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Lexicological analysis of the terms macho and machismo

machismo. 1. m. Actitud de prepotencia de los varones respecto de las mujeres. –DRAE Lexicology is a speciality in linguistics dealing with the study of the lexicon. ... The Diccionario de la lengua española de la Real Academia Española or DRAE is the most authoritative dictionary of Castilian Spanish. ...

Machismo is defined by the Diccionario de la Real Academia Española (21st edition) as "an arrogant (prepotente) attitude by men towards women." El Pequeño Larousse Ilustrado 2000 defines it as an "an attitude that considers the masculine sex to be superior to the feminine." Simon & Schuster's International Spanish Dictionary Second Edition offers the following interpretation: "machismo, male chauvinism; exaltation of masculinity, he-manship." The University of Chicago Spanish-English Dictionary (fourth edition) translates machismo as: "the quality of being a male; proven daring; male chauvinism." The New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary (SOED) (1993 edition) defines it as: "The quality of being macho; male virility, masculine pride; a show of this." The American Heritage Dictionary's (AHD) fourth edition definition is more elaborate: The Diccionario de la lengua española de la Real Academia Española or DRAE is the most authoritative dictionary of Castilian Spanish. ... Le Petit Larousse is a french-language reference book appearing first in 1905 and being published in a 100th anniversary edition in 2005. ... Male chauvinism is the term for the belief that males are superior to females. ... The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view. ... The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, often abbreviated to SOED, is a scaled-down version of the Oxford English Dictionary. ... Virility is part of the traditional idealized male gender role. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (AHD) is a dictionary of American English published by Boston publisher Houghton-Mifflin, the first edition of which appeared in 1969. ...

1. A strong or exaggerated sense of masculinity stressing attributes such as physical courage, virility, domination of women, and aggressiveness. 2. An exaggerated sense of strength or toughness. Fortitudo, by Sandro Botticelli Courage, also known as fortitude, is the ability to confront fear, pain, danger, uncertainty or intimidation. ... Domination is a supreme or preeminate control, rule, or governing; plural dominion. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards and make it easier to understand, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

Encarta Webster's Dictionary gives the same overall meaning as do the SOED and AHD [1], however, it is–among the dictionaries consulted–unique in attributing to machismo a "Mid-20th century" "Mexican Spanish" origin. The 100 million-word Corpus del Español corroborates Encarta's chronology but gives no clear indication of machismo's original linguistic provenance[2]. Folklorist Miguel Velasco Valdés's Repertorio de voces populares en México (1967) defines machismo and macho respectively as: The Encarta Websters Dictionary 2004 is the second edition of the Encarta World English Dictionary, originally published in 1999, Ann Soukhanov, editor. ... Mexican Spanish is the form of the Spanish language spoken in Mexico by over 90% of the population. ... Pictoral chronology of intelligence, Central Intelligence Agency Chronology is the science of locating events in time. ... Broadly conceived, linguistics is the study of human language, and a linguist is someone who engages in this study. ... Folkloristics is the formal academic study of folklore and mythology. ... Mexico or, in Spanish, México, is: Mexico, a federal republic in North America Mexico City, that countrys capital city Mexican Federal District, the federal district containing that capital city Estado de México (State of Mexico), one of that republics 31 constituent states Mexico is also the... 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar (the link is to a full 1967 calendar). ...

Alarde de hombría, desplante de valor a veces fingido.

A display of manliness, a brave posture at times [put on] as a bluff.

Formal, valeroso, con entereza; ser muy macho consiste en afrontar virilmente todas las contingencias.

Correct, courageous, [to act] with uprightness; to be muy macho means confronting danger with manly courage.

It will be noted that Valdés's definitions diverge in important ways from the general lexicographical pattern presented so far, where in the other examples the word machismo has a(n) (at least partially) negative connotation, in Valdés the sense is entirely positive, even chivalrous, the only negative note being that sounded by the "false" machismo of the bluffer, the braggadocio (cf Paredes - 1971). Lexicography is either of two things Practical lexicography is the art or craft of writing dictionaries. ... For the more specialised meaning of Connotation in semiotics, see connotation (semiotics). ... Woman under the Safeguard of Knighthood, allegorical Scene. ... Look up Cf. ... 1971 (MCMLXXI) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1971 calendar). ...

(Valdés does not say how, where, or why such meanings developed, though he does indicate that all the words in the compendium are in "uso común y corriente en el medio mexicano" ["common and widespread use in Mexican society"]). A compendium is a concise yet comprehensive compilation of a body of knowledge. ...

