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Le français et l'espagnol, langues des pouvoirs coloniaux durant plusieurs siècles et langues de nombreux peuples et États du monde, font partie d'une dynamique sociale extraordinaire au cours du 20e siècle, due à la mobilisation sociale et à la migration, à l'émergence de la radio, du cinéma, de la télévision et d'internet, sans oublier l'épanouissement de l'école et sa pratique langagière. El presente libro se propone dos objetivos: por un lado, quiere contribuir a la discusión sobre aspectos teóricos del cambio lingüístico con respecto a las lenguas estándar, y, por...

The Berlitz Spanish Vocabulary Handbook presents more than 8,000 key terms and phrase--including essential vocabulary for business professional--organized by function and topic and thoroughly cross-referenced. A perfect supplement for learners of Spanish at all levels. 256 pages.

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...

A very accurate symbolic representation of the way in which the intellectual as a social role expresses himself in relation to other estates within the medieval world is the exordial miniature of a Milanese Codex, the ms. Biblioteca Nationale Braidense AD XIII 30 (ca. 1400), preserving Petrarch’s moral treatise De remediis utriusque Fortunae. The symbolism of the image refers not only to the diversification of society and the recognition of this diversity as a defining vision of human community, it also casts a special light on the position of the intellectual as a public dignity, as a...