Odisea nº 12: Revista de estudios ingleses

This monograph focuses on modality in Spanish. It presents the theoretical approach to this category formulated by Bohumil Zavadil and, consequently, it analyses its possible application to Spanish. We concentrate on specific areas of the Spanish modal system where two modal meanings combine. Theoretical analyses are combined with corpus-based studies concentrating on the choice of mood or contextual interpretation of selected constructions. We veryfied that areas where two modal meanings meet are a natural part of the Spanish modal system and that the combination of modal meanings has...

Designed for use in advanced composition courses, this text helps students develop abilities in composition tasks that reflect the kind of writing students are generally asked to perform as Spanish majors and minors. This revision responds to the growing interest in the development of functional, purposeful language skills, to the findings of writing research, and to the helpful reactions of those who have used this best-selling textbook throughout the years..

La obra contiene: Aventuras, inventos y mixtificaciones de Silvestre Paradox. Las inquietudes de Shanti Andía. Zalacaín el aventurero. El mundo es ansí

Wie kommt die Krise in die Zeitung? Welche Taktik steckt hinter Wahlkampffloskeln? Und was sagt die Sprachwissenschaft dazu? Die Autoren dieses Buches analysieren den Diskurs zwischen Politik und Medien aus romanistisch-linguistischer Perspektive und stellen hier einige korpusgestützte Fallstudien vor. Sie untersuchen darin unter anderem Wahlkampfstrategien und -taktiken sowie die mediale Darstellung der politischen Krise in den romanischen Ländern. Die empirisch belegten Analysen thematisieren sowohl einzelsprachliche Phänomene als auch sprachübergreifende Gemeinsamkeiten, wobei einzelne ...