Unlike the Repertorio, the Diccionario del español usual en México (1996 edition)[3] does conform to the previous definitional pattern, however, the extensive space and emphasis it gives to the "virilist" sense of the root macho has no parallel in any of the works so far cited, further strenghtening the link between the word machismo and (a certain) Mexican sociolinguistic culture: The root is the primary lexical unit of a word, which carries the most significant aspects of semantic content and cannot be reduced into smaller constituents. ... Sociolinguistics is the study of the effect of any and all aspects of society, including cultural norms, expectations, and context, on the way language is used. ... The word culture, from the Latin colo, -ere, with its root meaning to cultivate, generally refers to patterns of human activity and the symbolic structures that give such activity significance. ...

...2 Hombre que considera al sexo masculino como naturalmente superior al femenino, exalta las características tradicionalmente atribuidas a los hombres y pretende imponerse y dominar a las mujeres o demostrar su fuerza, su virilidad, etc, ante ellas u otros hombres: macho mexicano, «¡Aguántese como los machos!» 3 Que es valiente, fuerte o tiene alguna de las características que tradicionalmente se atribuyen a los hombres: «¡Yo soy muy macho, hijos de la chingada!», una mujer muy macha 4 A lo macho (Coloq) Sin engaños ni mentiras, con valentía: «-¿Me lo dice usted a lo macho?» 5 Hombre, especialmente cuando se quiere destacar su sexualidad: «Regresó convertido en un macho alto y fuerte»...[4]

...2 A man who considers the masculine sex as naturally superior to the feminine, glorifies those traits traditionally ascribed to men and seeks to control and dominate women or to demonstrate his strength, virility, etc., to them [ellas] and to other men: Mexican macho, "Take it like the machos!" 3 Someone who is brave, strong or demonstrates some of the traits traditionally ascribed to men: "I am very macho, sons of the chingada!", a very macha woman 4 A lo macho [in a macho manner] (coloq.) without guile or trickery, with bravery: "Are you telling it to me a lo macho?" 5 A man, specially when seeking to emphasize his sexuality: "He came back made a macho tall and strong"... Spanish profanity is the assortment of words considered blasphemous or sacrilegious in the Spanish language. ...

Octavio Paz's formulation of Mexican machismo: El Gran Chingón

The Mexican poet and essayist Octavio Paz (1914-1998) in his fundamentally influential book-length essay El Laberinto de la Soledad[5] (1950), makes the following characterizations about the Mexican macho: Mexican literature plays an important role in Mexican culture. ... Octavio Paz Nobel Prize photo Octavio Paz Lozano (March 31, 1914 – April 19, 1998) was a Mexican writer, poet, and diplomat, and the winner of the 1990 Nobel Prize in Literature. ... 1914 (MCMXIV) was a common year starting on Thursday. ... 1950 (MCML) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ...

El chingón es el macho, el que abre. La chingada, la hembra, la pasividad pura, inerme ante el exterior. La relación entre ambos es violenta, determinada por el poder cínico del primero y la impotencia de la otra. La idea de violación rige oscuramente todos los significados. (FCE[6] 1975 edition - pg. 85).

The chingón is the macho, the one who opens. The chingada, [is] the female, pure passivity, defenseless against what is outside [herself]. The relationship between the two is violent, [it is] defined/determined [determinada] by the cynical power of the first and the helplessness [impotencia] of the other. A sense of rape/violation [violación] holds secret sway [rige oscuramente] over all the(se) meanings. Chingon (Spanish for badass) is a Mexican rock band started by director Robert Rodríguez to record songs for his 2003 film Once Upon a Time in Mexico. ...

El "macho" es el Gran Chingón. Una palabra resume la agresividad, impasibilidad, invulnerabilidad, uso descarnado de la violencia...del "macho": poder. La fuerza, pero desligada de toda noción de orden: el poder arbitrario, la voluntad sin freno y sin cauce. (Ibid - pg. 89). Ibid (Latin, short for ibidem, the same place) is the term used to provide an endnote or footnote citation or reference for a source that was cited in the last endnote or footnote. ...

The macho is the Gran Chingón. One word summarizes the aggressivity, impassivity, invulnerability, the raw [descarnado] violence...of the macho: power. Force, but [one] loosed [desligada] from all notions of order: arbitrary power, will without form [sin cauce] or limit [sin freno].

