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This thoroughly updated second edition provides a clear and comprehensive overview of sociolinguistics and the pragmatics of oral communication in Spanish. While maintaining the same structure as the first edition, it includes revised “Ejercicios de reflexión” and new comprehension checks at the end of each chapter, along with numerous bibliographic references throughout, enhancing its use as a classroom text. Among the significant revisions are new sections on corpus linguistics and on statistical modeling programs for studying linguistic variables, an expanded chapter on the study of...

Material in this book previously published in: Inside the worlds of Star wars episode I; Inside the worlds of Star wars attack of the clones, Inside the worlds of Star wars trilogy.

This book tries to be a proposal for the description of function inside a descriptive semiotic-functional sentence model. The author's purpose is to characterise this function as a symbolic scheme and so, follow Alarcos' model in relation to the category of function.

Este estudio plantea la cinefilia como una subcultura y la relaciona con otras prácticas sociales ?las modas, los estilos de vida, los gustos musicales, las culturas del ocio? utilizadas por la cultura popular para definir su identidad, legitimarse como grupo y adquirir prestigio social. Partiendo de las aportaciones de sociólogos y teóricos de la cultura como Pierre Bourdieu o Raymond Williams, de los estudios de recepción, de las políticas de género y de los estudios subculturales, Fans, cinéfilos y cinéfagos intenta mostrar las implicaciones ideológicas y políticas de los gustos...