Constandina y las telarañas

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Western literary...

Research on Spanish in the United States is intended for use in courses, as well as by scholars and researchers interested in the area. The 29 original articles are organized into sections on interpreting; historical perspectives; borrowings of words and phrases; codeswitching, narratives, and discourse; sociolinguistics and pragmatics; phonology, morphology, and syntax; and language attitudes and planning. Many of the chapters focus on regional aspects of Spanish in the US, ranging from sociolinguistic issues among Dominicans in New York and Cubans in Miami to the adoption and adaptation of...

Pocas veces los temas de nuestra poblaci n ind gena han sido tratados en forma tan excelente como bajo la pluma de Francisco Rojas Gonz lez (1903-1951) quien ofrece, con certera visi n y oficio literario, historias del M xico ntimo que revelan los ricos aspectos de las culturas ind genas en un juego de contradicciones de alto contraste que nosotros, como lectores, reconocemos como parte de nuestra geograf a emocional.

En esta obra se abarcan las más diversas áreas significativas en el entorno diario en el que comúnmente pueden desenvolverse los hablantes. Se han analizado distintos campos léxicos con el fin de ofrecer un estudio lo más amplio posible sobre el tema.