Daniel Buren

This sociophonetic study investigates the language of Andalusian politicians in the Spanish government between 1923 and 2011. Thanks to a quantitative analysis that reveals processes of convergence and divergence between Andalusian and central-peninsular Spanish throughout the century, it formulates unprecedented conclusions on the behavior of the Andalusian variety outside of its borders in educated speakers and formal communication contexts.

The main objective of this work was to obtain an overview of the Roman monetary circulation in Gallaecia following the road network that crossed this territory in Roman times. With a historical and economic emphasis, this volume aims to understand the process of monetization within the economy of the Galicians and Asturians and the ways in which the phenomenon occurs. Of particular importance is the fact that these people were never minting currency so the monetization process was not provoked by civic institutions but through contact with people and goods coming from outside the territory....

This volume brings together a selection of papers presented at an international conference on Translation Studies in Barcelona in 1998. The papers illustrate four areas that are of particular interest in translation research today in Europe, Asia and Latin America. The purpose of the first section, 'Investigating Translation Paradigms', is to reach a critical revision of existing paradigms and to develop new ones in approaching the translated text. The second section, 'Investigating the Translation Process', focuses on the skills, knowledge and strategies that make up translation competence....

La vida en la antigua ciudad de Pompeya, un punto de encuentro entre el mundo humano y el de los dioses.Pompeya en todo su esplendor: la construcción privada, las magníficas pinturas llenas de imágenes y simbología, la elegante arquitectura, los exuberantes jardines, las vistas panorámicas, los bodegones, las escenas de la vida cotidiana y la mitología. Una nueva y compleja imagen del arte de Pompeya. Pompeya presenta un tejido urbano extraordinario, con edificios públicos y privados, mobiliario y elementos decorativos, el cual nos permite reconstruir las múltiples variantes de la...