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From vulgar insults to religious oaths, colloquialisms to clichés, the personality and passion of a language can be found in its slang. Spanish is no exception, as the McGraw-Hill Diccionario del Argot makes clear. This monolingual Spanish dictionary provides the most authoritative reference to all aspects of non-standard Spanish, with more than 12,000 entries supported by 20,000 citations. The broad range of sources, from literature to newspapers and TV, reflects the full spectrum of contemporary usage in Spain. For scope and depth as well as bibliographic reference, this is an essential...

En el presente volumen se exploran los roles que desempeña la prensa hispánica en las redes culturales a la hora de construir, transmitir, transformar y mediar ideas y representaciones. Gracias a esta perspectiva temática compartida, sus 16 contribuciones establecen un diálogo que cruza las fronteras disciplinarias entre los estudios históricos, discursivos, literarios y culturales. Se hilvana así un diálogo que tiende puentes en el tiempo y en el espacio: arranca a finales del siglo XVIII y llega hasta el siglo XXI, abarcando los tiempos del auge masivo de la prensa y sus épocas más ...

Julio Baena offers a new analysis of Cervantes's last and most controversial novel, Los trabajos de Persiles y Segismunda. Baena's particular focus on the first chapter of this allegorical text, which he sees as a microcosm of the entire novel, allows him to explore the correspondence between microcosm and macrocosm in Cervantes's allegorical text. Placing this work within the intellectual context of its era, Baena uses poststructuralist methodologies to develop the existential implications of Persiles's central cosmological metaphor.

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