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La presencia de la voz. Percepciones y lenguaje poético en Germán Carrasco y Erri De Luca
Authors: Bortignon Martina 
Published: November 2022

This article studies the representation of a multi-sensory voice in some works by two contemporary authors –Germán Carrasco (Chile) and Erri De Luca (Italy)– and the way it questions the relation between the poetic word and its referent. Particularly, the interplay between voice and image is investigated: on one hand, voice and image merge together, generating a synesthetic continuum that emphasizes the materiality of representation; on the other hand, they eclipse each other, so that the frustrated access to the referent through a specific sensory channel make it paradoxically more present. With the support of Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s corporeal phenomenology, it will be possible to show that the signification process in poetry and in poetic prose is deep-rooted in the perceptive dimension of the referent, as well as in the materiality of language. The analysis of the corporeal and multisensory voice in both authors will finally result in a sketch of their poetics: Carrasco creates a spacing or inter-body between words in order to expand the perception to what is invisible, while De Luca tends to endow the word with all the intensity of the material referent.
Small Actors, Important Task: Independent Publishers and their Importance for the Transmission of French and Romance Language Fiction to Sweden Since the Turn of the Millennium
Authors: Hedberg Andreas 
Published: November 2022

Starting from a description of today’s Swedish book market, which has seen a steady decline of French and other Romance languages as source languages for translated literature, this article investigates the importance of independent publishers for the transmission of non-anglophone fiction. In qualitative interviews, representatives of independent presses were asked to describe their business models and their relationships with big publishing houses. They were also asked to elaborate on the role of French and other Romance language fiction in Sweden today. The article’s understanding of the book market is very much based on work done by literary sociologists, such as Pascale Casanova, Hans Hertel and Johan Svedjedal.
The results indicate that independent presses stepped in during the late 1990s, when the big publishing houses showed less and less interest in French and Romance language literature in translation. These independent publishers, with the help of clear niches, expert skills and perseverance, and in cooperation with media, showed that it was still possible to yield a profit publishing these kinds of translations. As a result, the major publishing houses once again took notice of French and other Romance language literature, engaging in competition with the smaller actors whose creation they had once brought about.
Mazo (de) y otros recursos de intensificación en el lenguaje juvenil madrileño: factores lingüísticos y sociales
Authors: Enghels Renata , Roels Linde 
Published: November 2022

This paper investigates three main strategies used by Spanish teenagers to intensify their language, namely by suffixation and affixation of the base, and by recurring to the lexical intensifier mazo. For this purpose, all occurrences of these intensifiers in the Corpus Oral de Lenguaje Adolescente de Madrid (COLAm) are analyzed. Rather than describing the behavior of each individual category, this article aims at providing a better understanding of both the internal (morphosyntactic and semantic-pragmatic) and external (sociolinguistic) factors that determine the alternating use of the three strategies within the paradigm of intensifiers. The analysis also looks into the grammaticalization process that has given rise to the use of mazo as a highly frequent and versatile intensifier in teenage talk.
Comparison of the impacts of different multimodalities on incidental l2 vocabulary learning
Authors: Çekiç Ahmet , Demirezen Mehmet 
Published: November 2022

Multimodality of input in incidental L2 vocabulary learning has recently been a topic of interest among language acquisition researchers, yet the results have been somewhat contradictory. This study seeks to compare the impacts of two different multimodalities on incidental L2 vocabulary learning, namely, reading-plus-watching (experimental group I) vs. reading-plus-listening (experimental group II), as compared to the reading only condition, which is included as a control measure. Experimental group I watched and read the transcriptions of four news texts with electronic glosses for the target words, while experimental group II read and listened to the same news texts again with electronic glosses for the same 20 target words. Next, the two experimental groups swapped roles with a new set of four news texts glossed for another group of 20 target words. The control group only read the same eight news texts without glosses. The results suggest that reading-plus-listening can be a more conducive multimodal presentation for incidental vocabulary learning as compared to reading-plus-watching. The results also challenge the validity of some principles of the Cognitive Theory of Multimedia Learning in incidental L2 vocabulary learning, while providing supporting evidence for some other principles.
Posesivos pleonásticos, redundancia y énfasis: de nuevo sobre la construcción una mi amiga en las variedades mexicano-centroamericanas
Authors: Pato Enrique 
Published: November 2022

