he reached middle age. But beneath the narrative structure typical of this genre, Memòria personal presents a number of features that allow us to label the book an essay. The most important feature is the use of argumentative strategies designed to explain the author’s ideological and personal evolution, with the ultimate aim of examining his conception of art and, in particular, the role of the artist in society. [Keywords: Essay; autobiography; literary theory; Antoni Tàpies]
Els directors d'escena valencians en temps de democràcia
Authors: Rosselló Ramon X.
Published: August 2023

Summary: This article focuses on the figure of the theatre director in València from the beginning of the democratic era up to the first years of the twenty-first century. This is an aspect of theatre which has so far been little studied. To begin with, we give an overview of this figure, taking into account on the one hand the type of theatrical institution involved (public or private), and on the other, the type of theatre (text-based, indoor...) in which directors have usually worked. We then offer a more detailed picture of the most outstanding director of this period in València, Carles Alfaro (born in València in 1960), who did important work at the head of the Moma Teatre company (1982–2004). [Keywords: Valencian theatre; theatre director; theatre production; theatre companies; Carles Alfaro]
Antoni Tàpies i Joan Fuster: pintura i escriptura recíproques
Authors: Carbó Ferran
Published: August 2023

Summary: This work reconstructs and analyses the personal and artistic relationship between Antoni Tàpies and Joan Fuster from documents, paintings and texts of both of them. In fact, the three paintings that Tàpies dedicated – and gave – to Joan Fuster as a present are commented and explained (paintings which can be found in the artistic deposit of the Documentary Fund Joan Fuster in Sueca). Moreover, we will review the different texts that Fuster wrote about Antoni Tàpies or his paintings, and even the presentations and reviews that he did for the Tàpies exhibition in Valencia in 1979. The work also establishes Tapies’ connection with the Valencian Country, expressed by, for example, his participation in the magazine L’Espill, directed by Fuster, in the form of illustrations, or the relationship with the poet Vicent Andrés Estellés, who devoted an ode to the artist, who, in turn, devoted a painting to him. [Keywords: Tàpies and Fuster; relationship; painting and text]
La projecció de la ciutat al cinema de Ventura Pons
Authors: Rams Maribel
Published: August 2023

Summary: In his extensive filmography, Ventura Pons explores and redefines the national and cultural Catalan identity, from the Transition to the present day, through the representation of the cityscape of Barcelona. In this article, we analyze the visual images and the allusions to the cityscapes in some of the Catalan filmmaker’s movies that reach from the configuration of Barcelona as a symbol of the anti-Francoist resistance and the defense of the democratic liberties to the examination of the effects that the current capitalist modernization has had. [Keywords: Ventura Pons; Barcelona; Transition; Olympic Games; Catalan Comedy; Globalization; spaces of flows; spaces of places]
Hero, Martyr, or Saint? Rewriting Anti-Franco Resistance in Manuel Huerga's Salvador
Authors: Fernàndez Josep-Anton
Published: August 2023

Summary: The execution of anarchist militant Salvador Puig Antich in 1974 was one of the most important events in the final years of Franco’s dictatorship. It gave rise to an enormous political mobilisation in Catalonia, and acquired a crucial symbolic status in Catalan democratic culture, with Puig Antich as a myth of anti-Franco resistance. Manuel Huerga’s biopic Salvador (2006) presents a deeply engaging narrative of these events. The film, a manifestation of the drive towards so-called “recuperació de la memòria històrica” in the last two decades, has been widely acclaimed by the critics but also attacked for its sentimental, depoliticised presentation of the figure of the anarchist militant. What is at stake in the fictional revision of Puig Antich? This article analyses the uses of the past in Huerga’s Salvador by examining the social antagonisms this film might be addressing and the kinds of consensus it tries to build. [Keywords: Historical memory; uses of the past; Catalan cinema; Huerga, Manuel; Puig Antich, Salvador; Salvador; Catalan culture; anti-Franco resistance]
Manuals i ensenyament del català: algunes reflexions
Authors: Bastons Vilallonga Núria
Published: August 2023

Summary: In this article, we offer a brief review of the most important changes in the field of education/learning conditioned by different methods and approaches, and how these changes have been reflected in the text books for Catalan as a foreign language or second language (L2). In the first part, we focus on how these texts have been employed according to the definition and the functions outlined by the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR). In the second part, a reflection is made about the treatment of grammar in students’ books as far as explanations and exercises are concerned. Finally, we discuss some reflections and proposals concerning the above-mentioned subjects. [Keywords: methods and approaches; text; grammar; activities; text book]
Comunitat lingüística i conflicte lingüístic: revisió d'uns termes sociolingüístics respecte al discurs valencià
Authors: Budig Hanna
Published: August 2023

