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Lusosexby Susan Canty Quinlan; Fernando Arenas
University of Minnesota Press 2002; US$ 70.50Challenging static notions of sexualities within the Portuguese-speaking world, these essays expand our understanding of the multiplicity of differences and marginalized subjectivities that fall under the intersections of sexuality, gender, and race. more...
Utopias of Othernessby Fernando Arenas
University of Minnesota Press 2003; US$ 67.50In Utopias of Otherness, Fernando Arenas considers Portugal and Brazil, both subject to the economic, political, and cultural forces of postmodern globalization. Arenas analyzes responses to these trends in contemporary writers including José Saramago, Caio Fernando Abreu, Maria Isabel Barreno, Vergílio Ferreira, Clarice Lispector, and Maria Gabriela Llansol, ultimately revealing how these writers have redefined the concept of nationhood. more...
Prosodiesby Sónia Frota; Marina Vigário; Maria João Freitas
Walter de Gruyter, Inc. 2005; US$ 151.00Prosodies, in the broad Firthian sense, covers phenomena that extend over stretches of segmental and featural units that must be examined with respect to their interaction with other features to fully appreciate their role in the phonetics and phonology o more...
Subject Positions and Interfacesby João Costa
Walter de Gruyter, Inc. 2004; US$ 137.20European Portuguese, like other Romance languages, display a great amount of word order variation. Out of the six logically possible permutations between Subject, Verb and Complement in a transitive sentence, five are possible: SVO, VSO, VOS, OVS and OSV. more...
Traços de mudança e de permanência em editoriais de jornais pernambucanosby Valéria Severina Gomes
Walter de Gruyter, Inc. 2010; US$ 124.00This book deals with the Press in Brazil in its historical, social and cultural context, with particular attention being paid to the strategies of printed written communication. The author reconstructs the constellation of texts into which the discursive tradition of the editorial is integrated. The emphasis is placed on the description of the features of both linguistic and extra-linguistic change and continuity which characterise leading articles published in Brazilian Portuguese in the 19th century so that the relationship between the historicity of the language and the text is impressed on the reader. more...
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