Concept in Definition ABC
Miscellanea / / July 04, 2021
By Florencia Ucha, in Jul. 2010
Depending on the context in which the word is used neutral will present different references.
Does not take sides for something
When someone, an individual, a person is said to be neutral, what is being meant is that is indifferent, does not take sides in any aspect or question on which he is consulted or in which he has to intervene. Especially at the urging of the politics is that the aforementioned sense is usually used. "The elections were dominated by neutrals."
The concept has traditionally been used in politics, at the behest of armed conflicts, to refer to the non-intervention posture that a nation decides to take on in the face of that armed struggle.
For example, the Argentine Republic maintained a neutral position in the face of the First World War. In those years, radicalism ruled the country with the leadership of HipĆ³lito Irigoyen, who decided to remain neutral in the face of the war.
Uses in chemistry, electricity, biology, and grammar
On the other hand,
in chemistry, something is said to be neutral when it has a PH equal to 7, it is neither acidic nor basic.On electricity when the electric charge it is net, that is, neither positive nor negative it is called neutral charge.
On the other hand, when a species lacks or has not developed a sexual apparatus it will be classified as neutral, for example the so-called worker bees.
Also, in the field of Grammar the word is used with recurrence to refer to that which is neither male nor femalebut it is different from both.
Artificial language created for artistic productions and media
Meanwhile, in recent years the word neutral has become quite popular as a result of the use that is given to refer to model of language typical of certain communication and entertainment media, such as international press agencies, dubbing studios, soap opera productions, among others, and that they operate in a wide geographic area and that then, for this reason, choose those forms of semantic lexicon that are more widespread in all that territory, as well as diction models, such as pronunciation standards, with the aim of suppressing the territorial identification that could occur with a specific country if those most recurring words were used and typical of that one.
Castilian or neutral Spanish is an artificial class, created, within the Spanish language, through the which is intended to remove a specific location from the language, extending it to the largest number of population Spanish-speaking.
With the use of the neutral, what is done is to remove from an entertainment product or communication medium all kinds of link with a specific country or geographical area so that it can be accepted and understood by the entire community of speaks Spanish.
This practice is widely used today in soap operas, newscasts, among other content, which are marketed throughout Latin America.
What is avoided through the use of the neutral is that the public can reject the content because they consider it highly linked or proper to a specific nation.
Business and critical benefits
This resource began to be implemented precisely as a consequence of the rejection that some publics evidenced in relation to very good entertainment products but which had a great idiomatic link with the country of source.
On the other hand, the use of the neutral has a very clear intention of making the entertainment market more profitable Spanish-speaking, thus avoiding the expense of making adaptations of the product so that they can be understood and accepted in different countries.
Now, beyond the commercial benefits that the neutral generates in the entertainment world, we must say that it has not lacked criticism.
Many attribute great artificiality, impoverishment of the language and the loss of identity cultural as the influence of Mexican speech prevails, since it is precisely characterized by the use of the Mexican standard as a consequence of the greater territorial and popular extension that provides.
And also the word is frequently used when talking about colors, specifically to refer to the white, gray and black colors. In terms of the painting, neutral the result of mixing exact amounts of the primary colors is called.
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