Blending Technologies and Translation Strategies to Optimise Learning Processes

Ponencia presentada pendiente de que se pida para publicaciónTrainers should accept the growing dependence of learners, especially in the case of beginners, have on the use of translation tools and all kind of automatic resources to save time and also to easily find terminology. However, translation strategies, culture competence and terminology pose challenges that must be faced with the right skills beside web basic aids. We are conducting research on the use of corpora tools by students and their competences, first by using surveys and, later on, giving then the instructions to elaborate their own parallel or comparable corpus ad hoc to work with translation assignments. This research focus on the elaboration of glossaries in the legal field using corpora tools and the feedback of students’ awareness of the benefits of technologies when they are properly managed from the beginning of their training. Paradoxically, although technologies appear to have a widespread use in training and learning activities, we found that an intensive training is often needed to optimize students’ translation skills by using translation program and resources.Universidad de Málaga. Campus de Excelencia Internacional Andalucía Tech

The European Union and new dimensions of citizenship

The European integration process raises interesting challenges to the conceptualization and the exercise of citizenship in a multinational cosmopolitan context. Certainly, the current institutional architecture of the European Union (EU) faces tough criticism. On the one hand, anti-European parties and Euro-skeptics, by means of Euro-exit initiatives and on nationalist grounds, challenge the very existence of the European integration project. On the other hand, federalist and pro-European intellectuals often complain that the EU has not gone far enough with respect to the democratic, the civic and/or the social integration of the Union. In spite of such criticism, the European integration process has given rise to a novel and singular form of citizenship: the so-called dual form of citizenship. The European dual form of citizenship entails a combination of national and supranational civic membership. EU citizenship –which is automatically conferred on every EU citizen by the Treaty on the Functioning of the EU–, does not replace, but complements national citizenship. In this regard, it implies the automatic expansion and improvement of citizens’ rights and opportunities –for example, the right to vote and stand as a candidate in municipal and European Parliament elections and the right to move and reside freely within the EU–. Moreover, EU treaties (now including the Chapter of Fundamental Rights of the EU, legally binding on the supranational institutions and on national governments since 1 December 2009) and institutions such as the Court of Justice of the European Union, contribute to the enhancement of the legal and judicial mechanisms for the protection of basic rights. In spite of these benefits and achievements, the democratic shortcomings of the EU’s decision-making architecture encourage citizens’ distrust of the EU. In addition, one basic goal and achievement of the European integration project, which is citizens’ mobility within the EU, is facing serious setbacks. Indeed, the Schengen Agreements allow for exceptions which are too easily employed by the member states in order strengthen their borders controls and restrict intra-European mobility; which has just intensified as a consequence of the economic crisis, and more recently, the “refugees crisis”. The focus of my paper is on the conceptual challenge that the European integration project raises to the modern idea of citizenship. One of the basic conditions for the exercise of the democratic citizenship has traditionally been national membership. Yet, this has just been challenged by the European integration process and the dual form of citizenship that it has guaranteed. In Section 08, of the ECPR General Conference, I would like to address the conceptual implications of EU citizenship.Universidad de Málaga. Campus de Excelencia Internacional Andalucía Tech

Global well-posedness and asymptotic behavior in Besov-Morrey spaces for chemotaxis-Navier-Stokes fluids

In this work we consider the Keller-Segel system coupled with Navier-Stokes equations in $\mathbb{R}^{N}$ for $N\geq2$. We prove the global well-posedness with small initial data in Besov-Morrey spaces. Our initial data class extends previous ones found in the literature such as that obtained by Kozono-Miura-Sugiyama (J. Funct. Anal. 2016). It allows to consider initial cell density and fluid velocity concentrated on smooth curves or at points depending on the spatial dimension. Self-similar solutions are obtained depending on the homogeneity of the initial data and considering the case of chemical attractant without degradation rate. Moreover, we analyze the asymptotic stability of solutions at infinity and obtain a class of asymptotically self-similar ones.Comment: 22 pages. Some typos have been corrected. Some references have been updated/correcte

Análisis crítico de las prácticas discursivas en torno al plan de reforma de la muralla árabe en el centro histórico de Valencia

E ste artículo pretende acercarse a la problemática causada por un plan urbanístico en el centro histórico de Valencia: el de recuperación de la muralla árabe del barrrrio del Carmen. Partimos del Análisis Crítico de Discurso (ACD ) como marco metodológico y nos planteamos como objetivo analizar las prácticas discursivas procedentes de los grgrupos enfrentados a causa del plan urbanístico. Ello nos permitirá participar en una dialéctica de discursos en conflicto y revelar de qué manera construyen su identidad los diferentes actores sociales implicados

El teatro de José Saramago por él mismo

We transcribe, in this article, the words pronounced by the Portuguese author José Saramago, who was awarded in 1998 the Nobel Prize for Literature, in occasion of a lecture given at the Complutense University of Madrid in may 1995. During his speech, Saramago spoke about his theatre writings.Se reproducen en este artículo las palabras pronunciadas por el dramaturgo portugués José Saramago, Premio Nobel de Literatura en 1998, con motivo de una conferencia en la Facultad de Filología de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid en el mes de mayo de 1995. En esta intervención, Saramago habló sobre su producción teatral

