Diccionario Espasa filosofía

The poetic birth of Cuba, and of the character of its culture, might be found in a phrase placed in the mouth of an aborigine of the island and included in a book by the Cuban writers Cintio Vitier and Fina Garcia Marruz, who traced and assembled such outbursts of inadvertent poetry. As is well known, the Spaniards arrived in America by way of the Antilles, which have always formed a sort of aquatic frontier of the continent. In addition to a thirst for gold, the peculiar geography of the area awakened another obsession in Christopher Columbus and his followers that was to last for years: to...

The first section, "The critical discourse in Latin America," deals with varied perspectives with the existence of a uniquely American vision. The next section, "Mapping new territories," addresses the question, as inhabitants of this hemisphere, how do we see ourselves. Section three includes topics on issues of self-definition and cultural hybridity as well as the importance of challenging historical and political constructs traditionally used to define the American experience.

Los estudios integrantes de este volumen proponen nuevos métodos o sitúan problemas ya conocidos dentro de novedosos marcos metodológicos ofreciendo una valiosa aportación a los estudios sobre el español de América. Así, se incluyen estudios sobre la teoría del contacto del español con las lenguas amerindias, la orientación perceptiva y evaluativa de los hispanohablantes a ambos lados del Atlántico en materia lingüística, los orígenes y la evaluación del español en américa, así como una revisión de la teoría del andalucismo, análisis sociolingüísticos sobre el Paraguay, ...

The proceedings assemble some 240 papers covering eight sections: 1. phonetics and phonology, 2. morphology, 3. syntax, 4. lexical semantics, 5. editing and textual criticism, 6, rhetoric, poetics and literary theory, 7. applied linguistics, 8. history of linguistics. In addition, they include four plenary lectures and two round table discussions. The papers provide a panorama view of old and new concerns in Romance studies illustrated from various theoretical perspectives and providing an example of what this sector has to contribute to the development of linguistics and literary studies in...