El poder del centro

Alongside considerable continuity, 20th-century diachronic linguistics has seen substantial shifts in outlook and procedure from the 19th-century paradigm. Our understanding of what is really new and what is recycled owes a great debt to E. F. K. Koerner's minutely researched interpretations of the work of the field's founders and key transitional figures. At the cusp of the 21st century, some of the best known scholars in the field explore how these methodological shifts have been and continue to be played out in historical Romance, Germanic and Indo-European linguistics, as well as in work...

Esta obra recoge algunos ensayos sobre la evolución de la ficción narrativa desde la Ilustración al Romanticismo. La selección de temas y la reseña histórica de los contenidos transmitidos por los tratados latinos de Retórica sirven de punto de partida. En todos los capitulos se pretende poner de relieve la continuidad de la tradición en el estilo y en la diversificación de las estructuras de la novela. Sin embargo, la pérdida u olvido de algunos contenidos de la retórica humanistica fue uno de los efectos de la perspectiva Estética en la creación literaria. A través de este...

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...

Roberto Garcia Carbonell is a recognized expert in human communication and speech. Over 30 years dedicated to the training of managers, leaders, pedagogues, students and communicators endorse his authority in this subject. In this work, he synthesizes his thoughts and experiences with rigor and simplicity.