COMUNICACIÓN Y CULTURA

This volume provides a detailed overview of the current state of research in diachronic Romance lexicography, a field that has seen exciting new trends and considerable changes in recent years. It presents essays that discuss up-to-date research questions and also provides extensive information about the history of lexicographical activities and research in the different Romance languages.

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...

¿Qué es La Era del Político? La Era del Político es una odisea a través de los últimos 1,000 años de los hombres y mujeres que han marcado un antes y un después en el mundo. Pero no solo eso, también para ser propositivo advierto de una nueva Era de Política, una nueva era donde nazca una corriente de escritores, filósofos, músicos, poetas, directores, activistas sociales, periodistas, deportistas, científicos, críticos, ciudadanos; pero sobre todo de políticos. Planteó a través de conceptos y temas universales el posible inicio de un segundo renacimiento, desarrolló las...

Over the years, Kobena Mercer has critically illuminated the visual innovations of African American and black British artists. In Travel & See he presents a diasporic model of criticism that gives close attention to aesthetic strategies while tracing the shifting political and cultural contexts in which black visual art circulates. In eighteen essays, which cover the period from 1992 to 2012 and discuss such leading artists as Isaac Julien, Renée Green, Kerry James Marshall, and Yinka Shonibare, Mercer provides nothing less than a counternarrative of global contemporary art that reveals how...