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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....

Great grandfather longed to travel the seas, but life got in the way and he never left. His dauthter, though, carries out her father's dreams.

Material in this book previously published in: Inside the worlds of Star wars episode I; Inside the worlds of Star wars attack of the clones, Inside the worlds of Star wars trilogy.

En las ltimas d cadas del siglo XX la ficci n hist rica es una de las tendencias m s frecuentadas de la literatura latinoamericana. Para evaluar la trayectoria de esta corriente, Peter Elmore estudia aqu cinco de las obras m s representativas: el siglo de las luces, de Carpentier; Yo el Supremo, de Roa Bastos; la guerra del fin del mundo, de Vargas Llosa; Noticias del Imperio, de Fernando del Paso y el general en su laberinto, de Garc a M rquez.