Lenguaje y significado

Se recogen en este volumen trabajos lingüísticos de índole muy diversa, pero siempre con un factor común: el análisis contrastivo de las lenguas inglesa y española. Aspectos concretos de léxico, la sintaxis, la fonología, la retórica, la pragmática, la traducción o la enseñanza del inglés y el español aparecen analizados desde diversas perspectivas teóricas.

The Mexican painter, Rufino Tamayo (1899-1991) was first recognized in a 1930s publication on the contemporary artists of Mexico. He lived in Paris and in New York for several years but did not become known in the States until after an exhibition of his work at the Philips Collection in Washington, D.C., in 1978 followed by a major retrospective of his work at the Guggenheim Museum in 1979. Unlike his contemporaries, the nationalistic muralists Diego Rivera, Jose Clemente Orozco, and David Alfaro Siqueiros, Tamayo preferred to express his Hispanic heritage through oil paintings and frescos...

Between 2016 and 2018 Pablo Ortiz Monasterio visited the city of Buenos Aires in Argentina three times. Observing how the ?Me too? movement was gaining strength not only in the United States, but also throughout Latin America, Ortiz Monasterio witnesses the power, latent and at the same time palpable, of the women of the city. Women, he says, who step strong and who, portrayed in this small book of a great moment, represent the forcefulness of the affects that lead the feminist movements that fight and work for a fairer future.

The book you have in your hands has its distant ancestor in an International Symposium held at the University of Salamanca in September 2011 (2nd-4th) and entitled «Continental Celtic Word Formation. The Onomastic Data». The idea for this gathering arose from a series of conversations between Juan Luis García Alonso, Patrick Sims-Williams and Alexander Falileyev in Aberystwyth in March 2010. This book is undoubtedly indebted to this previous event (belonging in a series that we might call our «Ptolemy Workshops», held in Aberystwyth in 1999 (Ptolemy: Towards a linguistic atlas of the...