(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2022-12-23) Vich, Víctor
This essay studies the representation of subjectivity in Oliverio Girondo’s poetry based on three types of figurations: the decentering of identity, the crisis of the will and the death drive. The analysis attempts to show, on the one hand, the importance that these representations had in a context that demanded unitary, coherent and productive subjects and, on the other hand, to locate the critique that this poetry addresses to modern reason. The essay lists the strategies elucidated to reconfigure subjectivity before the world, before language and before itself.
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2022-12-23) Luque Amo, Álvaro
This article studies the literary diaries of four authors: Julio Ramón Ribeyro (Peru), Mario Levrero (Uruguay), Ricardo Piglia (Argentina) and Andrés Trapiello (Spain), with the aim of analyzing the role that writing linked to literary reflection, criticism and commentary played in these texts. A joint perspective of these works allows us to understand the relevance of metaliterary writing in the configuration of the personal diaries published from the last decades of the twentieth century onwards in the Hispanic context. This thematic aspect strengthens two crucial aspects of the diaries : on the one hand, it reaffirms their literary entity; on the other hand, it gives the personal diary a series of qualities as a critical-literary tool that the diarist uses for different purposes.
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2022-12-23) Muñoz de Morales Galiana, Javier
This paper aims to carry out an analysis of the novel Efectos del amor propio (c. 1810) using a broader theoretical framework than the one that has been used so far to study it. Thus, we consider that it can be typified as “autofiction”, a type of novel in which the identity of the main character and that of the author are mixed up, and which is conditioned by a new way of understanding artistic creation that emerged in the early nineteenth century: the “expressive theory of art”, applicable to works whose main purpose was the intimate venting of the author.
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2022-12-22) Muñoz Pérez, Carlos; Verdecchia, Matías
In this paper we analyze the information structure of predicate doubling in Rioplatense Spanish (e.g., Leer, leyó ‘as for reading, she/he read’). We propose that in this construction the dislocated predicate functions as a contrastive topic in the sense of Büring (2003), that is, it evokes a set of alternative questions with which it contrasts. We argue that this characterization explains the “continuation effect” that predicate doubling exhibits, i.e., the fact that a predicate doubling sentence suggests a potential continuation that involves another predicate. Moreover, we show that this analysis correctly predicts the distribution of predicate doubling in embedding contexts.
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2022-12-22) Cerrón-Palomino, Rodolfo; Cangahuala Castro, Sergio
Scientific etymology, as opposed to the naive or the purely impressionistic, finds its strongest support in historical linguistics, and, in turn, within this discipline, in its consecratory discovery of the regularity of sound change. By virtue of this attribute, the researcher, in this case the etymologist, is capable of finding the etymology of a given term of which he wasn’t yet sure. Furthermore, by taking into account the regularity of the change, he can predict it, even in absence of available corroborating corpus at hand. Empirical confirmation for an etymological prospect can be found either with the discovery of novel dialect forms not previously known, or by virtue of unsuspected evidence provided by philologically interpreted written record. The present work aims to demonstrate the importance of written source, printed or manuscript, as a rich and inexhaustible vein of information thanks to which the hypothetical postulations made by the etymologist can be tested and eventually corroborated. More specifically, this essay will test the impressive predictive potential of regular sound change by using examples taken from Quechua and Aymara. Our exposition goes as follows: after a general introduction on the development of historical linguistics in the Andean region, we focus our discussion on regular sound change and its predictive nature within Andean linguistics studies with corroborating evidence of dialectal as well as documental (published) material. A fourth section provides new and revealing archival evidence. In sum, the evidence provided, both printed or unpublished, revolves around the etymology of onomastic terms such as Inca, a nobility title, and Yauyos, a well-known Andean ethno-toponym.
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2022-12-21) Elias-Ulloa, José
This article studies the role that stress, and the word-initial syllable has on the spirantization of the intervocalic voiced stops in the Spanish of Lima. Through the analysis of how frequently the stop and approximant allophones of the voiced stops occur and intensity ratio measurements of those allophones, the study found out that there is an asymmetry between the spirantization patterns of non-velar and velar stops. It was also found out that the interaction between stress and the word-initial syllable can inhibit the spirantization of /b, d/ up to a certain degree, and that stress can increase the amount of constriction of their approximant allophones, [β, ð]. Those same prosodic factors do not have any effect on the spirantization of /ɡ/. It regularly surfaces as the velar approximant, [ɣ], in intervocalic environments.
