Lectura - Miguel Delibes: 'Cinco horas con Mario'

From vulgar insults to religious oaths, colloquialisms to clichés, the personality and passion of a language can be found in its slang. Spanish is no exception, as the McGraw-Hill Diccionario del Argot makes clear. This monolingual Spanish dictionary provides the most authoritative reference to all aspects of non-standard Spanish, with more than 12,000 entries supported by 20,000 citations. The broad range of sources, from literature to newspapers and TV, reflects the full spectrum of contemporary usage in Spain. For scope and depth as well as bibliographic reference, this is an essential...

Este libro trata de las finanzas y asuntos con los que se chocan las personas comunes y corrientes en la vida diaria, desde los niños hasta los ancianos, familias, propietarios de bienes, emprendedores, etc, en lo que concierne a la satisfacción de sus necesidades vitales relacionadas a sus actividades y a las interacciones con los bancos, seguros, etc... Cada lector podrá elegir el tema de mayor interés para poder manejar inteligentemente su economía en las diferentes fases de su vida.

Brazil at the crossroads. A debate about the future after eight years of President Lulu's government.

This study presents a corpus-based semasiologial and onomasiological analysis of the paradigm of adjectives and adverbs of accuracy. Looking specifically at justo / justamente, cabal / cabalmente, preciso / precisamente, and exacto / exactamente, it is above all concerned with the development of three pragmatic-discursive functions: focalization, affirmation, and reformulation.