...el atributo esencial del "macho", la fuerza, se manifiesta...como la capacidad de herir, rajar, aniquilar, humillar. Náda mas natural...que su indiferencia frente a la prole que engendra...Es el poder, aislado en su misma potencia, sin relación ni compromiso con el mundo exterior. Es la incomunicación pura, la soledad que se devora a sí misma y devora lo que toca...Es el extraño. (Ibid - pg. 90).

...the essential quality of the macho, force/strength [fuerza], manifests itself...as the ability to hurt, rip, destroy, humiliate. Nothing is more natural...than his indifference towards the progeny [prole] he sires [engendra]...He is power, isolated in its potency, neither connected to nor compromised by the outside world. He is pure incommunicability, the solitude that devores itself and all that it touches...He is the outsider/stranger [extraño]. The proletariat (from Latin proles, offspring) is a term used to identify a lower social class; a member of such a class is called a proletarian. ...

Es imposible no advertir la semejanza que guarda la figura del "macho" con la del conquistador español. (Ibid - pg. 90).

It is impossible not to notice the latent similarities between the figure of the macho and the Spanish conquistador. Conquistador (Spanish: []) (meaning Conqueror in the Spanish language) is the term used to refer to the soldiers, explorers, and adventurers who brought much of the Americas and Asia Pacific under Spanish colonial rule between the 15th and 17th centuries, starting with the 1492 settlement established in modern-day Cuba by...

La figura del padre se bifurca en la dualidad de patriarca y de macho. El macho es el hombre terrible, el chingón, el padre...que ha abandonado mujer e hijos. La imagen de la autoridad mexicana se inspira en estos dos extremos: el Señor Presidente y el Caudillo. (Ibid - pg. 330).

The figure of the father divides into the duality of the patriarca and the macho. The macho is a man to be feared [el hombre terrible], the chingón, the father...who has abandoned his wife and children. The image/notion [imagen] of Mexican authority is modeled [se inspira] on these two extremes: the Señor Presidente and the Caudillo. The Autumn of the Patriarch (original Spanish title: El Otoño del Patriarca) is a novel written by Gabriel García Márquez in 1975. ... Mr. ... Caudillo is a Spanish (caudilho in Portuguese) word designating a political-military leader at the head of an authoritative power. ...

Tejano scholar Américo Paredes (1915-1999), in a scholarly article entitled "The United States, Mexico, and Machismo" (1967,1971[7]), argues that during the nationalist 1940s the vulgar term machismo became the de facto word for describing a set of restored and redefined patriarchal assumptions by and about Mexicans. Using both the traditional corrido and more recent Mexican popular art forms to measure the phenomenon of lexical change, Paredes concludes that up until the 1930s a group of alternately-rooted words (e.g. bravo, hombre, hombría, hombre de verdad, valentía, valeroso, valiente) was still commonly used to describe a web of masculine attitudes and behaviors that (mutatis mutandis) would increasingly be described as (or qualified with) macho and machismo by Mexicans, and subsequently by other North American hispanophones and allophones alike[8]. Paredes gives as a key reason for this radical shift in nomenclature the brutal(izing) masculine rivalries enacted during the Mexican Revolution, but leaves at least partially unresolved (from the perspective of this article) the near simultaneous neologenesis of the acceptation across other, more distant parts of the hispanophone and allophone worlds (cf Corpus del Español[9]). Much confusion exists regarding the identity of those who are called Tejanos. A Tejano today is classified as a Mexican Texan or a Texan of Mexican heritage. While this classification would correctly identify the new Tejanos; those people from Texas whose ancestors came from Mexico beginning in the period of... The corrido is a popular narrative song and poetry form of the mestizo Mexican cultural area (which includes the Southern states of USA, taken from Mexican sovereignship in the mid to late 19th. ... 1915 (MCMXV) was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... Academic publishing describes a system of publishing that is necessary in order for academic scholars to review work and make it available for a wider audience. ... 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar (the link is to a full 1967 calendar). ... Nationalism is an ideology that creates and sustains a nation as a concept of a common identity for groups of humans. ... // Events and trends World War II was a truly global conflict with many facets: immense human suffering, fierce indoctrination, and the use of new, extremely devastating weapons such as the atomic bomb. ... The term vulgar originally meant of the common people, from the Latin vulgus. ... The corrido is a popular narrative song and poetry form of the mestizo Mexican cultural area (which includes the Southern states of USA, taken from Mexican sovereignship in the mid to late 19th. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... In Latin, mutatis mutandis means upon changing what needs to be changed, where what needs to be changed is usually implied by a prior statement assumed to be understood by the reader. ... Political highlights of North America North America is the third largest continent in area and the fourth ranked in population. ... A hispanophone is a speaker of the Spanish language. ... Allophone can have several meanings: In phonetics, Allophone (phonetics) is a physical event, as a part of phoneme construction. ... Radical is derived from the Latin word radix, which means root. In various fields of endeavor, it can mean: Sciences in chemistry, either an atom or molecule with at least one unpaired electron, or a group of atoms, charged or uncharged, that act as a single entity in reaction. ... Nomenclature is a system of naming and categorizing objects in a given category. ... A graphical timeline is available here: Timeline of the Mexican Revolution Many portions of this article are translations of excerpts from the article Revolución Mexicana in the Spanish Wikipedia. ... A neologism is a word, term, or phrase which has been recently created (coined) — often to apply to new concepts, or to reshape older terms in newer language form. ...

