Desplazamiento lingüístico y revitalización

Behind Frida Kahlo’s portraits, lies the story of both her life and work. It is precisely this combination that draws the reader in. Frida’s work is a record of her life, and rarely can we learn so much about an artist from what she records inside the picture frame. Frida Kahlo truly is Mexico’s gift to the history of art. She was just eighteen years old when a terrible bus accident changed her life forever, leaving her handicapped and burdened with constant physical pain. But her explosive character, raw determination and hard work helped to shape her artistic talent. And although he...

Los tratados de ortografía que se han publicado antes que el presente, sólo contienen unas pocas reglas sobre el uso de aquellas letras que los desconocedores del idioma español, pueden omitir o emplear desacertadamente; y aun entre estas pocas reglas hay varias inútiles para los principiantes, porque presuponen el conocimiento del latín, o porque, teniendo excepciones, como sus autores lo afirman sin expresar cuáles son, nadie puede atreverse a aplicarlas sin temor de equivocarse. En una palabra, dichos tratados no enseñan al principiante lo único que necesita saber, esto es, cuáles ...

'Losing the Human Form: A Seismic Image of the 1980s in Latin America' evokes an image of the 1980s in Latin America that establishes a counterpoint between the effects of violence on bodies and the radical experiments in freedom and transformation which impugned the repressive order. Stricken bodies / mutant bodies. Between horror and festivity, the materials gathered show not only the consequences of mass disappearances and massacres under dictatorial régimes, states of siege and internal wars, but also various collective urges to devise modes of existing in a permanent state of...

The contributions gathered in this volume explore the possible uses of Bible translations to open new perspectives in the history of Iberian Romance languages. In addition to the linguistic description of Bible translations, they provide innovative analyses of a number of morphosyntactic phenomena of high theoretical interest, thus contributing to improve our historical understanding of Castilian, Catalan and Portuguese.