En 1978, Awa Thiam, antropóloga y activista política senegalesa, escribió La parole aux négresses, un ensayo con el que denunció, de forma pionera, la mutilación genital femenina y otras formas de violencia sufridas por las mujeres negro-africanas, como el blanqueamiento de la piel o la poligamia. A pesar de su relevancia, la obra fue silenciada tras su publicación, desapareciendo de las estanterías y del discurso público durante décadas. Sin embargo, en 2024, 46 años más tarde, el texto fue reeditado en Francia y Senegal, una doble aparición que ha permitido reconocer a Thiam no solo como una figura literaria esencial, sino también como una piedra angular en los movimientos contemporáneos en defensa de los derechos de las mujeres en África y su diáspora. Hoy, su obra es considerada como un texto clave en el panorama literario francófono y como el ensayo fundacional de los feminismos africanos.
This study presents a set of phraseological units derived from the Latin nouns cassis, laqueus, plaga, and rete. These terms are instruments for hunting and fishing which share the meaning "net" or "noose" and which can be employed in amatory contexts to portray the act of seduction of the desired or beloved other. A formal and semantic analysis of these units in their context will help elucidate whether they are collocations, locutions, or both. The corpus under analysis consists of Latin verse literature-elegiac, dramatic, and satirical poetry-from the republican and imperial periods (s. I a.d.). To compare the structure of these locutions in both languages, verse texts in Spanish (s. XIV-XVII) will also be examined.
The linguistic richness of a writer is manifested in the stylistic resources he uses to define the characters that intervene in his writings. The aim of this paper is to study the use of popular paremias (proverbs, proverbial phrases, dialogisms and proverbial phrases) in a contemporary literary text. For this purpose a methodology es applied, which takes into account the complex nature of these short and sententious statements. The literary text chosen is the comedy El faro [The lighthouse], by Rafael Negrete-Portillo, not only because of its contemporary relevance, being published in 2025, but also because it has received the Antonio Machado 2025 International Prize, awarded by the Antonio Machado Foundation in Collioure. The results obtained will make it possible to verify, on the one hand, the validity of the methodology applied and, on the other, whether the use of paremias has contributed to the creation of a feigned orality.
The aim of this article is to assess the passive phraseological competence of university students with an advanced level of language (Spanish and French), in relation to their paremiological competence. Therefore, the information obtained in this case study on phraseological competence has been contrasted with the information extracted from a previous study (Hu & eacute;scar and M. Sevilla, 2024) on paremiological competence developed with the same methodology. Through the results obtained from this study, the suggested objectives have been achieved, as well as validating the two proposed hypotheses, since it has been found that the phraseological competence of the participants is limited. However, the phraseological competence of the sample studied is higher than the paremiological competence of another similar sample in terms of age and language level analyzed in Hu & eacute;scar and M. Sevilla (2024).
Linguistic research requires comprehensive and representative resources to accurately reflect the phenomena under analysis. This study explores the synonyms and phraseological variants of the Spanish expression ganarse la vida (make a living). In a first phase, the synonymic content of ganarse la vida is examined through a selection of 17 dictionaries of various types, including synonym dictionaries, thesauri, and both monolingual and bilingual dictionaries. In a second phase, after outlining the concept of phraseological variation, the phenomenon is illustrated using the Sketch Engine tool and the esTenTen18 corpus. The results point to a broad set of synonymous and variant expressions whose frequency and distribution support their inclusion in the development of linguistic and lexicographic resources.
