Revista Modmex PC Num 15

Winner of the 2010 Isabel de Polanco Award. At the end of the 15th century, Castilian Spanish disembarked in America to begin the long journey that would transform it into Spanish. From those days to our time, the language has been in a constant state of transformation, transforming its speakers in the process. This work is much more than a lesson in history; it is fundamental reading for all those interested in a vital area of our everyday lives: the language that unites us.

El libro, cuyo complemento teórico bien pudiera ser el que le precede, consta de 15 comentarios dialectales, más cinco de ejercicios, de los siguientes dialectos: leonés, aragonés, extremeño, murciano, andaluz y canario. Cada dominio lingüístico va introducido por un mínimo estudio de las principales características. Se ha intentado ser lo más didáctico posible, sin que ello fuese en detrimento de la calidad científica. Para facilitar la comprensión, se han incluido varios mapas y cuadros. Creemos que este libro puede ser de suma utilidad tanto para etudiantes de Filología, como ...

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 creator of Jimmy Corrigan presents a collection of both new and previously published material featuring such colorful characters as Jimmy Corrigan, Rocket Sam, Quimby the mouse, the Super-man, Sparky the cat, Big Tex, and Rusty Brown, a young suburban Chicago outcast and toy collector. Teen.