En este trabajo se lleva a cabo una revisión y actualización en la descripción de la construcción posesiva enfática con artículo indefinido + posesivo + nombre (del tipo una mi amiga), un rasgo sintáctico documentado en las variedades del español de Centroamérica (Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica y Panamá) y del sur de México (Yucatán y Chiapas). El estudio responde a una serie objetivos concretos: (1) establecer con precisión, y por primera vez, la distribución geográfica del fenómeno en español actual, así como su frecuencia de uso; (2) describir este rasgo (persona, género y número del posesivo, tipos de nombres poseídos y otros rasgos caracterizadores) haciendo uso de uno de los corpus más amplios recopilados hasta la fecha (916 casos en total); y (3) comparar los resultados obtenidos con los datos de los trabajos previos. Asimismo, se considera el fenómeno como un ejemplo más dentro de lo que se ha denominado ‘redundancia’ (Bosque 2004) en la lengua española, en este caso concreto dentro de la serie de los posesivos pleonásticos.
Possessives in indefinite nominal phrases: A comparison between Italo-Romance and Daco-Romance
Authors: Silvestri Giuseppina 
Published: November 2022

Southern Italian dialects exhibit a peculiar morphosyntactic device in licensing possessives in non‑definite noun phrases, i.e. the insertion of the functional element de followed by the definite article. This strategy shows striking similarities with the functional element A(-) employed in Romanian to introduce a possessive or a noun phrase marked as a genitive when it is not linearly preceded by a noun phrase marked as definite. This paper proves that an identical syntactic structure is detectable in both groups of varieties which stems from the definiteness requirements of the genitive.
El posesivo en construcciones de valor locativo de la lengua gallega: innovación lingüística e interferencia a partir del análisis de corpus contemporáneos
Authors: Silva-Domínguez Carme 
Published: November 2022

El presente artículo ofrece una aproximación a la alternancia, en la lengua gallega, entre estructuras con valor locativo en las que el elemento modificativo es de (excepcionalmente a) + pronombre personal (construcción tradicional) y aquella otra, innovadora, en la que aparece el posesivo en femenino. Partiendo de que la expansión del posesivo a este tipo de unidades tiene un fundamento analógico, se estudia el proceso de avance de la innovación a través de ejemplos procedentes de dos corpus fundamentales: el Tesouro Informatizado da Lingua Galega y el Corpus de Referencia do Galego Actual. Las conclusiones se contrastan con otras dos compilaciones de materiales textuales: el Corpus Oral do Instituto da Lingua Galega y el Corpus ESLORA de español oral, este último pertinente dada la situación de contacto de lenguas existente en Galicia. El punto de partida del análisis es una visión más preocupada por la explicación del proceso de cambio que por la determinación del origen endógeno o exógeno de este, aunque esta cuestión también es abordada. El Atlas Lingüístico Galego, cuya información sobre el fenómeno se analiza, permite testimoniar que la innovación estaba ya presente en hablas populares gallegas de los años 70 del siglo XX. Del análisis de los corpus se concluye que un determinado tipo de estructuras, aquellas nucleadas por los adverbios diante, detrás / atrás y por la preposición tras, presentan la innovación de manera más precoz (en el primer tercio del siglo XX) y pueden haber servido de vía de entrada para el posesivo, por la diversidad de construcciones que admiten tradicionalmente. El avance porcentual de la construcción innovadora y su diversificación a la práctica totalidad de estructuras locativas se produce en el último tercio del siglo XX. El español de Galicia presenta las mismas tendencias constructivas que caracterizan a la lengua gallega.
Introduction Culture on the move: Towards a minorization of cultural difference
Authors: Filipovic Zlatan 
Published: November 2022

