Los desafíos a las televisiones en América Latina : cultura política, comunicación pública e innovación

This volume delves into the discursive construction of three closely linked linguistic functions: evaluation, emotion, and persuasion in order to explore how they may intertwine. The discourse genres examined comprise business pitches, political debates, media discourse, fiction, social networks, etc., either in English or Spanish. The editors bring together a miscellanea of papers written by scholars from different Spanish universities and with different research backgrounds to deal with diverse topics under the general premise that an evaluative process underlies every persuasive act and...

In this work, an overall description of the phenomena known generically as lexical relations is developed, using methodology based on semantic functionalism. The phenomena described include polysemy, homonymy, synonymy, hyperonymy, cohyponymy, hyponymy and antonymy, with special attention being paid to polysemy or homonymy and in particular to synonymy and its relation to antonymy, parasynonymy and hyponymy. The theoretical basis of a research project on these relations is put forward, the main objective of which is to carry out a comprehensive analysis in a determined language of the...

This in-depth look at Latin American art explores the complexity of the contemporary aesthetic and cultural milieu in this vast and diverse region of the world, focusing on a critical re-reading of the Baroque in Latin America and its curious function as an important cultural metaphor. The diversity of artists represented--hailing from South America, Mexico, the Caribbean, and the United States--serves to critique and recuperate this concept of the Baroque that has become increasingly clichéd and misunderstood. With art by Ruben Ortiz Torres, Miguel Calderon, Rochelle Costi, Arturo Duclos,...

¿Cuántos saben quién fue Arrio y qué fue la Herejía Arriana? Son muy pocos, porque esta monumental controversia entre los defensores del dogma de la Trinidad y sus opositores, que se dio en el siglo IV, ha sido mantenida oculta bajo siete llaves por la Iglesia Católica. Hasta el día de hoy se defiende a brazo partido de quienes puedan poner en peligro la subsistencia de su dogma trascendente. El dogma trinitario no nació junto con la iglesia cristiana, sino que fue introducido más de doscientos años después por filósofos y teólogos de raíz griega, entre los cuales destacó...