El niño que aprendió a volar

The Manual presents the state of the art of the research about discourse and communication within the Romance languages. It offers introductory articles which explain in a simple and clear way the current research topics of a broad variety of disciplines like Linguistics, Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis, Communication Theory, Text Linguistics and Philology. The authors of the Manual collectively explain complex theoretical problems concerning communication and discourse, and texts as its products. The contrastive descriptions contain examples in different Romance languages which show the...

La Historia de España está plagada de sucesos y acontecimientos que han dejado una amplia huella, muchos de ellos están relacionados con los asuntos más turbios y oscuros a los que se pueden enfrentar el Hombre. Le proponemos hacer un recorrido a lo más atroz del ser humano, a los actos más infames que es capaz la mente (y la acción) humana. Un camino aterrador por algunos de los pasajes más terribles de la crónica negra –pero negra negra- de este país. Desde el indescifrable “Caso de Los Galindos”, el “Crimen de Cuenca”, el asesinato triple de “Las niñas de...

"Publication accompanied the exhibition 'Vicente Rojo: Cuarenta Años de Diseño Gráfico.' Includes accolades by some of his friends such as José Luis Cuevas, recognizing Rojo's contribution to graphic design in Mexico, an activity at which he excelled but is less known for than his painting. Generously illustrated in color"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

This empirical study investigates the existence of a hypothetical regional standard for Spanish in Catalonia based on a corpus made up of transcripts of some 70 hours of recorded interview material. The determining factors in the development of linguistic norms are analyzed in terms of the frequency of usage and the formal and informal acceptability of some 80 linguistic phenomena. The qualitative and quantitative analyses are supplemented by a study of the metalinguistic information and the linguistic attitudes identifiable in the interviews.