Summary: The present contribution deals with the phenomenon of linguistic secessionism in the Comunitat Valenciana and therefore with intra-communal conflicts over language and identity. In view of the fact that competition among views on historical, cultural and linguistic Catalan identity is still fierce, the sociolinguistic concepts of linguistic community and linguistic conflict will be reviewed critically and confronted from the perspective of discourse theory. The terms won from this perspective – discourse community and identity discourse – suggest an approach which takes account of the social, cognitive and linguistic aspects of the conflict. [Keywords: València; linguistic community; linguistic conflict; discourse community; identity discourse]
El caminant i el paisatge. La construcció de les seqüències paisatgístiques en El quadern gris de Josep Pla
Authors: Comelles Salvador
Published: August 2023

Summary: Through a combination of pieces of El quadern gris which are the account of a route on foot, this article focuses its study on the thematic and structural elements conferring unity to these sequences. Furthermore, from the comparison of Josep Pla’s handwritten version with the 1966 Complete Works edition, the article points out the composition and language strategies applied by Pla when giving definitive form to the original texts. Finally, the paper explores the continuity of this pattern – or the lack of it – within the author’s entire work. [Keywords: Josep Pla, El quadern gris, landscape, wandering, description, style, language, textual sequences, textual variants]
Els marcadors discursius sobre l'arrel fi. Anàlisi contrastiva català-castellà
Authors: Bach Carme
Published: August 2023

Summary: This study presents a contrastive analysis of three pairs of Catalan and Spanish reformulative discourse markers that contain the word fi: en fi / en fin, al cap i a la fi / al fin y al cabo and en definitiva / en definitiva. The specific goals of the paper are: (a) to discern the similarities and differences between the instructions they establish; (b) to study their position in the utterance (initial, medial, final) and their co-occurrence with other conjunctions and (c) to discuss whether their pragmatic functions can be attributed to their morphological patterns and to their degree of grammaticization. Findings suggest that, even though there aren’t differences between the two languages analyzed, there are important differences between the three pairs of markers analyzed: in the instructions that each of them carries out and in their utterance position, and in their co-occurrence with other conjunctions. This study proves that, in practice, the three pairs of reformulative markers are not exchangeable in all discourse contexts, and they cannot be considered synonymous. Finally, despite their degree of grammaticization, their pragmatics functions can be attributed to the value of the word fi. Keywords: Discourse markers, reformulation, contrastive analysis, recapitulation, conclusion
Information structure and grammaticalization. Discourse markers and utterance position in Catalan and German
Authors: Robles i Sabater Ferran
Published: August 2023

Summary: This paper explores the relation between the position of discourse markers and the instructions they provide on the information structure of utterances. We assume that, next to other types of indications, discourse markers encode during their grammaticalization process instructions about the informative status of the discourse constituents on which they operate and about their relevance for text progression. Our aim is to account for these indications and show the benefits of using a model of discourse units for the description of markers. For this purpose, we will adopt the Basel model for discourse segmentation, which regards text as a pragmatic unit consisting of hierarchically organized information units. The study concludes that metalinguistic operations such as reformulation in written language can be better explained on the grounds of the dynamics governing text construction and organization. Keywords: Discourse markers, grammaticalization, information structure, reformulation, argumentation, relevance
El condicional com a marcador epistèmic i evidencial en català antic: el condicional evidencial reportatiu amb verbs de dicció
Authors: Martines Josep
Published: August 2023

Summary: This article is centred around the rise of the conditional as an epistemic and evidential marker in reporting contexts in Old Catalan. The process studied begins with a situation in which the conditional 1.) marks the epistemic position of the source with regard to a given state of affairs; it then moves toward 2.) marking the epistemic position of the speaker with regard to the propositional content expressed in the source and, particularly, his non-commitment to this content. Subjectivisation and intersubjectivisation are identified as decisive factors for an understanding of the various semantic and pragmatic facets that reprise evidential conditionals may exhibit. The ongoing grammaticalisation process allowed conditionals from the 15th century onward to function without any further lexical or discursive devices as an epistemic and evidential marker in and of itself. Keywords: Epistemic reprise, evidential conditionals, subjectivisation, intersubjectivisation, modalisation
Die Grammatikalisierung von lat. HOMO im Katalanischen, Spanischen und Französischen
Authors: Feryal Gemicioglu Sarah
Published: August 2023

Summary: Grammaticalization of indefinite pronouns through human nouns (e.g. HOMO, PERSONA) is a very common path within the Romance languages. Catalan also knows the grammaticalization of HOMO to an indefinite pronoun (although it is used more often in rather formal texts and depicts a marked use in other texts), while today’s Catalan uses other strategies such as the passiva reflexa and third person plural. Well then, what have been the individual stages in the different languages? Why did Spanish start to use other strategies although the first steps of the HOMO-grammaticalization can be proved in medieval Spanish? This article is the product of a comparative corpus study. The period that has been studied is the 13th century. We want to show the state of the grammaticalization in Catalan, Spanish and French within that very period, demonstrate differences regarding the context (assertive vs. non-assertive), the syntactic position and modifications, and give a possible explication for the stopped HOMO-grammaticalization in Spanish. Keywords: Human impersonal pronouns, grammaticalization, Spanish, French, Catalan, 13th century, HOMO
Llull's A Contemporary Life: Narratio vera or Auto-hagiographic Account?
Authors: Cortijo Ocaña Antonio
Published: August 2023