When removed from a specifically Hispanic cultural context machismo (anglicizations: machist, machoism) becomes ideologically para-synonymous with "(male) braggardism," "male chauvinism," "cult of masculinity," "male dominance," "male prejudice," "male supremacism," "(super)phallicism," and "sexual fascism;" in academia it has at times been subsumed within certain post-structuralist and radical feminist concepts, such as "androcentrism," "androcracy," "patriarchy," "phallocracy," "phallocentrism," as well as incorporated into historiological and materialist critiques of capitalist society[10]. The term "machismo syndrome," first used by anthropologist Andre Simic in his study of the Yugoslavian peasantry (Simic - 1969), has at times been applied in describing a hierarchical social-sexual relationship of sado-masochistic interdependence between persons of any gender[11](cf Paz - 1950[12]; Fromm, Maccoby - 1970[13]; Prieur - 1998[14]). 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El Hombre versus El Macho: On the Names of Sancho and his Mule

In a more culture-specific context the concept acquires significant complexity and subtlety. The term machismo is normally not colloquially used in Spanish other than in a self-referential way, the term itself being the topic. This is because the word is extraneous to the traditional lexical repertoire Spanish-speakers have historically relied on when discussing concepts relating to masculinity and femininity. The seminal Tesoro de la Lengua Castellana o Española’s (Madrid, 1611) entry for macho is concerned principally with forming sexo-lexical distinctions relevant to animal husbandry, agriculture and herbology; the article does mention that men can be considered macho, but the sense is limited to the practical and technistic, consisting of physical and temperamental attributes that, by simply being, place no ontological restrictions (or demands) on muliebrity: A colloquialism is an expression not used in formal speech or writing. ... A self-reference occurs when an object refers to itself. ... Look up lexicon in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... The Venus symbol, symbol of femininity Femininity comprises the physical and mental attributes associated with the female sex. ... A seminal work [semen = seed (from the Latin seminalis)] is a work from which other works come--it is an engendering work which is so important in its ideas or technique that other people take these up and create new works too. ... Look up Vernacular in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Location Location of Madrid in Europe Coordinates : 40° 23’N , 3°43′0″W Time Zone : CET (GMT +1) - summer: CEST (GMT +2) General information Native name Villa de Madrid (Spanish) Spanish name Villa de Madrid Founded 9th century Postal code 28001-28080 Area code 34 (Spain) + 91 (Villa de... Events June 23 - Henry Hudsons crew maroons him, his son and 7 others in a boat November 1 - At Whitehall Palace in London, William Shakespeares romantic comedy The Tempest is presented for the first time. ... In a draw in a mountainous region, a shepherd guides a flock of about 20 sheep amidst scrub and olive trees. ... Herbology is the art of combining medicinal herbs. ... As distinguished from episteme, the Greek word techne (literally: craftsmanship) is often translated as craft or art. ... In philosophy, ontology (from the Greek , genitive : of being (part. ... Muliebrity is the quality of being a woman. ...

Todo lo que es fuerte llamamos macho, como hombre macho y machucho. Vino macho, el vino fuerte.[15]

Everything that is strong we call macho, like macho man and machucho [calm, level-headed; a mature person][16]. Macho wine, strong wine

Thus there is nothing in the Tesoro’s definition to suggest the term then held the kind of overt gender-discriminatory, mysogynist, or male-supremacist connotations it does today. Moreover, the example of machucho indicates that it was not only possible in 17th century Spain for an hombre macho to be prudent, judicious, and circumspect, it was seen as natural and expected; such a conception of macho-ness hardly fits the current stereotype of the "testosterone-drunk" "macho man," if anything, it contradicts and works antonymically against it. Gender discriminaton is discrimination based on gender. ... Misogyny is an exaggerated aversion towards women. ... (16th century - 17th century - 18th century - more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 17th century was that century which lasted from 1601-1700. ... Stereotypes are ideas held by some individuals about members of particular groups, based solely on membership in that group. ... Testosterone is a steroid hormone from the androgen group. ... Antonyms, from the Greek anti (against) and onoma (name) are word pairs that are opposite in meaning, such as hot and cold, fat and thin, and up and down. ...

