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This sociophonetic study investigates the language of Andalusian politicians in the Spanish government between 1923 and 2011. Thanks to a quantitative analysis that reveals processes of convergence and divergence between Andalusian and central-peninsular Spanish throughout the century, it formulates unprecedented conclusions on the behavior of the Andalusian variety outside of its borders in educated speakers and formal communication contexts.

En este primer volumen que compone la colección vamos a ir paso a paso, empezando por una breve introducción al sistema de escritura, los tonos y la romanización del mandarín, conocida como pinyin. Posteriormente se abordan las principales estructuras que definen al mandarín de una manera exhaustiva. Los diferentes puntos gramaticales han sido ordenados siguiendo un plan secuencial para facilitar el aprendizaje. Irá conociendo estructuras gramaticales básicas que en poco tiempo le permitirán formar frases de una complejidad cada vez mayor. Este primer volumen se corresponde con los...

2014 Runner-Up, MLA Prize in United States Latina and Latino and Chicana and Chicano Literary and Cultural StudiesIn Unbecoming Blackness, Antonio López uncovers an important, otherwise unrecognized century-long archive of literature and performance that reveals Cuban America as a space of overlapping Cuban and African diasporic experiences. López shows how Afro-Cuban writers and performers in the U.S. align Cuban black and mulatto identities, often subsumed in the mixed-race and postracial Cuban national imaginaries, with the material and symbolic blackness of African Americans and other...

The manuscripts were begun in Milan while Leonardo da Vinci was in the service of Ludovico Sforza. He continued the work during the last 25 years of the artist's life. The works were subsequently published in the collection and based on Leon Battista Alberti and Cennino Cennini. After Leonardo's death, those notebooks passed into the hands of his pupil and heir Francesco Melzi, and he published them later. It was a task of overwhelming difficulty due to its scope and Leonardo's idiosyncratic writing.