RT info:eu-repo/semantics/article T1 Leopoldo Alas, Clarín: discurso de la ciencia y lengua literaria A1 Rodríguez Marín, Rafael A2 Ediciones Universidad de Valladolid K1 Filología hispánica AB The use of scientific language in Leopoldo Alas’ work is displayed as successive formulations on a scale based on their utility within the narration: it helps establish the setting of a story by being casually inserted into the narrator’s discourse; it is used as a tool to verbally describe some of the characters, employing diatechnic variation to build the literary idiolects of scientists, particularly doctors; and lastly, it serves as a way of conveying the writer’s sense of humour. This humorous approach often carries a critical intention, which in Clarin’s case is not to vilify the creation or use of technical neologisms, but their unnecessary use or their trend-created abuse. SN 0213-053X YR 2014 FD 2014 LK http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/22005 UL http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/22005 LA spa NO Anuario de lingüística hispánica, 2014, N.30, pags.165-183 DS UVaDOC RD 25-abr-2024