Although, as has been indicated, the word machismo itself did not exist in 17th century Spain the belief structures and behavioral patterns defined by it did, and to the extent they were recognized by society as requiring definition and formal expression they were given semantic coherence and lexical form; the results of such a process are often referred to as a group's "linguistic culture,"[17] the linguistic culture that gave rise to the term machismo remains largely intact in much of the hispanophone world. Wiktionary has related dictionary definitions, such as: belief Belief is usually defined as a conviction to the truth of a proposition. ... Behavior or behaviour (see spelling differences) refers to the actions or reactions of an object or organism, usually in relation to the environment. ... Human relationships within an ethnically diverse society. ...

Machismo around the world

Machismo, of course is not only a feature of Hispanic culture. The Hispanic world Hispanic (Spanish Hispano, from Latin Hispānus, adjective from Hispānia, Iberian Peninsula) is a term denoting a derivation from Spain, its people and culture. ...

Depending on the country, machistas are viewed with disdain. In Mexico, many men consider it an honor to be called a machista. The Mexican/Dominican actor Andrés García has long been pointed to as a typical example of the Mexican machista man. In Peru, talk show host Laura Bozzo (Laura en América) spends a good number of her shows exposing machista men and teaching them a lesson. This article needs copyediting (checking for proper English spelling, grammar, usage, tone, style, and voice). ... Laura Bozzo Dr. Laura Bozzo Rotondo (born 1951) is a Peruvian television talk show host of Italian descent who has become famous as a chat show hostess and for the feminist social views she expresses on her shows. ...

In many cultures, from Latin America to Korea to countries of the Muslim world, machismo is acceptable and even expected. In 2004, the Spanish government and Spanish media began to take on the entire concept of machismo, linking it directly to a spate of notorious domestic violence crimes perpetrated by men against their own wives or female companions. Latin America consists of the countries of South America and some of North America (including Central America and some the islands of the Caribbean) whose inhabitants mostly speak Romance languages, although Native American languages are also spoken. ... Korea (Korean: (조선 or 한국, see below) is a geographic area, civilization, and former state situated on the Korean Peninsula in East Asia. ... A Muslim (Arabic: مسلم, Turkish: Müslüman, Persian and Urdu: مسلمان, Bosnian: Musliman) is an adherent of Islam. ... It has been suggested that Domestic violence against men be merged into this article or section. ...

In American literature, a memorable example of machismo comes from Tennessee Williams' character Stanley Kowalski, the egotistical brother-in-law in A Streetcar Named Desire. In the play (and in the motion picture), Stanley epitomises the hyper-masculine alpha male, socially and physically dominating and imposing his will upon his wife and her sister, Blanche Dubois. Bound up with Stanley's aggressive and occasionally misogynist views is a strong sense of pride and honor which leads to his hatred of Blanche. Tennessee Williams, courtesy of Masters of Photography [2] Thomas Williams III (March 26, 1911–February 25, 1983), better known by the pen name Tennessee Williams, was a major American playwright and one of the prominent playwrights of the twentieth century. ... Marlon Brando as Stanley Kowalski in the film version of A Streetcar Named Desire (1951), with Vivien Leigh as Blanche DuBois Stanley Kowalski is a character in Tennessee Williamss play A Streetcar Named Desire. ... A Streetcar Named Desire is a famous American play written by Tennessee Williams. ... An alpha male or alpha female is the individual in the community to whom the others follow and defer. ... Vivien Leigh as Blanche DuBois in the film version of A Streetcar Named Desire (1951), with Marlon Brando as Stanley Kowalski Blanche DuBois is the principal character in Tennessee Williams play A Streetcar Named Desire. ... Misogyny is an exaggerated pathological aversion towards women. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Honor (or honor) comprises the reputation, self-perception or moral identity of an individual or of a group. ...

See also

• Culture of Mexico – Family
• Black Legend, a set of negative memes about Spain
• Latin lover
• Don Juan, the Spanish archetype of the seducer
• Carmen, the Spanish archetype of the passionate woman
• Marianismo
• Testosterone poisoning