La Sonrisa del Tiempo

Si uno de los grandes pilares sobre los que se asienta la cultura occidental es la Antigüedad grecolatina, el otro, sin duda, es la tradición religiosa y cultural que arranca de la Biblia. Recogidos los principales personajes que protagonizan los mitos de la primera en el «Diccionario de mitología clásica» (BT 8101 y BT 8102), LA BIBLIA: DICCIONARIO DE PERSONAJES recoge todos aquellos que de un modo u otro participan en la fuente escrita de la segunda. En el presente volumen PETER CALVOCORESSI reúne más de 450 entradas relativas a personajes relacionados con el Antiguo y el Nuevo...

This volume provides a detailed overview of the current state of research in diachronic Romance lexicography, a field that has seen exciting new trends and considerable changes in recent years. It presents essays that discuss up-to-date research questions and also provides extensive information about the history of lexicographical activities and research in the different Romance languages.

The first section, "The critical discourse in Latin America," deals with varied perspectives with the existence of a uniquely American vision. The next section, "Mapping new territories," addresses the question, as inhabitants of this hemisphere, how do we see ourselves. Section three includes topics on issues of self-definition and cultural hybridity as well as the importance of challenging historical and political constructs traditionally used to define the American experience.

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...