This Special Issue would not have been possible without the enduring effort of the contributors whose patience has been paramount to what, at times, must have seemed as an endless unfolding of revisions before we could find the right pitch and I’m indebted to all of you for your commitment and support. Special thanks also is due to the Institute for American Universities and Professor Maria Van Liew whose initiative for a conference on the topic in Barcelona 2018 provided a much appreciated catalyst for the volume. School of Education and Communication at Jönköping University and its research focus in Communication, Culture and Diversity with Professor Ylva Lindberg at the helm have also been instrumental in providing continuous suport for the project as well as my own Department of Languages and Literatures at the University of Gothenburg with its established research field in Transcultural Studies. I also owe a debt of gratitude to the editorial team at Moderna Språk and our brilliant Anna Gudmundson, above all, whose attentive eye, appreciation and tireless enthusiasm have made this volume finally see the light of day.
Most of all, however, I want to thank my awesome wife Maria and my son and daughter, Mies and Dalia Belle, whose love and joy are the foundational pillars of all my endeavours. Zlatan Filipovic, July 2020.
River writing and “the tyranny of beginnings:” Autobiographies along rivers
Authors: Karlsson Hammarfelt Linda 
Published: November 2022

Many contemporary autobiographical texts that depict a transcultural self prominently feature waterscapes in the foreground. The present study focuses on how rivers are functionalized in two autobiographical accounts: the essayistic Flodernas bok (The book of rivers, 2012) by the Swedish poet and essayist Nina Burton, and the autofictional novel Am Fluß (2014) by Esther Kinsky. Both combine the literary representation of travels along rivers with an exploration of European cultural history, but also the history of the self.Using Schmitz-Emans’s (2008) concept of ‘water writing’ for studying ‘riverlike’ writing modes and discussing the findings against the backdrop of research on the cultural significance of water, this article demonstrates how both texts challenge the presumed linearity of rivers by focusing on how they are embedded in a global circuit of waters. It shows that a river’s ability to transgress national borders makes ‘river writing’ attractive for autobiographical enterprises. Finally, both texts emphasize the relationship between man and water as well as that between man and the environment through water. This relatedness of humans and landscape through the fluid element indicates that the self is not sovereign, stable and hovering above its environment, but rather an embedded entity, interwoven in complex fluid networks of interaction.
The uncapturable contours of an author: Ambiguous postures in French media of transnational Francophone writers Fatou Diome and Alain Mabanckou
Authors: Lindberg Ylva 
Published: November 2022

The Francophone authors Fatou Diome (Senegalese origins) and Alain Mabanckou (Congolese origins) are at the centre of this study on author postures in audio-visual media. The purpose of the study is to determine how transnational authors position themselves inside a central dominating culture and language, in this case France and French. Eight media samples for each author have been collected on Internet. The selection of the material was based on the most recent examples, a variety of modality-rich French media contexts, a representative view of the authorships and moments where identity positionings were activated. The theoretical framing leans on anterior results related to the circulation and reception of Francophone authors in Scandinavia and Sweden. Previous findings point Francophone authors as categorized through dichotomies, such as exotic-authentic, national-transnational and local-global. These oppositional terms have been used as analytical tools in the analysis of the data samples, in order to uncover how the author relates to these categories, takes advantage of them, and/or breaks with them in their construction of an author posture. The results show that Diome and Mabanckou adopt conscious strategies in order to avoid definitions, as well as to renegotiate concepts, such as ‘national’ and ‘migrant’. Mabanckou’s and Diome’s appearances in the media sample shed light on how transnational authors cultivate a posture in movement, and develop strategies of ‘reversibility’, ‘renegotiation’, ‘rebellion’, and ‘transgression of borders’.
Complexidade linguística e correção no desempenho oral de uma tarefa argumentativa
Authors: Santos Sara 
Published: November 2022

