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En este estudio quisiera profundizar el aspecto de la evangelización del mundo andino tratando de comprender cómo puede haber llegado el mensaje cristiano a los indígenas, traducido a las lenguas generales andinas, y cómo puede haber sido entendido e interpretado por ellos. Para eso, me parece importante enfatizar el punto de vista del recipiente dentro del modelo del acto de habla (speech act), es decir conviene estudiar los textos de instrucción religiosa bajo la interrogante de cómo la pob...

What are the legacies of the Algerian War of Independence in the present? More specifically, how do the Algerian War of Independence and its subsequent memorializations force us to reconceptualize historical temporality itself (of which the 'legacy' is but one variation)? The following introduction to this special issue provides an overarching framework for multiple answers to these questions. The first half of the introduction focuses on the philosophical and conceptual afterlives of the Alg...

First paragraph: Heterotopology was first theorised by Michel Foucault in his 1967 lecture 'Other Spaces' ('Des espaces autres'), delivered at the Cercle d'Etudes architecturales and later published in his Dits et Ecrits in 1994. Deriving from a medical term referring to 'tissue that is not normal where it is located, or an organ that has been dislocated' heterotopia's connection to space suggests its more metaphorical practice. Linguistically 'hetereo-topia' is 'other-place', and these place...

A study of the translation of advertising material cannot be restricted to the analysis of language transfer, as the effectiveness of advertisements is contingent upon the successful linkage of (audio)visual elements, media of dissemination and written text. This paper analyses the cross-cultural dissemination of advertisements for the video-game industry, examining commercial arguments from a linguistic and cultural perspective. It is posited here that, in spite of their apparent disparity, ...