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2022-12-23) Rodríguez González, Félix
The purpose of this article is to examine some of the sudden changes that have recently taken place in the European Spanish lexis, especially in times of the coronavirus pandemic. Due to the strong feelings that arose during the lockdown period, the linguistic processes registered have a marked emotional character and a political tinge, and respond to semantic and morphological motivations. On the one hand, usual resources in political rhetoric stand out, such as euphemism and, above all, dysphemism, which by metaphorical means tends towards irony and humor. From the morphological angle, the same end, blends and lexical creations based on acronyms stand out.
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2022-12-22) Zavala, Virginia; Almeida, Claudia
In this article, we analyze uses of “motoso” and “motoso terruco” in Peruvian politics, produced in social networks (Twitter and Facebook), which account for a semiotic process of indexical inversion in the functioning of the language ideology of motoseo. In this context, speaking “motoso” no longer refers to concrete forms of speech associated with a social group, but to practices and discourses that produce a meta-pragmatic knowledge of how “Indians” supposedly speak or should speak. The reinvention of “motoso” in articulation with “terruco” would be revealing new dynamics in the way cultural racism functions in Peru. Specifically, it emerges as a strategy to racialize, relocate and, above all, silence political figures who are seen as potential threats to a prevailing social order of colonial and neoliberal character.
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2022-12-23) Ibarra Herrera, Daniela; Guerrero González, Silvana; Gajardo Moller, Consuelo; González Riffo, Javier
This paper analyses concessive resources with a mitigating function which are found in argumentative acts in the PRESEEA corpus from Santiago, Chile. Based on data from 36 semi-structured interviews, the behaviour of concessive-oppositional moves and concessive discourse particles in argumentative acts is analyzed, and their sociolinguistic variation is described in relation to the speakers’ gender, age and level of education. The key findings highlight that in Chilean Spanish there are at least 12 strategies that fulfill a mitigating concessive function, among which “sí, pero (yes, but) + negation”, “aunque (even though)”, “no, pero (no, but) + assertion” and “a pesar (de) que (despite the fact that)” stand out. These strategies are linked to the functions of self-protection and face prevention in the development of the argumentative act. Furthermore, it is also observed that the variation is mostly due to the subject’s age.
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2022-12-23) Enríquez Duque, Paola
The Kichwa language is used in commercial names in Quito, the capital of Ecuador, where most of the population self-identifies as mestizo and does not speak Kichwa. The usage of Kichwa is very limited in social interactions in Quito, yet its presence in the city’s linguistic landscape is evident. These names are associated with concepts like organic, artisanal, or national; and so assign an additional commercial value to the product. Accordingly, surveys and interviews show that the meanings of Kichwa words in commercial names are unknown by the population. This use of the Kichwa language represents a case of cultural exploitation as it is causing the language to be resignified through a process of language commodification resulting in commercial benefits.
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2022-12-23) Orduz Rodríguez, Frank Alexander
This article studies El patio de los vientos perdidos (1984), the first novel by Colombian writer Roberto Burgos Cantor. From the parameters of The novel of the enchantment of interiority, a category proposed by Hélène Pouliquen (2018), it shows how the moments of plenitude oppose radical skepticism. Thus, it examines how paradigms that organize an ethic of interiority operate in the novel, where the characters experience moments of fullness despite their difficult realities.
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2022-12-23) Santistevan, Alfonso
Los patriotas de Lima en la noche feliz, a stage play that is part of the performative program of the declaration of the independence of Peru in 1821, has been mostly studied based on its content and style. This article reviews the way this play has been approached from different disciplines and proposes a study from the aesthetics of the performative. From an analysis of the performative components, both mimetic and ritual, it is suggested to pay attention to the exclusions, the symbolic and fictional spaces, and the character hierarchy that the play proposes. In this way, this study reveals the play’s contradictions and limitations when it comes to representing the emerging Peruvian republic: the inaugural work of republican theater envisions a rational, “civic” and white/creole Peru that excludes the possibility of a heterogeneous nation.
