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Mandalas allow us to better understand ourselves and are essential for self-awareness. The creative activity of coloring mandalas requires a departure from everyday consciousness, which lets us experience our deepest feelings and thoughts.

Bermeo, siglo XVI, el convento de la Isla de Ízaro ha sido asaltado por unos piratas extranjeros. Joaquín y Moncho sospechan por ello que en las cuevas de la isla se oculta un gran tesoro

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.

Since the publication of the still very valuable Biblioteca histórica de la filología by Cipriano Muñoz y Manzano, conde de la Viñaza (Madrid, 1893), our knowledge of the history of the study of the Spanish language has grown considerably. It has been the purpose of BICRES I (from the early beginnings to 1600), published in 1994, to bring together already available bibliographical information with the more recent research findings, scattered in many places, books and articles and published during the past one hundred years. BICRES II (covering the 1601–1700 period) followed in 1999....