Los mentideros. Puntos de encuentro social y atalayas de información

Since the Foundation of The Hispanic Society of America in 1904 by Archer M. Huntington (1870-1955), there has never been an artist so closely related to his famous art collection as Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida (1863-1923). The doors of the Hispanic society had only been open for only a few months when Huntington discovered the work of Sorolla, who at the time was exhibiting at Grafton Galleries. Huntington had found in Sorolla an artist that shared the same love for Spain, its villages and habits; that is why he began organizing the exhibition that would take place a year later. They worked...

"Forn parece haber destilado al extremo ese género que se alimenta voraz y felizmente de la lectura como una exploración de vidas, episodios, lugares e hitos que encierran, en un detalle minúsculo, la clave que los hace inolvidables bajo la forma de un relato." Ángel Berlanga, Página 12 La tierra elegida es una selección de los mejores ensayos de Juan Forn que Emecé publicó con anterioridad en dos volúmenes: La tierra elegida y Ningún hombre es una isla. En un registro anfibio, polifacético, Forn perfecciona un género que es también un estilo y que reúne lo que a primera vista...

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...

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 beginnings to 1600), published in 1994 in the same series, to bring already available bibliographical information together with the more recent research findings, scattered in many places, books and articles and published during the past one hundred years. Now, the second volume, covering the years from...