Na sequência de um estudo anterior relativo aos efeitos da manipulação da complexidadecognitiva na produção oral de uma tarefa monológica de transmissão de informação (Santos2018a), este trabalho teve como objetivo investigar o impacto do aumento das exigênciascognitivas no desempenho oral de uma tarefa argumentativa. A variável independente foi ofator “±poucos elementos” da Hipótese da Cognição (HC) de Robinson (2001, 2003, 2005,2010, 2011, 2015) e as variáveis dependentes foram medidas gerais e específicas de correçãoe medidas de complexidade linguística (complexidade sintática e diversidade lexical).Participaram no estudo trinta e três aprendentes chineses de português como línguaestrangeira. Os resultados demonstraram que a manipulação da complexidade cognitiva datarefa foi significativa ao nível da diversidade lexical. A Hipótese da Cognição foiconfirmada, apenas, no que respeita a esta dimensão da produção oral. A análise correlacionalentre as medidas de complexidade linguística e de correção não confirmou efeitos decompetição entre as duas dimensões, rejeitando-se, por isso, as premissas da abordagem daCapacidade Limitada de Atenção (CLA) de Skehan (1998, 2009, 2014, 2015, 2018). Osdados desta investigação são discutidos, tendo em conta os resultados obtidos no estudorealizado anteriormente com outro tipo de tarefa, ou seja, uma tarefa de transmissão deinformação (Santos 2018a).
Following a previous study on the effects of manipulating cognitive complexity on the oralproduction of a monologic information-giving task (Santos 2018a), this research work aimsto investigate the impact of increasing the cognitive demands of an argumentative task. Theindependent variable chosen was the “± few elements” of the Cognition Hypothesis proposedby Robinson (2001, 2003, 2005, 2010, 2011, 2015) and the dependent variables were generaland specific measures of accuracy and measures of linguistic complexity (syntacticcomplexity and lexical diversity). Thirty-three Chinese learners of Portuguese as a foreignlanguage participated in the study. The findings showed that increasing task complexity ledto a more lexically diverse speech. The Cognition Hypothesis was confirmed only in respectto lexical diversity. A correlational analysis between accuracy and complexity measures didnot confirm trade-off effects, as predicted by the Limited Attentional Capacity approach(Skehan 1998, 2009, 2014, 2015, 2018). The findings of this work are compared with thefindings of a previous study with a different task type, i.e., an information-giving task (Santos2018a).
El placer como estrategia política: la postpornoficción gonza de Gabriela Wiener
Authors: Mateo Del Pino Ángeles 
Published: November 2022

El siguiente trabajo se estructura en dos partes. En la primera, se establece un contraste entre los términos erótico y pornográfico, a partir del cual se hace un recorrido por la pornografía, para detenerse en los años setenta del siglo XX, década en la que se producen acalorados debates dentro del feminismo, entre quienes defienden la pornografía y quienes la condenan. Esto dio lugar en los ochenta a una reivindicación del placer femenino y de las dimensiones políticas de la vida erótica, lo que igualmente pondrá de relieve Annie Sprinkle con sus performances y con su manifiesto Post Porn Modernist (1991). Este será el origen de la postpornografía, que cuestiona los códigos estéticos, políticos y discursivos de la pornografía mainstream, rompe con el binarismo sexo/género y apuesta por nuevas narrativas de placer. En la segunda parte, retomando el concepto de “porno gonzo” y de postporno, analizaremos la obra Sexografías (2008) de Gabriela Wiener (Lima, 1975), cuya escritura se revela como una experiencia política construida a base de relatos detallados en los que construye y deconstruye la subjetividad, articulando un discurso crítico que cuestiona la realidad. Escritura de postpornoficción en la que emerge sin tapujos una sujeto deseante.
The following work is structured in two parts. In the first, a contrast is established between the terms erotic and pornographic, from which a tour of pornography is made, to stop in the seventies of the twentieth century, a decade in which heated debates within feminism take place, between those who defend pornography and those who condemn it. This gave rise in the 1980s to a demand for female pleasure and the political dimensions of erotic life, which Annie Sprinkle also highlights with her performances and her Post Porn Modernist manifesto (1991). This will be the origin of postpornography, which questions the aesthetic, political and discursive codes of mainstream pornography, breaks with the sex/gender binarism and opts for new narratives of pleasure. In the second part, taking up again the concept of “gonzo porn” and postporn, we will analyse the work Sexographies (2008) by Gabriela Wiener (Lima, 1975), whose writing reveals itself as a political experience built on detailed accounts in which she constructs and deconstructs subjectivity, thus articulating a critical discourse that raises doubts about reality. Post-pornographic writing in which a desiring subject emerges in an unabashed way.
An introductory overview on representation of dissident sexualities, abjection, and subversion in queer Gothic fiction
Authors: Dos Santos Andrio J. R. 
Published: November 2022

