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This handbook, designed both as an introduction for students and a reference work for the entire research community, gives a concise, systematic and extensive overview of the different topics and approaches associated with linguistic research on American Spanish.

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...

El presente volumen contiene cuarenta artículos científicos escritos por profesores del área de Filología Inglesa pertenecientes a varias universidades que han querido homenajear a la Dra. Asunción Alba Pelayo, catedrática de Filología Inglesa y actual profesora emérita en la UNED. Los ensayos están agrupados en las siguientes secciones: I) Lingüística y didáctica del inglés, II) Literatura en lengua inglesa, III) Traducción, y IV) Historia y cultura de los países de habla inglesa. Previamente, el lector tendrá la oportunidad de conocer mejor a la homenajeada a través del...

This book aims to give a general overview of the current theoretical and applied models which are being developed in the field of Cognitive Linguistics. With this purpose in mind, a number of papers have been selected from some of the most representative areas in the cognitive linguistics arena: mental imagery, metaphor and metonymy, cognitive grammar and construction grammar, the pragmatic and discourse background of language use and linguistic relativism. Some of the contributions presented herein propose new ways to refine existing theoretical frameworks: others apply some of those...