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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Spanish Linguistics"”.
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A semantic and pragmatic analysis of the Spanish word 'lie' : implications and applications for the second language learner.
… The following paper examines whether or not the Spanish word mentira or 'lie' in Madrid, Spain includes the same elements from Coleman and Kay's prototype, and also offers a pragmatic explanation for some lies, specifically, social lies. Secondly, the present study explores possible pragmatic …
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Discursos institucionales y manuales de texto de la <i>American Association of Teachers of Spanish</i> (1912–1944): Un estudio de la historia política de la enseñanza del español en Estados Unidos
… on the political history of the teaching of Spanish in the United States during the first half of 20th century. Drawing from the history of the <em>American Association of Teachers of Spanish – </em>AATS (1926) as a normative agent,<em> </em>along with key linguistic instruments created by …
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From deference to face: the evolution of usted in Costa Rican Spanish
… person singular address pronouns in Costa Rican Spanish, from the 16th to the 20th centuries. The analysis is built around two time periods, the first from the 16th to the 18th centuries and the second period covers the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century. The analysis is made …
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A Computational Study in the Detection of English–Spanish Code-Switches
… occurring specifically between English and Spanish in two corpora.</p> <p>Twitter and other social media sites have provided an abundance of linguistic data that is available to researchers to perform countless experiments. Collecting the data is fairly easy if a study is on monolingual …
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Continuidad y cambio en los condicionantes lingüísticos y socio-demográficos del uso del pronombre sujeto en el español de la primera generación en Nueva York
… 2004 ; Silva-Corvalán, 1994). Research about Spanish in the US shows that second generation speakers have different features from those of the first generation who are Latinos born in Latin America. However, is it possible that all the speakers of the first generation behave grammatically in …
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Motivaciones comunicativas para la expresión de sujeto en secuencias clausales correferenciales en español
… subject expression in co-referential clauses in Spanish from a functional and discourse perspective. The purpose of this quantitative and qualitative investigation is to provide a strategy of communication that accounts for the presence or absence of subject expression in the second clause of a …
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HERE NOR THERE
<p><em>Here Nor There</em> is a collection of poetry that interrogates dreams and dreaming—both wakefulness and unconsciousness. The book examines themes of family and the environment through the lens of Consciousness Studies in relation to lucid dreaming, memory, and cultural practices. More …
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ANÁLISIS DESCRIPTIVO Y CONTRASTIVO DEL ESQUEMA CONDICIONAL POTENCIAL EN LA VARIEDAD DEL ESPAÑOL DE AMÉRICA
El objetivo principal de este estudio reside en la necesidad de contribuir a los estudios sobre sintaxis histórica del español de América. Las conclusiones de las investigaciones realizadas sobre esta variedad del español han demostrado que, en la actualidad, existe una mayor preferencia de empleo …
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No ELA Without Ella: Understanding the Naming and Crafting of Gendered Subjectivities in Puerto Rico
<p>At the beginning of the 20th century, the official metadiscourses about gendered job titles sedimented the idea that names or indexes pointing to women should be interpreted as unskilled, cheap, or even free labor in Puerto Rico (Azize, 1985; Muñiz Mas, 1998; Baerga-Santini, 1999). For this …