Panorama actual del estudio y la enseñanza de discursos especializados

Because of the increasing number of patients with limited language proficiency due to immigration in many countries, the need for healthcare interpreters and translators has grown swiftly in the last decade. This book gathers contributions by outstanding researchers, practitioners and trainers in translation and interpreting in healthcare situations.

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 early beginnings to 1600), published in 1994, to bring together already available bibliographical information with the more recent research findings, scattered in many places, books and articles and published during the past one hundred years. BICRES II (covering the 1601–1700 period) followed in 1999....

"A richly illustrated pamphlet details life and accomplishments of one of Argentina's first collectors of European art. Del Valle (1845-96) had comprehensive tastes and his collection ran the gamut from Renaissance Spanish portraits to an 'arlequin dansant' by Degas"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

There is no survey study to date that would have analyzed the history of spatial relations in Castilian Spanish, i.e. the prepositions, transitive adverbs as well as prepositional and adverbial locutions used for the spatial localization of entities. Based on an extensive corpus, this book offers a complete diasystematic characterization of these aspects and discusses new hypotheses with regard to their correlations.

El nacimiento de las lenguas, su extensión, el arraigo en un pueblo y su desaparición avanzan junto con los acontecimientos que dan forma a la Historia. Es un ciclo continuo e inmutable. En esos cambios permanentes, el ser humano ha sentido desde siempre la necesidad de ser bilingüe y así, si un viajero desea decir algo en cualquier rincón del planeta, intentará hablar el latín actual, que es el inglés; hace dos mil años ese mismo viajero intentaría expresarse en el inglés de entonces, que era el latín. Las lenguas son, pues, numerosas y diversas. Las que han influido en la...