La connotación en la invención léxica cadia cuento «La Cadia» de Elisa Chimenti

Abstract

This article analyses, from the perspective of lexicological research proposed by Georges Matoré (1948), the witness-word included in the title of the short story «La Cadia». The starting hypothesis is that the linguistic sign cadia, as a lexical invention derived from the Arabic legal term and the keyword qāḍin (qadi), has a communicative function of epigraph, typical of the discursive superstructure of the medieval Arabic and Islamic khabar that the author applies, as a traditional vehicle for transmitting the legitimizing role of Islam. We conclude by verifying the hypothesis that cadia connotes the institutionalization of male authority in Islam, at the expense of the inferior status of women