La lingüística en España. Autobiografías intelectuales

The book presents a selection of papers on syntactic variation from different theoretical and methodological points of view. As such, it contributes to a process of reflection on the dialectical relationship between theoretical explanation and empirical description. In the first part, the authors discuss the use of corpora in syntactic variation studies. The rest of the book presents some new approaches to a number of controversial topics. Part Two concentrates on word order, information structure, and its phonological realization, while Part Three enlarges on variations in the encoding of...

Carpe risum, de Ernesto de la Peña, es un acercamiento, a la vez respetuoso e irreverente, a los festines burlescos de la obra y vida del humanista francés de los siglos XV y XVI. En este hondo análisis, que humildemente su autor describe como "un panorama a ojo de pájaro", el políglota mexicano otorga al lector contemporáneo una visión actualizada y entretenida de Gargantúa y Pantagruel que permite empaparse del ambiente que rodeaba a este escritor galo en ocasiones poco valorado, pero fundamental para la literatura occidental.

This book examines the resources that speakers employ when building conversations. These resources contribute to overall coherence and cohesion, which speakers create and maintain interactively as they build on each other s contributions. The study is cross-linguistic, drawing on parallel corpora of task-oriented dialogues between dyads of native speakers of English and Spanish. The framework of the investigation is the analysis of speech genres and their staging; the analysis shows that each stage in the dialogues exhibits different thematic, rhetorical, and cohesive relations. The main...

This little-known book of the author brings together eight approaches to the subject of the relationship between sacred art and profane art; between religion, ritual and aesthetics. Clearly and with abundant examples, Westheim explores how history has changed the significance of the work of art, of being a representation of the divinity or even of herself, to become a museum piece, destined to the valuation of their artistic merits.