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Authors: Gema Mestre Varela

This paper reflects on the writing of students in the ninth grade at the “José Martí” High School. It is part of the project «Authorship of the word-thought in children and adolescents of Santa Clara», which is in full development. A sample of written productions related to topics of daily life, cultural identity, family groups, among others is analyzed. The evaluation criteria are based on those applied by Unesco in a regional investigation whose precepts are contemplated in Contributions for the teaching of writing. In our analysis some aspects were added because it dealt with ninth grade students. The discursive dimension, the textual dimension and the legibility conventions dimension constitute nuclear elements and conductors in this study. The results achieved encourage us to continue this project.

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Authors: María Dolores Cerdeira, Leila Samira Martínez Caluff

The university student, from his or her methodological and teaching function, is in charge of creating and applying procedures and means to develop the lexical flow. One way to extend this action is through the authorship of the word, because it offers the opportunity to satisfy the needs, interests and motivations of a particular group of students. This paper specifies the characteristics of a brochure that is the product of the authorship of the word of a young university student of pedagogical training. The brochure is a cultural and linguistic contribution because the authorship of the word expresses themes related to relations of social coexistence, environmental education, respect for diversity, and defense of identity. It provides a didactic procedure for the analysis, understanding and construction of meanings. Keywords: word authorship; lexical flow; university student of pedagogical training; pedagogical training.

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Authors: Chavely Pérez Espinosa, Mercedes Garcés Pérez

This research characterizes Lisandro Otero´s style in the chronicles compiled in Avisos de ocasión. With that aim, a stylistic analysis is carried out, particularly at the syntactic level, having as a starting point the study of subordination as a process for the formation of compound sentences and discourse connectors. As the main result achieved, it is shown that Lisandro Otero portrays a style understandable to every public because, despite the high levels of subordination in some paragraphs, it prevails a clear and simple language. The appropriate use of discourse connectors; the abundance of transitive sentences in the text, that manifests the author´s intention of get as much information as possible to the readers, avoiding misinterpretations; and the prevalence of active sentences demonstrate the level achieved by the author in the exercise of journalism.

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Authors: Denise Prado González, Sandra Salomón Gregorio

The objective of this research is to analyze how metaphor and metonymy manifest in the process of forming somatic locutions in Ciego de Ávila youth speech. The metonymic and metaphorical values of the somatic locutions are identified, they were classified according to the criteria of Nissen for metonymy and of George Lakoff and Mark Johnson for metaphor, and the figurative senses attributed to these somatic locutions were recognized. This research will contribute to expand the studies on this linguistic discipline, it will contribute to a new thematic line, because there have been few works of this nature in our country. It will demonstrate the phraseological creativity of the speakers and will contribute to the characterization of the regional language variant.

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Authors: Elisaliz Oramas Torres

In the today´s world, the interpreter is characterized by three main aspects: the knowledge of the source and target languages, the knowledge of the culture of those languages and the academic training. Nowadays the interpreters are no longer self-educated as in past decades; now they develop, in educational institutions, the cognitive abilities they need to work as translators and interpreters such as good memory, concentration, intuition, speed, etc. To promote and develop these skills, we present a compilation of exercises that according to our teaching experience have turned out to be very useful in the development of the lexical competence of students of the course English language with a Second Foreign language: French.

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Authors: Sabdiel Batista Díaz

Through an in-depth process of analysis and synthesis of reports, research and publications, changes in the news consumption habits of the world’s population, which now prefers to be informed through mobile devices, are demonstrated. This represents a change in current communication models, where traditional media are not the only ones with the possibility of producing news and information, but also the recipients themselves. There are two fundamental characteristics that are now marking the way young people consume information: the social and the mobile. The former receivers have become prosumers; that is, producers and consumers of information through mobile phones. Descargas

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Authors: Erianne González Rodríguez

Regardless of the ideological differences between the Cuban Revolution and the Spain of Franco and the existence of events that happened between them, this situation did not affect the bilateral relations between these two countries. All this got expressed in the main sources of diverse nature that have been discovered from 1959 to our days. The objective of this work is to accomplish a historiographical analysis about the sources found in Cuba to study the relations between both countries, in which the method of documentary analysis performed a fundamental role. In the research, an insufficiency of sources to carry out the study has been identified.