RevistaInfoling 12.33 (2020)

Language Design is an academic journal that publishes linguistic research on relevant aspects of the design of natural languages. One of the principal objectives of Language Design is to foment debate and to integrate knowledge about the nature of language in general, and also the unity and diversity of particular languages. It is hoped that this will, in turn, contribute to a clearer and more cohesive vision of the emergence and evolution of natural languages, as well as their relations with other aspects of our environment.

The study of language design stems from the belief that natural language emerges and develops as a result of the conjunction, articulation, co-operation, and competition of elements and pressures, which move in cycles of permanent reorganization, and which are capable of eventually producing highly structured codes of communication.

One of the underlying principles of Language Design is the presupposition that the multiple structures and linguistic features found in different languages, in reality, constitute a set of solutions taken from a complex, though not infinite, range of possibilities, product of the interaction, clash, and compromise of many different types of factors (ontological, biological, psychological, cognitive, sociocultural and historical). Each of these factors can potentially determine design features in language through simultaneous interaction with the competing pressures and demands of other factors.

In consonance with this, the different languages of the world are both products and instruments, which have emerged from the same basic conditioning and as such, are subject to the same morpho-genetic forces. In this light, the differences between languages are  due more to the existence of a wide range of possible variations within the basic framework of natural language than to the pressures of economic evolution and cultural specificity. The various systems and structures manifest in different languages are thus variants within a very similar design process.

As a forum of debate, the aim of  this journal is to integrate recent advances in linguistics from a wide variety of different areas, such as historical linguistics, language typology, language acquisition, grammaticalization, etc. This naturally includes any study of the different aspects and areas of language (phonology, morphology, syntax, lexicology, semantic discourse analysis, pragmatics, sociolinguistics) which will help to elucidate language architecture. In conclusion, Language Design welcomes research articles from all theoretical viewpoints and methodological perspectives. The principal criterion for acceptance is that all articles should contribute in some way to furthering the understanding of the nature of language and its design features.

ANTONIO PORTELA LOPA
El humor verbal, objeto perfecto de las Ciencias del Lenguaje

RAÚL URBINA FONTURBEL
La función del 'delectare' en la argumentación publicitaria. El humor como estrategia persuasiva en la publicidad

EVA M. MIRANDA HERRERO
Mundo es de Andrés Trapiello como ejemplo del papel del humor en la frontera genérica del diario literario

ANETA TRIVIĆ
Los modelos estructurales fraseológicos en la conceptualización de las capacidades intelectuales: una aproximación contrastiva español-serbia

MARTA BUJÁN
Prosodic contrast in non-scripted humorous communication

CAROLINA CARVAJAL
Risa y transgresión en Juan Rafael Allende

VIRGINIA DIAZ GORRITI Y TOMAS VOUILLOZ LARRABEITI
¿Chiste sexista o sexismo en el chiste?

ESTHER LINARES BERNABÉU
Hacia un análisis del discurso humorístico reivindicativo desde la perspectiva de género

ARIADNA SAIZ MINGO
Humor errante y errado. Interaccionar en sociedad no receptora

LUISA TEJADA SEGURA
Humor y racismo: la figura del «cholo» como personaje cómico en el humor peruano

JORGE DIZ FERREIRAL
El proceso de contextualización en narrativas humorísticas: jab lines y construcción del marco interpretativo

MARÍA SIMARRO VÁZQUEZ
Humor multimodal en Twitter

MÓNICA FUENTES DEL RÍO
El humor verbal en la obra de Carmen Martín Gaite: de la teoría literaria a la práctica ficcional

ANDREEA STEFANESCU
El humor: "Un soplo delicado que se esparce por todos los pensamientos del escritor"

EMILIA VELASCO MARCOS
Sonreír ante lo insólito: Incidente en Atocha, de José Ferrer-Bermejo

MATHILDE TREMBLAIS
Las sonrisas del erotismo y sus significados en los relatos contemporáneos de escritoras de lengua francesa y española

FRANCISCO VILLANUEVA MACÍAS
La marginalización del humor: el humor sórdido en Los olvidados (1950) de Buñuel y en La calle de la amargura (2015) de Ripstein

MARÍA LÓPEZ CASTILLO
Lusus nominis. Los juegos de palabras en los epitafios latinos

JAVIER DEL HOYO
El humor en los graffiti y textos epigráficos de la antigua Roma

MIGUEL MARTÍN ECHARRI
Identificación de la ironía por patrones entonativos

KARIDJATOU DIALLO
"Côte d'Ivoire: On va se réconcilier pian!" o el humor, factor de cohesión social

ASUNCIÓN LAGUNA
El humor en los tiempos del mainstream: las referencias transmedia como recurso

CARLOTTA PARATORE
La traducción italiana de la comicidad verbal en el teatro de Jardiel Poncela: estrategias de compensación en la transposición de recursos humorísticos

DEMELSA ORTIZ CRUZ
¿Por qué no se ríen? Los monólogos en la clase de ELE (II)

CARMEN IBÁÑEZ VERDUGO
El humor como recurso estratégico en la formación del Grado de Maestro