Hispanicism

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His·pa·nism

(hĭs′pə-nĭz′əm) or His·pan·i·cism (hĭ-spăn′ĭ-sĭz′əm)

1. Esteem for or promotion of Spanish culture or traditions.

2. A Spanish word, phrase, or linguistic feature occurring in another language.

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Hispanicism

(hɪˈspænɪˌsɪzəm)

(Languages) a word or expression borrowed from Spanish or modelled on the form of a Spanish word or expression

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Hispanicism

a Spanish word or expression that often appears in another language, as bodega.

hispanicism

[hɪsˈpænɪsɪzəm] N → hispanismo m

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By delineating and carefully parsing out several discursive threads that are frequently bundled together, this text challenges a literature that too often casts Haiti at the epicenter of Dominican national identity, and reduces hispanicism to racism.

April J. Mayes: The Mulatto Republic: Class, Race, and Dominican National Identity

We added the Hispanicism and Americanism subscales together, resulting in a biculturalism score that ranged from cultural marginality (lowest scores) to monoculturalism to biculturalism (highest scores).The second measure was the respondent's duration of residence in the United States.

Hopelessness, family stress, and depression among Mexican-heritage mothers in the Southwest

We measured cultural orientation with the "Americanism" and "Hispanicism" subscales from The Behavioral Acculturation Scale (25).

Comportamientos de riesgo de infeccion por el VIH en hombres latinoamericanos y caribenos que tienen sexo con hombres en Miami, Florida, EUA

Again, the tropes employed to refuse Haitian imperialism rested on dichotomic opposition: "civilization" versus "barbarism," "Hispanicism" versus "negritude," which was nothing less than an ordering principle consisting in essentializing Spanish civilization as such.

Pedro L. San Miguel. The Imagined Island. History, Identity & Utopia in Hispaniola

In describing literary tradition in Latin America, Vargas Llosa writes that both Hispanicism and Indigenism have produced great works of fiction, but that both are guilty of a certain reductionism.

The packaging of contemporary Latin American literature: "La Generacion del Crack" and "McOndo"

L'heure espagnole is presented via new considerations of nineteenth-century hispanicism, time, and reality, Ravel's unique musical prosody (via Musorgsky), and his remarkable navigations of musical humour.