El aprendizaje autónomo de lenguas en tándem

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The poetic birth of Cuba, and of the character of its culture, might be found in a phrase placed in the mouth of an aborigine of the island and included in a book by the Cuban writers Cintio Vitier and Fina Garcia Marruz, who traced and assembled such outbursts of inadvertent poetry. As is well known, the Spaniards arrived in America by way of the Antilles, which have always formed a sort of aquatic frontier of the continent. In addition to a thirst for gold, the peculiar geography of the area awakened another obsession in Christopher Columbus and his followers that was to last for years: to...

"En medios de constantes cambios, el periodismo hacia todo lo posible por adaptarse a los tiempos de la sociedad red, que caminaba bajo la estela digital y la ubicuidad comunicativa. Los procesos de reconfiguración en marcha incentivaban las prisas, lo que favoreció la improvisación y el desconcierto en muchas estrategias. Con todo, a pesar de las dificultades, la necesidad de afrontar desafíos y la constante innovación alimentaron la ilusión por emprender la conquista de nuevos tiempos para el periodismo durante la primera etapa de la transici6n al escenario digital, en el que...

This book aims to give a general overview of the current theoretical and applied models which are being developed in the field of Cognitive Linguistics. With this purpose in mind, a number of papers have been selected from some of the most representative areas in the cognitive linguistics arena: mental imagery, metaphor and metonymy, cognitive grammar and construction grammar, the pragmatic and discourse background of language use and linguistic relativism. Some of the contributions presented herein propose new ways to refine existing theoretical frameworks: others apply some of those...