Queer Gothic may be considered one of the most recent subgenres of Gothic literature, being understood as a type of fiction in which body, gender and sexuality assume a central role. I approach the representation of queer sexualities in queer Gothic works, basing my analysis on the theory of abjection, as well as on other authors who work with Gothic fiction and Queer Studies, such as Judith Butler (1990), William Hughes and Andrew L Smith (2009) and Paulina Palmer (2016). My analysis consists of drawing a critical panorama, then commenting on Gothic works such as The Monk (1796), by Matthew Gregory Lewis, and The Fall of the House of Usher (1839), by Edgar Allan Poe, culminating in contemporary works such as the novel The Lazarus Heart (1998), by the trans author Poppy Z. Brite. It is possible to consider that in the aforementioned works Queer desires are articulated with supernatural or psychological phantasmagorias, assuming a liminal aspect which denounces the fragmentation of the Queer subject in face of hegemonic society. On the other hand, the representation of Queer sexualities has subversive potentials, while the hegemonic discourse imposes on them the stigma of abjection.
Regional Political Leadership in Sweden and Finland: Do Institutional Conditions Affect Influence Over Regional Development?
Authors: Sundqvist Emily 
Published: November 2022

Leading regional development is a key task for regional council representatives. Regional councils are responsible for fostering self-sufficient strategic development in cooperation with a range of stakeholders, including businesses, universities, NGOs and public authorities. However, little attention has been paid to investigating the conditions for regional political leadership, and the relationship between the regional councils’ institutional capacity and politicians’ perceived influence on regional development is somewhat unexplored. The aim of this article is thus to study whether institutional conditions affect the perceived influence of politicians.
A comparison is made in three types of regional councils in Sweden and Finland, employing a survey of 930 representatives. These councils share a similar responsibility for regional development, but they operate within different institutional conditions. Findings show that institutional conditions matter to some extent, with a higher institutional capacity strengthening the assembly’s position and increasing perceived influence at an individual level, though not necessarily increasing the regional councils’ possibilities to exercise strategic leadership. Moreover, regional councils with a higher institutional capacity are more autonomous organisations, while a lower degree of authority makes the regional councils more dependent on the state level.
The Co-creation Paradox: Small Towns and the Promise and Limits of Collaborative Governance for Low-Carbon, Sustainable Futures
Authors: Vedeld Trond 
Published: November 2022

Co-creation is considered a ‘near perfect strategy’ for resolving complex and unruly public problems, such as climate change. Based on data collected among small Scandinavian towns, this article investigates the role of co-creation in the urban governance of climate- and sustainability responses by looking at their vertical and horizontal integration in the wider polycentric governance framework. The article has a two-fold aim. First, it develops an analytical framework for investigating how small towns and municipalities navigate in a range of governance contexts based on two strains of theories on collaborative governance and urban climate governance. Second, it applies this framework to a comparative study of small towns to analyse how co-creation plays a strategic role across types and scales of governance in relation to an evolving climate agenda. The article finds that new forms of public leadership in each of the three municipalities and towns is a main factor in the ‘remaking’ of collaborative planning arenas, triple helix partnerships, business alliances, city networks and collaborative pilot projects, much in a similar manner as observed in global cities. Co-creation is extensively employed as a proactive policy- and leadership instrument. However, the nature of response is uneven across the cases compared. A co-creation paradox is suggested: limited municipal politico-administrative leadership and capacity correspond to a low level of ability to engage in co-creation of solutions. This implies that those organisations with the most need for co-creation may have the least capacity to do so.