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Don Quixote is a rich source of metaphoric statements, a true wealth of wisdom that brings the reader to the Spanish Golden Age, reminding us the meaning of long-lost customs or alluding to some historic circumstances. Many of them persist today among us, turned into proverbial [...]

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We define a kind of nominal phrases which have incapsulation functions in discourse from a formal, semantic and informative approach. These nominal phrases contain some anaphoric element and they reify and reconceptualise previous text chunks which became informative point of anchorage [...]

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Spanish Golden Age Culture is an age of secrets and secrecy. Among its playwrights, Pedro Calderón de la Barca shows the most complex comprehension of this subject. During the entirety of his career he refers to it in numerous comedies, creates metaphors concerning different aspects [...]

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This paper analyses the metaphorical language of Cigarrales de Toledo, emphasizing its variety and the presence of saturated semantic fields (economic, legal, medical, funeral, etc.) in unexpected contexts and often associated to the same characters. It evidences an intentional descriptive [...]