La publicidad local/ The Local Publicity

Quality assurance has been a major issue in Higher Education discourse during the past decade. Evaluations, accreditations and assessments have almost become standard procedures within the framework of translation studies. This quest for quality has not only to integrate market needs and new market requirements, but also novel strategies in training - whereby training learners and trainers has to be given equal attention. Translation quality has become a key issue in the interlinguistic and intercultural communication market as well as in the translator education environment. It has to be...

Soren nace en el bosque de Tyto, un reino tranquilo en el que habitan las lechuzas comunes. Soren es capturado y trasladado a un desfiladero sombrío e inhóspito. Lo llaman un orfanato, pero la joven lechuza cree que es algo much peor. Soren y sus amigos se unen para buscar la verdad y proteger el mundo de las lechuzas de un peligro inconcebible.

La obra nos muestra a tres viejos garzones, Efraín, Evaristo y Elías (últimos en el eslabón de la Orden de la Garzonería Secreta), y Eliana, la vieja cajera de un decadente restaurante capitalino, de nombre "Los Inmortales", que se reúnen y llevan a cabo, en medio de un ritual cruel y sadomasoquista, el ajusticiamiento a los líderes de una clase política tan decadente y mediocre como ellos. Los cadáveres yacen enterrados en los reservados del otrora lujoso y elegante local. La obra tiene una carga de violencia concentrada, encerrada como ellos, siempre a punto de estallar.

The main focus of this book is the investigation of linguistic variation in Spanish, considering spoken and written, specialised and non-specialised registers from a corpus linguistics approach and employing computational updated tools. The ten chapters represent a range of research on Spanish using a number of different corpora drawn from, amongst others, research articles, student writing, formal conversation and technical reports. A variety of methodologies are brought to bear upon these corpora including multi-dimensional and multi-register analysis, latent semantics and lexical bundles....