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28-51

Authors: Gema del Carmen Valdés Acosta; Mercedes Garcés Pérez

In spite of the development in the last decades of the lexicographical afrohispanics studies, their theoretical and methodological bases are still in a continuous process of proposals for, starting from the general lexicography, to face the particular phenomena that are present in the study of the lexicon and their organization of these special contacts among languages. This report is about this problem, and it proposes adjustments for the field of study of the African linguistic legacy in Spanish of America. Starting from an analysis of the theories and current methods of the lexicography are analyzed the variations of the linguistic data that present many of these words; changes that have impeded, up to now, to establish orthographic norms for an elaboration of glossaries and dictionaries lowers scientific linguistic perspectives.

63-77

Authors: Adriana Pedrosa Ramírez; María Caridad Pérez Díaz; Aliney Santos Gallardo

The present work aims to characterize the style and communicative values in the novels El corazón de Voltaire (2005) and El silencio de Galileo (2009), by Luis López Nieves. The stylistic and linguistic presuppositions of the text have been used. Among the pragmatic resources that intervene in the stylistic configuration of novels are: the use of specialized vocabulary, the introduction of foreign languages and the use of deictic elements.

93-107

Authors: Bertha G. Salvador Jiménez; Esperanza L. Guelmes Valdés; Alfredo A. Camacho Delgado

However, despite the fact that the concept of competence is not new and that it is widely used nowadays, it is necessary to characterize the linguistic competence of foreign language teachers and to distinguish it from the linguistic competence of language learners for general purposes. That is why, after a process of systematization as the main method, academic linguistic competence is established and its distinctive features and parameters are provided. This paper explains this result and its application to the improvement of foreign language teacher education, particularly to the evaluation of a key area of the didactic competence of this professional: the academic linguistic competence.

126-136

Authors: Linnet Molina Rodríguez

The objective of the present research is to characterize the new professional roles that journalists and academics in order to insert the Cuban press in the process of journalistic convergence, in accordance with the Cuban social system. Four basic principles are established that must accompany the integrated newsrooms in the current Cuban context. It is determined how the implementation of journalistic convergence should not be seen as a purely organizational process, but requires transformations inherent in the professional culture of journalists, the conception of the message and the relations between the media and the political system.

149-165

Authors: Liena María Nieves Portal

The proposed objective is to determine the forms of social participation promoted by the Vanguardia weekly for the construction of the thematic agenda dedicated to young people, in order to transform the editorial policy of the press as a way of sustaining a legitimate, democratizing communication, participatory and interactive. The results presented reveal the inconsistencies between the public agenda and the thematic agenda of the newspaper (67,3% of the cases), revealing ignorance of the social problems that generate specific informational interests.

181-196

Authors: Ana Isabel Balmaseda Álvarez; Kirk Díaz-Guzmán Corrales

The objective of this study is the determination of thedifferentiating attributes of Villa Clara, with the purpose of generatingknowledge for the creation and administration of place brands in thecountry. An analysis of the historical, cultural, social and touristpotentialities of the territory was developed through a mixed methodology,and a mainly qualitative focus. The main results are focused in thedefinition of the history and the culture like attributes of Villa Clara infunction of the projection of their identity.