Hombres in/visibles

Nos enfrenta a la realidad de la comunicación y a la manipulación que esta sufre por parte de los poderes.

This empirical study investigates the existence of a hypothetical regional standard for Spanish in Catalonia based on a corpus made up of transcripts of some 70 hours of recorded interview material. The determining factors in the development of linguistic norms are analyzed in terms of the frequency of usage and the formal and informal acceptability of some 80 linguistic phenomena. The qualitative and quantitative analyses are supplemented by a study of the metalinguistic information and the linguistic attitudes identifiable in the interviews.

Muestra de casi veinticinco años de producción, este libro incluye once obras teatrales que lo mismo abordan temas de pareja, historias infantiles o parábolas políticas que la vida de los dentistas o el judaísmo perseguido por la Inquisición en México. Cada una de ellas, escrita con gran sentido del humor y gusto por el habla cotidiana, está animada por un fino mecanismo dramático lleno de recursos y sorpresas, que ha sabido reunir el aplauso del público y el de la crítica.

Alongside considerable continuity, 20th-century diachronic linguistics has seen substantial shifts in outlook and procedure from the 19th-century paradigm. Our understanding of what is really new and what is recycled owes a great debt to E. F. K. Koerner's minutely researched interpretations of the work of the field's founders and key transitional figures. At the cusp of the 21st century, some of the best known scholars in the field explore how these methodological shifts have been and continue to be played out in historical Romance, Germanic and Indo-European linguistics, as well as in work...