An important form of transmission of knowledge about the Spanish nation is based on the continuous telling of stories in which the nation features as a suprahistorical, perennial entity. Myths of national origin, golden-age legends, and epics of national heroes…

This article finds fault with three practices in  social psychology. The first, interpretative condescension, is visible in social psychology's use of the “person” as a term, concept, notion, and so on. Generally, “persons” are taken to be “cultural dopes”, for…

Mediante una metodología multidisciplinar e integradora la psicología social histórica emerge en el panorama científico social actual como una perspectiva de pensamiento útil no sólo para el bagaje teórico de la psicología social sino también, y por extensión, para el…

El presente trabajo estudia los estilos disímiles que las sociedades contemporáneas adoptan cuando se enfrentan al dominio de la complejidad y lo desconocido. Másconcretamente, se examina por qué los posibles riesgos adversos asociados a los nuevos cultivos transgénicos pueden ser,…

En este artículo se presenta un sistema automático de categorización
de texto multi-etiqueta que hace uso del metatesauro UMLS (Unified Medical Language
System). El sistema ha sido probado sobre un corpus biomédico que incluye
textos muy cortos pertenecientes a expedientes…

The main contention in this paper is that the process of communicating scientific knowledge could be compared to the role of the translator as communicator (Hatim & Masón, 1997). Like the translator, the task of the scientist is to encode…

This article explores the way in which text worlds are created in advertising discourse by analysing linguistic choices and features of context which are crucial in the determination of specific relations between sender(s) and target audience(s), in particular, deixis and…

Content vocabulary may have different connotative values and different denotational meanings in different languages according to cultural idiosyncracy, manifested in culture-specific "key" meanings and culture-related scripts. Our claim here is that, even in all these cases involving the use of…

Recent work on the application of relevance theory to humorous speech-acts (jokes) defines these as being characterised by an increased demand in processing effort for the attainment of maximum contextual effects. This increase, however, is limited to the resolution of…

Novelty is a concept of great importance in the writing of a research paper, given that the author has to persuade the audience of the news value of the reported research, which makes it worth publishing. In this paper I…