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The contributions gathered in this volume explore the possible uses of Bible translations to open new perspectives in the history of Iberian Romance languages. In addition to the linguistic description of Bible translations, they provide innovative analyses of a number of morphosyntactic phenomena of high theoretical interest, thus contributing to improve our historical understanding of Castilian, Catalan and Portuguese.

An illustrated collection of horror tales by Edgar Allan Poe, including "The Tell-tale Heart," "The Fall of the House of Usher," and "The Black Cat" translated into Spanish.

Dice Aristóteles en la Retórica que todos nos hemos visto en la situación de tener que examinar, apoyar, defender o atacar una afirmación y que, en general, lo hacemos de forma espontánea. Hoy, como entonces, constantemente tenemos que persuadir a los otros de la validez de nuestras opiniones o juzgar si nos convence lo que nos dicen. Y lo hacemos de forma espontánea, a falta de lo que Aristóteles denominaba «práctica». La gramática de la argumentación se ocupa de este problema atendiendo a las teorías contemporáneas así como a las de los clásicos. Vincenzo Lo Cascio propone...

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...