Lo viejo y lo nuevo

This collection of texts deals with lexicographical and grammatical issues of Spanish from a contrastive and didactic perspective. It aims at identifying the phenomena which are most interesting for compiling contrastive grammars and dictionaries for the Spanish language by focussing on the latest developments in the field of foreign language teaching. In its first part, the volume presents discussions of the contrastive method in linguistics as well as in foreign language teaching and of the theoretical issues concerning the nature of the tertium comparationis for comparative linguistic...

Since the publication of the still very valuable Biblioteca histórica de la filología by Cipriano Muñoz y Manzano, conde de la Viñaza (Madrid, 1893), our knowledge of the history of the study of the Spanish language has grown considerably. It has been the purpose of BICRES I (from the early beginnings to 1600), published in 1994, to bring together already available bibliographical information with the more recent research findings, scattered in many places, books and articles and published during the past one hundred years. BICRES II (covering the 1601–1700 period) followed in 1999....

Designer and academic Castillo Espinoza examines the history, the political and social context and the meaning of the popular graphic art with ideological purposes in Chile. This artistic expression has taken over the public spaces (walls and other structures) and throughout the creativity of specialists capable of creating political propaganda formats, such as printers, painters and designers has develop into a cultural patrimony that represents the collective memory left by the various subversive brigades in past social movements.

Antología que tiene como propósito demostrar la doble influencia que el psicoanálisis ha ejercido sobre la literatura contemporánea, dando al lector y al crítico literario nuevos enfoques y abriendo al escritor insólitos campos e instrumentos para la exploración de sí mismo y del material de que se vale.