Spas, steamships and sardines : Edwardian package tourism and the marketing of Galician regionalism [PDF]
From 1901 until the First World War, alongside its principal business of shipping rubber and leather to and from the USA and Northern Brazil, Liverpool's Booth Steamship Company (familiarly known as the ‘Booth Line’) ran a portfolio of highly successful ...
Hooper, Kirsty
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In this study we investigate the sources of individual differences in the language attitudes of 125 students enrolled in a language school in La Coruña (Galicia).
Jean-Marc Dewaele, Carmen Pena Diaz
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Transnational encounters : crossing borders in Galician translation and interpreting studies [PDF]
Exploring the ways in which languages and cultures interact across borders becomes particularly relevant in our increasingly interconnected world, as it ultimately enables an in depth understanding of how societies influence each other. Translation and
Castro, Olga, Linares, Laura
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Panorámica sociolingüística de la lengua gallega (s. XX-XXI)
Along history, Galician language has passed through golden and dark ages. Its speakers have been victims of a marginalization that took them to a deep situation of diglossia.
María Pardo Vuelta
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Forenames and Surnames in Spain in 2004 [PDF]
This paper quantifies the corpus of forenames and surnames in Spain in 2004 using the telephone directory. It describes their frequency patterns, major measurable characteristics, and gives some geographical distributions, international comparisons, and ...
Mateos, P, Tucker, DK
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Beyond Linguistic Proximity: Galicia and Portugal in International Negotiation
Studying the actions of several institutions, as well as the popular belief according to which Galician people and Portuguese people have enough common ground as to fully understand each other, this article considers the reality of the matter in the ...
Ana Belén Fernández-Souto +2 more
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The Retranslation and Mediated Translation of Audiovisual Content in Multilingual Spain: Reasons and Market Trends [PDF]
Retranslations are the second, third, fourth or nth-translations of the same text produced at a later stage. In the case of audiovisual content, retranslations occur under certain circumstances.
Chaume, Frederic
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Galician-Portuguese and the Politics of Language in Contemporary Galicia [PDF]
This chapter investigates the tensions around the legitimisation and contestation of the institutionalised standard variety for Galician and examines governmental language policies through the lens of standardisation activism. It looks at how the politics of language operates by focusing on continuing orthographic conflicts and their connection to ...
Dayan-Fernandez, Alejandro +1 more
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This study analyzes how Manuel Rivas takes advantage of the ambiguity of the concept of stereotype to create a Galician cultural identity. In Unha espía no Reino de Galicia (2004), Rivas suggests that the parodic image of Galicians and the set of ...
Pilar Martínez-Quiroga
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Elementos distópicos, influencias y profecías en Sueños eléctricos de Ramón Caride Ogando. Dystopian elements, influences and prophecies in Sueños eléctricos, by Ramón Caride Ogando. [PDF]
La obra objeto de este ensayo representa un hito en la historia de la literatura gallega contemporánea, puesto que es considerada la primera obra de ciencia ficción distópica escrita en lengua gallega. En primer lugar, cabe decir que Sueños eléctricos (
David González Díaz
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