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«Vaig tenir sort, vaig anar a néixer a davant de mar, en una ciutat que encara no havia estat engolida pel monstre turístic. Vaig estudiar a un institut de la muntanya de Sant Elm, a l'entrada del massís de l'Ardenya. Hi pujàvem a peu per vora mar. Fa quaranta anys, encara hi havia una consideració per l'ensenyament i per tant pels alumnes, i a les hores d'esbarjo ens deixaven sortir tranquil·lament del centre. Abans o després d'una classe de literatura o de matemàtiques, doncs, podies estar passejant-te (i parlant amb els companys) a davant mateix de mar. La meva formació tant deu als quatre llibres que em van fer llegir llavors com a aquell contacte directe amb el paisatge. Aquest volum recull assajos que he anat escrivint els últims deu anys. La majoria són encàrrecs que m'han fet i que agraeixo de tot cor. Conformen una lectura personal de grans escrits de la nostra tradició literària, que és com dir de la nostra riba al mar de la literatura universal».
With this volume of the series Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science edited by S. Rahman et al. a challenging dialogue is being continued. The series’ first volume argued that one way to recover the connections between logic, philosophy of sciences, and sciences is to acknowledge the host of alternative logics which are currently being developed. The present volume focuses on four key themes. First of all, several chapters unpack the connection between knowledge and epistemology with particular focus on the notion of knowledge as resulting from interaction. Secondly, new epistemological perspectives on linguistics, the foundations of mathematics and logic, physics, biology and law are a subject of analysis. Thirdly, several chapters are dedicated to a discussion of Constructive Type Theory and more generally of the proof-theoretical notion of meaning.Finally, the book brings together studies on the epistemic role of abduction and argumentation theory, both linked to non-monotonic approaches to the dynamics of knowledge.
In linguistics, as in semiotics, iconicity is the conceived similarity between the form of a linguistic sign and its meaning. This book covers all aspects of linguistic iconicity in both spoken and signed languages, including definitions of all the relevant concepts and explanations of significant iconic words and expressions, and brief summaries of the contents and main proposals of 30 significant works in the history of iconicity research. It also provides definitions and exemplifications of the principles governing linguistic iconicity and brief overviews of iconic words and expressions in 11 language families and in more than 50 spoken and signed languages all over the world. The book contains 678 entries and more than 8,500 examples drawn from 400 languages, and will appeal to scholars and students interested in general linguistics, the history of linguistics, language typology, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and semiotics.
This is the first comprehensive study of the relationship between Retranslation and Reception. New translations always reveal a changing interest in authors and their work, and this book explores this phenomenon through a wide variety of case studies of literary reception.
Engaging with pre-feminist and male-authored crime literature, Resisting Invisibility offers a comparative reading of women's bodies as represented in Spanish crime literature from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. Utilizing the twin concepts of visibility and invisibility, the book establishes a genealogy of differing viewpoints regarding women's positions in these narratives, before and after the birth of the modern Spanish female detective. This examination of the politics of female visibility expands our understanding of the aesthetic regimes that have governed the female body from the early phases of the genre's evolution. While most scholars understand the feminization of the ...
This volume approaches the interaction of evidentiality with some other related categories, such as modality and mirativity, from an innovative angle: its connection to informational configuration. The aim of this book is to analyze the impact of shared knowledge on TAME categories as well as to explore its reflection on different verb choices. It provides an innovative theoretical view as well as a robust typological, crosslinguistic perspective.
El mite de Faust es basa en la figura d'un alquimista alemany dels segles XV i XVI. Aquest personatge es caracteritza per l'avidesa de viure, el terror al més enllà i la presència del diable en la seva vida. Goethe va convertir Faust en l'obra de la seva vida, amb un desenvolupament canviant en funció de les pròpies circumstàncies.Estructurada en dues parts, el Faust de Goethe parteix d'un pacte amb el diable i arrela en els neguits de l'home per l'enriquiment personal, la recerca de la felicitat i el desig de donar sentit ple a la vida. Després de quasi cinquanta anys de feina, el Faust de Goethe fa fracassar el mateix diable perquè, malgrat les culpes que el personatge acumula en la consciència, Faust se salva. En el pla de Déu, ve a dir Goethe, estan previstos els fracassos i errors de l'individu, però també les seves accions i qualitats positives. A la versió en paper propostes de treball d'Isidor Cònsul.
Linguistic Landscape in the Spanish-speaking World is the first book dedicated to languages in the urban space of the Spanish-speaking world filling a gap in the extensive research that highlights the richness and complexity of Spanish Linguistic Landscapes. This book provides scholars with an instrument to access a variety of studies in the field within a monolingual or multilingual setting from a theoretical, sociolinguistic and pragmatic perspective. The works contained in this volume aim to answer questions such as, how the linguistic landscape of certain territories includes new discourses that, ultimately, contribute to a fairer society; how the linguistic landscape of minority or low-income communities can enforce changes on language policy and who determines advertising planning; how these decisions are made and how these decisions affect vendors, customers, and the general public alike. All in all, this collective volume uncovers the voices of minority groups within the communities under study.
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