De Tiziano a Bassano

El Barroco se aborda aquí por los profesores Fernando Checa y José Miguel Morán como un fenómeno pleno de complejidad y contradicciones, muy distante de los planteamientos que lo habían venido considerando hasta ahora una realidad unitaria y cerrada.

Synopsis: It’s 2008, at the height of the second Gulf War, and Don’t Ask Don’t Tell still bans LGBTQ service members from revealing their truth. Cy Burns, discharged from the Army for coming out, now takes on the world with her words, blogging from her rural country store where she and her employee, Sammy, elicit a mix of admiration and homophobia. When local infantryman Cole begs for Cy's help in wooing east coast transplant Rose, she volunteers to ghost write his courtship and keep her own admiration for Rose silent. Meanwhile, the return of her former commander revives old grudges...

The book presents a selection of papers on syntactic variation from different theoretical and methodological points of view. As such, it contributes to a process of reflection on the dialectical relationship between theoretical explanation and empirical description. In the first part, the authors discuss the use of corpora in syntactic variation studies. The rest of the book presents some new approaches to a number of controversial topics. Part Two concentrates on word order, information structure, and its phonological realization, while Part Three enlarges on variations in the encoding of...

Cuando uno ha nacido y crecido rodeado de corridas, capeas y encierros de toros por todas partes puede creer que esta costumbre bárbara es algo natural, pero llega un momento en que se experimenta una revelación. Manuel Vicent también fue en su niñez y juventud uno de tantos españoles que gozó de la fiesta nacional hasta que un día descubrió su miseria. «Cuando uno vuelve al lugar de aquellos juegos taurinos que le hicieron tan feliz y contempla a otros niños embruteciéndose con el mismo juego, de pronto, a uno se le abren los ojos y se le presenta con toda nitidez la crueldad...

Quality assurance has been a major issue in Higher Education discourse during the past decade. Evaluations, accreditations and assessments have almost become standard procedures within the framework of translation studies. This quest for quality has not only to integrate market needs and new market requirements, but also novel strategies in training - whereby training learners and trainers has to be given equal attention. Translation quality has become a key issue in the interlinguistic and intercultural communication market as well as in the translator education environment. It has to be...