Fisuras en los monopolios discursivos de dos narradores: el indio inexistente de «Huasipungo» y el indio ausente de «Raza de bronce»

<div><div><div><div><p class="AbstractParagraphsGold"><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Cambria; font-size: xx-small;">Two were the main concerns in Latin America during the first half of the twentieth century: the consolidation of the nation-State and the incipient development of capitalism. In the Andes the “Indian problem” added complexity to these concerns. This article proposes a comparative analysis of how Alcides Arguedas, with Raza de bronce (1919), and Jorge Icaza, with Huasipungo (1934) –despite similarities in their social projects, the racism of their speeches and the stories that they address– differ in how they incorporate indigenous issues into the novel. If Huasipungo’s social realism responds to a need for change in the relations of production, Raza de bronce’s critical realism responds to a fear of an indigenous uprising. The above is not, however, the central difference. The latter consists of a monopolistic coherence in the narrative discourse of Icaza versus the fissures that literary modernism produces in Arguedas’ positivism. As a result, the social narrative of these writers creates a bourgeois responsibility in Huasipungo (where the indigenous cultural universe is reduced to a non-existence) and a dangerous indigenous potential in Raza de bronce (where the reader does not feel the presence of the Andean cultural world, but neither its non-existence).</span></p><div><p class="KeywordsTitleBlue"><em><strong><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Calibri; font-size: xx-small;">Las preocupaciones centrales de la primera mitad del siglo XX en Latinoamérica pueden resumirse en las siguientes dos: la consolidación del estado-nación y el desarrollo incipiente del capitalismo. En los Andes se añade además la problemática indígena. En este trabajo planteo un análisis comparativo de cómo Alcides Arguedas, con Raza de bronce (1919), y Jorge Icaza, con Huasipungo (1934) –pese a asemejarse en el proyecto social que promulgan, el racismo de sus discursos y la historia que cuentan– se diferencian en cómo incorporan la problemática indígena a la novelística de la época. Si el realismo social de Huasipungo responde a la necesidad de cambio de las relaciones de producción, el realismo crítico de Raza de bronce responde al temor de un levantamiento indígena. La anterior no es, sin embargo, la diferencia central. Esta última consiste en la coherencia monopólica del discurso narrativo de Icaza versus las fisuras que el modernismo produce en el positivismo de Arguedas. Como resultado, el proyecto social de estos escritores compone una responsabilidad burguesa en Huasipungo (donde el universo cultural indígena es reducido a su inexistencia) y una peligrosa potencialidad indígena en Raza de bronce (donde, efectivamente, no experimentamos la presencia del mundo cultural andino, pero al menos tampoco su inexistencia).</span></strong></em></p></div></div><p class="AbstractParagraphsGold"><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Cambria; font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span></p></div></div></div

La condición cívico-política en el marco post-nacional y de la Unión Europea

El proceso de integración europea pone de relieve la dimensión cosmopolita y transnacional que caracteriza a la ciudadanía del siglo XXI. Ciertamente, no existe consenso sobre cómo definir mejor a la Unión Europea políticamente: si ésta debe ser vista como un proceso de gobernanza supranacional, una forma de cooperación intergubernamental, una arquitectura multi-nivel de toma de decisiones y constitucional, o un tipo de organización federal. Lo cierto es que la soberanía de los estados miembros en la Unión es ya una soberanía compartida con las instituciones comunitarias, donde conviven dos dinámicas: por un lado, la dimensión inter-gubernamental que está presente en el Consejo Europeo donde se encuentran representados los estados; por otro, la dimensión supranacional que expresa y representa la voluntad de la ciudadanía europea, a través del Parlamento Europeo y del órgano ejecutivo, la Comisión Europea. Tal doble dimensión, inter-gubernamental y supranacional, pone de relieve la complejidad y la novedad de la Unión Europea desde el punto de vista político. Pero, asimismo, el proceso de integración ha dado lugar a una ciudadanía cosmopolita y dual que merece ser analizada para entender el futuro de la condición cívica: la de los estados y la supranacional. La presente propuesta invita a reflexionar sobre las características y los retos fundamentales de la ciudadanía dual europea, con el fin de debatir cómo entender la condición cívico-política en un marco post-nacional.Universidad de Málaga. Campus de Excelencia Internacional Andalucía Tech

El relato audiovisual: del relato clásico al relato interactivo

La irrupción de las llamadas nuevas tecnologías es un hecho que impregna todas las capas de nuestra sociedad. Como no podía ser menos, la Narrativa Audiovisual se configura como una disciplina que ha de dar cuenta de los cambios acaecidos, si es que los hay, que esta proliferación de nuevos medios provoca en los distintos aspectos de los que dicha área de la ciencia se ocupa. Así, es importante dilucidar cuáles son las consecuencias de la creación de textos narrativos que se materializan en soportes interactivos y que se vehiculan a través de nuevos medios que poseen características distintas a los tradicionales medios de comunicación masiva.The entrance of the technologies is a fact that affects to all levels in our society. As expected, the Audio-visual Narrative is configured as a discipline that must report about new changes, if existing, that this prolification provocated by the new media in the different aspects that this area of the science deal. It is very important to clarify which are the consecuencies of creating narrative texts that end up in interactive medium and are transmited through the new media with different carasteristics to the traditional ones