Luis Sahagún Cortés

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...

The articles included in this collection cover a wide range of literatures and topics, but most of them address the ways in which ethnic writers create themselves in opposition and resistance to the mainstream. These narratives of opposition and resistance do not equate protest narratives but represent a consciously subversive effort. There is agency and creativity in the confrontation, for the majority of the these narratives are not only demystifying an old world and order but creating a new one; there narratives are not reproducing as much as producing and forging culture and literature....

In step-by-step stages shows how to draw short-haired and long-haired cats and kittens and includes domestic and pedigree cats, along with patterned tabbies.

Estudiosa internacionalmente reconocida y muy respetada en el terreno de la lingüística. Deborah Tannen debe gran parte de su prestigio a su trabajo sobre la manera en que el lenguaje refleja y afecta a las relaciones entre hombres y mujeres. Ahora, en este libro, reúne cinco de sus más interesantes ensayos sobre lenguaje y género, y elabora un marco teórico y empírico que cubre un amplio espectro de cuestiones: analiza todo tipo de estrategias conversacionales; se centra en los elementos que pueden influir en el equilibrio de poder; y, por si fuera poco, proporciona un espléndido...