Elegía

This sociophonetic study investigates the language of Andalusian politicians in the Spanish government between 1923 and 2011. Thanks to a quantitative analysis that reveals processes of convergence and divergence between Andalusian and central-peninsular Spanish throughout the century, it formulates unprecedented conclusions on the behavior of the Andalusian variety outside of its borders in educated speakers and formal communication contexts.

In this groundbreaking synthesis of mindfulness, somatics, and nonviolent communication, Oren Jay Sofer offers simple yet powerful practices to develop healthy, effective, and satisfying ways of communicating.

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...

Rob Reiner es uno de esos directores sobre los que se podría decir que trabajan prácticamente desde el anonimato. Sobre él no se publican libros ni se encuentran grandes estudios monográficos en revistas especializadas, no se hacen promociones internacionales de sus películas ni se escriben amplios reportajes, no hay estrenos multitudinarios ni espectaculares campañas publicitarias. Y, sin embargo, en su filmografía hay varios títulos que forman parte de la cultura popular y que son fácilmente reconocibles (y recordados) por el gran público como, por ejemplo, "Cuenta conmigo"...