Summary: The Vita coaetanea is a mesmerizing autobiographical account of Ramon Llull’s life dictated by himself to a monk at the monastery of Vauvert in Paris in 1311. The philosopher was then 79 years old and was making preparations to attend the Council of Vienne that same year. Throughout the Vita Llull imagines himself as a combination of sinner, pilgrim, hermit, teacher, preacher and spiritual knight (miles Christi). The Vita closely follows the model of hagiographic accounts and has as its point of departure Llull’s so-called conversion to penitence. Llull’s ulterior life is understood by him as an act of self-effacement and love for Christ and his neighbor. In a previous book, the Book of the Order of Chivalry, written decades before, Llull had defended a new moral definition of knights as embodiments of man’s effort in his attempt to achieve everlasting rest with his Creator, a mission that has spiritual as well as temporal connotations. The two works, separated by some thirty-five years, insist on the need to reach the Muslim population through a crusading effort which is both military and spiritual. The The Book of the Order of Chivalry gives way in the Vita to an autobiography conceived of as an exemplum of the chivalric endeavors which the first book extolls and calls for. Keywords: Ramon Llull, Vita coaetanea, autobiography, Miles Christi, The Book of the Order of Chivalry
La represa de l'ensenyament del català durant el tardo-franquisme: els cursos i els exàmens de la Diputació de Barcelona (1967-75)
Authors: Casals i Martorell Daniel
Published: August 2023

Summary: This article intends to reconstruct and analyse the initiative undertaken by the Barcelona Provincial Council in the final years of the Franco dictatorship to reintroduce the teaching of Catalan language at the educational centres associated with it and at the public library network. Covering the period from the inception of this initiative in 1967 to the beginning of the transition to democratic government in Spain in 1975, this study examines the structure and content of these language course, their bibliographic sources, the testing and teaching methodologies applied and the teaching staff employed, as well as the public response to the initiative, the evolution of enrolment and the implementation of the program throughout the province. The results of this research show that, despite the persistence of a political regime that had stripped Catalan of its official status and banned its use, public institutions within Catalonia were in fact able to resume the teaching and testing of Catalan, albeit outside the official curricula. Indeed, the initiative was warmly welcomed, and its progressive implementation across the territory led to the creation of a body of skilled teachers of Catalan, a language that the population had not been able to learn at school since 1939. Keywords: Catalan, language teaching, Barcelona Provincial Council, Francoism, social spread, standardisation
Die Konstruktion katalanischer Identität in der Literatur zur Guerra d’Àfrica (1859–1860) und die Wahrnehmung der Katalanen durch deutsche Kriegsberichterstatter
Authors: Kühne Ina
Published: August 2023

Summary: The Spanish-Moroccan War of 1859/60 is of great importance for the development of Catalan identity. During the war an immense amount of patriotic literature in Catalan language was published in Catalonia, in which the authors glorified the deeds of the Catalan general Joan Prim i Prats and the Catalan volunteers who fought in this war. The present article intents to illustrate on the basis of the analysis of poems, theatre plays, a patriotic song and a report written by Catalan authors the importance of the First Spanish-Moroccan War for the development of Catalan identity and to demonstrate that the authors used the literature about the war to diffuse Catalan national myths and symbols and to construct a Catalan national identity. Based on chronicles of German war correspondents the article points out that the military deeds of general Prim and the Catalan volunteers were admired not only in Catalonia and Spain but also in Germany and that the Catalan soldiers achieved to cause Catalan language and culture to become known even in foreign countries. Keywords: Spanish-Moroccan War of 1859/60, construction of Catalan identity, General Prim, battalion of Catalan volunteers, chronicles of German war correspondents
Espais i identitat dels malalts en els casos clínics en català
Authors: Kot'átková Adéla
Published: August 2023

Summary: The Clinical Case Report (CCR) is a specialized genre for teaching and research purposes, in which health professionals report the clinical experiences of one or more patients. It is, then, a type of story that contributes to the construction of the identities of healthcare professionals, especially within their professional communities. But these stories also construct an identity of the patients. As in every narrative, in the CCR we find characters, events which they are protagonists of and that affect them, and spaces where they develop. However, unlike any literary text, the CCR is presented as a scientific instrument and, in this sense, it tends to adopt a technical style and, therefore, to limit the identity and spatial details to the minimum necessary to understand the illness and applied therapies. In Catalan, we find good examples of CCR in sectors as diverse as neurology or care for patients with Down syndrome. We will see the treatment of space and how it relates to the patient’s identity. Keywords: clinical case report, healthcare settings, mental health, storytelling, Catalan, spaces, identities, healthcare professionals, patients