Cmo pintar agua a la acuarela / Water in Watercolor

The object of this volume is the study of missionary translation practices which occur within a colonial context of political domination and spiritual conquest. Missionary translation becomes especially manifest in bilingual ethnographic descriptions, in (bilingual) catechisms and in the missionaries' lexicographic condensation of bilingual dictionaries. The study of these instances permits the analysis and interpretation of their guiding principles, their translation practice and underlying reasoning. It also permits the modern linguist to discern semantic changes that can be revealed in...

El periodismo también es un género literario, como se constata en los brillantes reportajes y crónicas de Egon Erwin Kisch. No se trata sólo de documentar los hechos, sino de ponerlos en contexto, de mostrar la complejidad que los rodea. Para lograrlo, Kisch recurre a la narración periodística, la cual no llegaría a ser lo que actualmente es sin la inmensa labor que desarrolló a lo largo de su vida. Parte de este trabajo se reúne en El reportero vertiginoso, una serie de crónicas y reportajes que nos sumergen en el mundo del autor y en su visión profunda y panorámica. Compuesto...

This volume provides a detailed overview of the current state of research in diachronic Romance lexicography, a field that has seen exciting new trends and considerable changes in recent years. It presents essays that discuss up-to-date research questions and also provides extensive information about the history of lexicographical activities and research in the different Romance languages.

Papers consider various sets of historical military-themed graffiti (representations of battles, armaments, infrastructure, warriors and soldiers, slogans or proclamations, etc.), all of them drawings and/or messages engraved in spaces linked to defence culture (the walls of castles, barracks, sentry boxes, prisons or bunkers, among others).