La presente investigación es un estudio de carácter sincrónico que tiene como tema el insulto, entendido éste como la acción de insultar y la palabra o acto con que se insulta. Así, el insulto es analizado a partir de sus contextos de uso y delimitado al tipo de insulto en el que participa el léxico socialmente sancionado, lingüísticamente marcado como ofensivo, vulgar y grosero, observando para ello dos comunidades de habla del español: la mexicana y la peninsular. Son dos los ejes metodológicos de este trabajo, la idea del insulto como un fenómeno lingüístico y comunicativo, y la del insulto como un fenómeno de la cognición colectiva e individual.Los resultados de la investigación aportan información específica sobre la estructura, los micro-procesos de interpretación, tipos de textos asociados a diferentes situaciones de realización del insulto, datos sobre procesos de introspección y retrospección proporcionados por informantes de la variedad mexicana y peninsular, respectivamente. Y el trabajo concluye con la propuesta de ALI, Aplicación lexicográfica de representación del insulto para las variedades de nuestro estudio. / The thesis EL INSULTO: ESTUDIO PRAGMÁTICO - TEXTUAL Y REPRESENTACIÓN LEXICOGRÁFICA is a work framed in the lexicology, lexicography, pragmatics and cognitive linguistics, conceived as an applied linguistics subjects. It focus is the study of the Insult, understanding this notion like the word and the action of insulting. Assuming that the insult is a phenomenon that could be described like a linguistic and a communicative fact and like a social and individual cognition event, we have formulated three objectives: the first, to describe the elements that characterise the insult; the second, to investigate three objects of study about the insult- a linguistics, a pragmatic-textual and a cognitive object; and the third, to design one lexicography application on the theme of the insult.To carry out this dissertation, we have analyzed one corpus integrated by 25 words with social marks offensive, vulgar; considered by itself as insults. We have worked with two varieties of spanish language: the mexican and the peninsular and have constructing two corpus: one lexicography corpus, COLEXI and other textual corpus, el CREAI, based on the CREA of the RAE.The results reveal information about the structure, microprocess of interpretation, different text typologies, introspective and retrospective cognitive elements of the insult. We discussed the insult like a rational and irrational phenomenon of the communication; like the animal side of the civilisation.

I have been for years now teaching homiletical theories and methods to students at World Mission University in Los Angeles, California. I have been aware of certain problems in the theory and practice of preaching prevailing in the Korean church. One of the most critical issues is that Korean preaching largely consists of the topical-deductive method. Another is that a hierarchical structure enforces the gap between the preacher and the congregation. The study explores, within the framework of the theologian Johannes van der Ven’s empirical-theological research program, text-guided preaching, based on the American homiletician Thomas G. Long’s theory that the sermon should regenerate the impact of the biblical text, in the context of the Korean church and its tradition of preaching. The study looks at the history and characteristics of Korean preaching (Chapter 2) and also at the emergence, characteristics, and styles of new American preaching (Chapter 3). The empirical component of the study deals with a case study involving a preaching workshop for theological students as an illustration of the reception by Korean preachers of the proposed theory for preaching (Chapter 5). My proposal is that text-guided preaching (described in Chapter 4) will benefit those Korean preachers and students willing a homiletical exploration. The basic premise of this model of preaching is that a text seeks to impact its reader; or, to use Paul Ricoeur’s words, confronts its readers with a particular world of understanding; or, from the standpoint of speech-act theory, performs multiple illocutionary acts. Text-guided preaching as it is presented in this study incorporates the notion of application, a notion introduced to hermeneutics by Hans-Georg Gadamer that says that understanding a text always aims at some practical application. Homiletically refined by H. J. C. Pieterse and C. J. A. Vos, it means that the preacher’s understanding of a biblical text is partly determined by the particular, historically contingent situation of the congregation. This study adopts an empirical-theological approach to practical theology. As a part of the theological induction phase of the empirical-theological cycle, a preaching workshop was conducted with eight student-participants. The case study produced some significant results. The clearest finding has to do with the task of interpreting the life situation of the congregation. It leads to the conclusion that theological education at World Mission University has to be modified to include trainings that would produce competent interpreters of the cultural context of Christian life. / Thesis (PhD (Practical Theology))--University of Pretoria, 2008. / Practical Theology / PhD / unrestricted

Like many denominations in the secularized West, the Canadian Baptists of Ontario and Quebec have been engaged in debates regarding sexuality and marriage over the past decade. As these debates have developed, it has become increasingly clear that at their center are differences in biblical interpretive practice. Yet it is my experience that, by and large, many evangelicals, particularly in the Canadian Baptist context, do not know how to discuss their interpretive practice. In order to work through difficult topics, such as the one mentioned above, Christians need to develop the ability to reflect both on how they are interpreting Scripture and how they see others interpreting Scripture, so that they can coherently and constructively discuss their interpretations with others with whom they disagree. In this dissertation, I utilize a hermeneutic theory, metamodern cultural theory, and a proposed revision of an integrative theological method, the Wesleyan Quadrilateral, to develop a a paradigm for observing and describing differences in biblical interpretive practice. Using the aforementioned debates concerning sexuality and marriage as an illustrative example, the project reveals that metamodern interpretations of scripture are complex and tension-filled, and that amidst this complexity, the prioritization (or lack thereof) of theological reflection sources prompts particular interpretive applications. When they are able to perceive the multivalent nature of interpretation, readers are better equipped through this work to think carefully and critically about how they come to their interpretive conclusions and how those conclusions draw them towards faithful living in Christ via situational application of the biblical text.