La sombra del comandante

La democracia en América Latina está en continua transformación, los ciudadanos han modificado sus preferencias electorales ante el descrédito de los políticos y ante la crisis de representación que se vive. La mayoría de los países en este lado del continente americano, atraviesan una situación de riesgo que amenaza al pluralismo democrático y a las instituciones; ante un presidencialismo exacerbado que se construyó en los últimos años. Asimismo, el populismo como una característica de los nuevos gobiernos electos, abre la discusión sobre ¿Hacia dónde va la democracia?....

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.

For the first time in the history of research both in Spanish and German linguistics, this book undertakes a comparative study ofthe lexical structures commonly understood as ‘word families’ and the theoretical and methodological basesof their analysis.Using the word families derived from dec(ir) and sag(en) as a main reference point, thestudy discusses differenttheoretical approaches and positions.

All too often, arts and crafts are considered a simple pastime for housewives "with nothing else to do" but raise children and care for the home (as if these were small tasks!) Fortunately, new generations of artists and designers are increasingly putting craft techniques to use in their artwork and applying artistic techniques to create beautiful yet utilitarian objects. This book is for anyone aiming to create objects of beauty for everyday use in their own home or in the homes of friends and loved ones.