Las cenizas de Birkenau

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...

Desde los siglos inquisitoriales, la censura moderna ha sido un mecanismo de control y exclusión de comunidades del saber. La teoría y la historia de la censura sostienen que el acto de censurar es también una práctica de lectura desde el poder, en la que al sentido de lo leído se superpone una verdad prestablecida. En un país como Cuba, regido por un partido comunista único y una notable estatalización de la sociedad y la economía, la censura es un hábito y una necesidad del sistema. El desgaste y la mutación en la ideología de ese Estado producen flexibilizaciones puntuales y...

This accessible textbook provides a clear introduction to the sounds of Spanish. Assuming no prior knowledge of linguistics, it explains from scratch the fundamentals of phonetics (the study of speech sounds) and phonology (the study of sound systems) and describes in detail the phonetic and phonological characteristics of Spanish as it is spoken in both Spain and Latin America. Topics covered include consonants, vowels, acoustics, stress, syllables, intonation, and aspects of variation within Spanish. Clear comparisons are made between the sounds of Spanish and those of English, and students ...

This study focuses on the formalization of a fundamental experience of human existence: the act of perception. Unlike most other linguistic research dealing with the "prototypical" verbs of visual and auditory perception, it concentrates on the complicated polysemy of the multimodal verb sentir. The findings provide important new insight into the linguistic expression of perception in general.