Spanish is a language with great possibilities of expressiveness, so the speaker of the Cuban variant of Spanish has various resources to articulate the weighting. In this way, the study of the superlative is current in linguistic research, where it includes all those phenomena that increase, expand and / or exaggerate, traits, qualities or communicative situations. This paper analyzes the expression of the superlative in the novel Tumbaga by Samuel Feijóo and, specifically, focuses on the textual level. The analysis of this novel means the search for popular and Cuban essences, as is the case of the expression of the superlative. In this sense, the objective is to describe the linguistic procedures that express the superlative at the textual level of the novel Tumbaga by Samuel Feijóo. The methodological foundation is based on authors such as Albelda Marco (2005 [2004] and 2014), Arboleda Granda (2012) and González Calvo (1984-1988) who precisely studies the superlative at the textual level. In the novel, different textual procedures that enhance the expressive content and take full significance in the communicative context are recognized.The following linguistic procedures stand out: superlative content by accumulation and superlative valuation; the profusion of linguistic procedures, such as the amplifying metaphor. The profusion of expressions and resources to superlativize at the textual level is evidenced, which also have a marked stylistic character.

Introducción: La función social de los Comités de Defensa de la Revolución (CDR), distingue la esencia de la organización, en correspondencia con las demandas del VIII Congreso del Partido Comunista de Cuba (PCC) para consolidar un socialismo próspero y sostenible desde la comunidad. La investigación, es resultado de tesis doctoral, tiene como objetivo analizar el alcance histórico y sus principales aportes en Cuba, desde el pensamiento revolucionario de Fidel Castro. Métodos: Se emplean los métodos: dialéctico-materialista, análisis-síntesis, histórico y lógico, los principales resultados están en el estudio de los fundamentos históricos de la función social cederista y su materialización en la práctica comunitaria. Resultados: Los resultados evidencian, a partir de las tendencias de trabajo, el papel que desempeña y la manera de relacionarse con otros factores de su espacio social, así como, la relación con la sociedad en su conjunto. Desde el análisis teórico de los CDR se enriquecen a partir del reconocimiento e identificación de los períodos esenciales, donde se producen los principales cambios institucionales, normativos, ideológicos, relaciones políticas del país y su influencia en el modo de participación del pueblo como sujeto masivo de poder. Conclusiones: En el análisis de las tendencias de los sistemas de trabajo de los CDR la función social expresa las relaciones de interdependencia de los elementos que componen la sociedad. En el estudio de las etapas históricas, se considera que los CDR afianzan su participación desde experiencias de trabajo en la comunidad, que se desarrolla con perspectiva de mejoras, a partir de articular y armonizar la presencia del pueblo en la proyección y ejecución de estrategias comunitarias para satisfacer las necesidades materiales y espirituales de la sociedad cubana.

This paper treats the use of non-finite forms of verbs in front and back page news reports, published in Vanguardia, the provincial newspaper of Villa Clara province in central Cuba during the second semester of 2016. The 55 % of verbs used in 109 news reports published in 26 issues were non-finite forms of verbs which affects the clarity and conciseness of the account, the most significant features that should predominate in a news report. The determining factor of this situation was that journalists didn’t use a style manual when writing reports.

The objective of this work is to describe the ways of prosodic marking of the focus and its pragmatic values in the teacher’s speech. In each focused element, F0, Intensity and Time are measured to determine their incidence in the focus marker. The results demonstrated the use of certain prosodic marks to highlight the informative components of the statement. The priority use of tonal prominence accompanied or not by a rise in intensity and division in an independent attuning unit, can be seen as marking strategies. To a lesser extent, the vocal elongation and the slowing down of the speak rate.

The objective of this work is to describe the ways of prosodic marking of the focus and its pragmatic values in the teacher’s speech. In each focused element, F0, Intensity and Time are measured to determine their incidence in the focus marker. The results demonstrated the use of certain prosodic marks to highlight the informative components of the statement. The priority use of tonal prominence accompanied or not by a rise in intensity and division in an independent attuning unit, can be seen as marking strategies. To a lesser extent, the vocal elongation and the slowing down of the speak rate.

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.

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.

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.

The locution somatic elements, their structure and functions in the phrase are analyzed taking into account the criteria of Gloria Corpas in the Manual de fraseología española (1997). In the first stage, the structure and the somatic lexemes functions were analyzed, as well as their representativeness in the corpus. Following Gloria Corpas’ criteria of the structural and functional classification, functional categories of somatic locutions were determined. The present study contributes to enrich the knowledge of phraseological volume of the aged, its structural and functional features as much as its somatic elements.

This research paper was motivated by the shortage of studies related to how the woman is represented in Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda’s books non fictional prose. This investigation is set to systematize the representation of the woman by this 19th-century Cuban author, specifically in her non fictional prose. The main result of the present investigation glimpses that Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda’s incursion in the non fictional prose devices a subversion program of the hegemonic-patriarchal discourse standing from the reflexive literature, and it proposes the feminine emancipation from the public writing, since the non fictional prose has been used by the author as a vehicle to express her vision of the woman which opposed to the 19th-century ideal.

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.

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.