Boletín de la Academia Peruana de la Lengua

An approach to the lectionary as a discursive genre of record in the chilean school context

Martín Álvarez Cruz — 2025-09-05

Different genres of discourse have been addressed in studies of professional discourse, but there is little empirical evidence on this subject (Foscarini, 2013). This paper presents an approach to the lectionary genre from a rhetorical-discourse analysis perspective based on genre studies that allow for a text graphic description (Swales and McCarty, 2017). The aim was to describe the discourse characteristics and rhetorical structure of the lectionary in the Chilean context and to situate it in relation to other genres and practices in the field of education. For this purpose, interviews were conducted, regulatory documentation was analyzed, and a sample of one hundred lessons from ten different lectionaries was examined. The analysis of content and linguistic discourse reveals two mandatory and recursive steps (contextualizing a lesson in lesson planning and describing the lesson) to fulfill the purpose of the lesson plan as a genre of record aligned with other genres, such as lesson planning.

Ekphrasis in "Historia natural", by José Watanabe, and "Un reloj derramado en el desierto", by Alejandro Susti

Camilo Rubén Fernández-Cozman — 2025-08-19

In this paper, we analyze the poetry collections Historia natural by José Watanabe and Un reloj derramado en el desierto by Alejandro Susti, based on the concept of ekphrasis, which involves an intertextual dialogue between painting and poetry. Our central hypothesis is that Watanabe and Susti use ekphrasis to demystify a repertoire of ideas and traditions institutionalized by the ruling classes. Both authors develop this demystification through certain figurative fields, such as metaphor, metonymy, and antithesis. For this study, we use Umberto Eco's (1985) concept of demystification and Stefano Arduini's (2000) category of figurative fields.

Cancer and escape from the body: poetics of concealment and politics of vulnerability in "Medicinas para quebrantamientos del halcón" (2014), by Eduardo Chirinos

Ana Lucía Martínez — 2025-08-20

In this paper, we examine the biological metaphors of cancer in Medicinas para quebrantamientos del halcón (2014), by the Peruvian poet Eduardo Chirinos, based on a textual and hermeneutic analysis with an interdisciplinary approach. We propose that Chirinos articulates, on the one hand, a poetics of concealment, based on strategies of escape that evoke evasion and camouflage, and, on the other hand, a politics of vulnerability, reconfiguring fragility as a space of resistance. In the first part of the analysis, we study the metaphors of cancer, the metastasis, and the bodily metamorphosis to show how the poet constructs an imaginary of the oncological body through the multiplicity of voices, the detachment of the sick body, and the openness to the unknown. In the second part, we examine how the author's hearing impairment intervenes in his construction of otherness, establishing an affiliation with the fragile that reinforces his politics of vulnerability. The results of the study suggest that Chirinos' work not only challenges orthodox conceptions of health and well-being but also posits illness and dysfunction as constitutive dimensions of contemporary human identity.

“Here i was (Am)”: an approach to the forgotten poetics of Julia Ferrer

Emilia María Ramos Martín — 2025-08-19

In spite of Julia Ferrer being a significant figure in the Peruvian intelli- gentsia of the mid-century, her work has fallen into oblivion. The aim of this research has been to vindicate Ferrer's work through the study of her only two collections of poems, Imágenes porque sí (1958) and La olvidada lección de las cosas olvidadas (1966). First, Imágenes porque sí is studied in the light of the political and poetic context of the mid-cen- tury and the literary influences present in the book.. We then analyze La olvidada lección de las cosas olvidadas as an example of the consolidation of the author's poetic voice. Special attention is paid to recurring themes in her work, such as time, oblivion and the questioning of an established language. Through this study, we have sought not only to recover the relevance of Julia Ferrer in Peruvian literature, but also to open possible lines of research on her work.

New perspectives on vocalic lengthening in northern italian

Antinea Ravarotto — 2025-08-19

Vowel lengthening is a distinctive feature of Italian that has not yet been widely studied. Although a possible pattern of behavior has been developed for the standard variant of the language, many of the regional variants have not yet been analyzed. In this paper, we have focused on the northern variant, specifically from the Milanese area, to corroborate whether the general rule of the standard language applies to vowel lengthening (Prada, 2010). With this in mind, we have digressed on this phenomenon in the Milanese dialect (Prieto, 2000), considering that, as Ga&owski (2001) points out, it could influence the variant of Italian spoken in this area. The outcome of this experimental study has revealed some interesting contradictions that show significant differences in vowel lengthening in the northern variant compared to standard Italian, as well as a significant difference between speakers in the articulation of some vowels.

Territory and literary imaginary: hermeneutic exploration of the spatiality of Aracataca from the work of Gabriel García Márquez

Samuel Jaimes Botia — 2025-08-20

This paper displays a transdisciplinary look at architectural education, at the intersection between literary, pictorial, and architectural space. This intersection of space representations seeks to understand the spatial and cultural complexity of the Colombian Caribbean through the literature of Gabriel García Márquez. The literary-architectural crossover allows the recreation of imaginaries and the filling of social gaps in the territory left by architecture. The premise of imagining space-time from thinking by doing and doing by thinking is based on Ricoeur's hermeneutic cycle as a pedagogical strategy and on project reading as a central tool of the project process. The results seek to reconstruct the imaginary through the interpretative analysis of the students' exercises, demonstrating that the understanding of space emerges from the creative act of the object and its atmosphere, which integrate in their narrative the fundamental myths and legends of the Caribbean culture. Consequently, the act of projection becomes a dialogical practice that incorporates a more sensitive possible future to human nature, deeply linked to the inhabited environment.

The Linguist as a Hero: Rodolfo Lenz and the Field of Language Studies in Chile

Darío Rojas — 2025-08-20

In this paper, we analyze the process of heroization of the German linguist Rodolfo Lenz (1863-1938) and its relationship with the constitution of the field of language studies in Chile. The analyzed material belongs to a set of biographical discourses dated between 1920 and 1938. As an interpretative framework, we draw on the glotopolitical approach, the studies of the cultural history of science, and the sociology of disciplinary fields. We propose to understand this process as a collective operation that serves to consolidate the field of scientific language studies in Chile, which had been emerging since the last decade of the nineteenth century and which, with the heroization of Lenz, achieves a center or point of reference around which values and positions are established, as well as strategies and interests make sense.

El queísmo en el discurso escrito de estudiantes de la Facultad de Letras y Ciencias Humanas de la Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos

Mirella Robles-Muñoz — 2025-08-20

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Jean Christian Egoavil — 2025-08-20

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Bruno Fernando Nassi Peric — 2025-08-20