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This volume delves into the discursive construction of three closely linked linguistic functions: evaluation, emotion, and persuasion in order to explore how they may intertwine. The discourse genres examined comprise business pitches, political debates, media discourse, fiction, social networks, etc., either in English or Spanish. The editors bring together a miscellanea of papers written by scholars from different Spanish universities and with different research backgrounds to deal with diverse topics under the general premise that an evaluative process underlies every persuasive act and...

Wishing to learn how to fly, a little boy reads his grandfather's books to learn and discovers the power of his imagination.

Hay libros que definen la noticia, que enumeran fuentes de información o que exponen modelos de reportaje, pero pocos logran mostrar cómo se detecta y consigue la noticia, cómo se llega a fuentes adecuadas o cómo integra el reportero los datos y declaraciones recogidas para sus reportajes. Este manual muestra desde cómo redactar una necrológica o cómo leer un presupuesto municipal, hasta cómo realizar la cobertura de una catástrofe o la crónica de un concierto, sin olvidar las normas y consejos prácticos necesarios para expresarse, en todos los casos, con la corrección...

This study focuses on the formalization of a fundamental experience of human existence: the act of perception. Unlike most other linguistic research dealing with the "prototypical" verbs of visual and auditory perception, it concentrates on the complicated polysemy of the multimodal verb sentir. The findings provide important new insight into the linguistic expression of perception in general.