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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....

Mario Merz's igloos, paintings, neon light sculptures and Fibonacci numerical-sequence installations have long been considered emblematic of the Arte Povera movement. This volume accompanies the artist's first exhibition ever in Brazil and features not only the works shown but also many other important pieces.

This is the first major monograph on the work of one of Britain's most dynamic artists, Wolfe von Lenkiewicz. His striking paintings and drawings mine the hallowed halls of art history and popular culture in search of visual languages, imagery, themes, and motifs that he can appropriate, adapt, use, and abuse, bringing together different movements, genres, periods, and styles in dialogues that are surprising, innovative, and sometimes provocative. Lenkiewicz's imagination and energy seem to be inexhaustible, concocting endless amazing hybrids such as iconic Renaissance paintings invaded by...

Este libro es una coleccion de ensayos sobre el sujeto exotico, ese que nos provoca atraccion y al mismo tiempo rechazo. El sujeto exotico, nos dice Weisz, representa el lugar a colonizar, y la alteridad asi resulta un estimulo para despertar la sed de aventura, lo que ha sido abordado en ficciones como la narrativa, el teatro y el cine de autores como Carpentier, Vargas Llosa, Anzaldua, Alexei, Moore, Coetzee, y Defoe, entre otros. Con base en reflexiones de Barthes, Ricoeur, Todorov, Bajtin, Said y Derrida, los textos exploran si lo salvaje, aquello que denominamos primitivo, define la...