This article analyzes different descriptive methods used in several articles that present social types seen in latinamerican literature of manners. The literary category known as 'social type' is defined as well as the ...

This article provides the proto-conosonant reconstruction of an Afro-Portuguese pidgin spoken in the Americas in the XVII Century according to the principles of the Historical Comparative Method.

The present work means to establish the theoretical offer of the paratexts as an important tool in the critical approximation to fiction text. For this, the principal paratexts of the novel Cruz de olvido of the Costa Rican ...

In this article the discourse factors that Costa Rican Spanish speakers consider in choosing between the analytical or the syntetical possesives are analized. In addition, others strategies to express possesion in spoken ...

One of the basic conditions required for university students to study a subject, using only books written in a foreign language, is that they have an acceptable level of reading. Nevertheless, we have tried to prove that ...

In this course I will present the results of an investigation into a pedagogical strategy for the teaching of written Spanish to non native students. The outcome of which is focused on the process rather than the product. ...

At the crossroads of bordering areas and meeting points of diverse peoples, reflections on national identity bloom magnificently. The Mexico-U.S. borderline arises as a symbolic landmark of the Hispanic-American/Anglo-American ...

In this paper, the epilogues of a corpus of 30 presidential speeches are analyzed in relation to their topics and particular aspects of style. The speeches correspond to the last given to the Congress by each Administration ...

The treatment of the independence of Cuba in the Spanish novel of the nighteenth century is the subject that we approached in this work. Few novels were written on this topic, among others, the Separatist (1895) of Eduardo ...

Given three textual elements: mice cancer, life in shanties and castration, a metonymy of the Spanish postwar is constructed in the novel Tiempo de Silencio. The symbolic values of these images assemble a city that determines ...