Manual de linguistica del hablar

The Manual presents the state of the art of the research about discourse and communication within the Romance languages.It offers introductory articles which explain in a simple and clear way the current research topics of a broad variety of disciplines like Linguistics, Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis, Communication Theory, Text Linguistics and Philology. The authors of the Manual collectively explain complex theoretical problems concerning communication and discourse, and texts as its products.The contrastive descriptions contain examples in different Romance languages which show the outreach of the theoretical approaches and address a public with interests in a variety of disciplines and languages.Furthermore, it shows possibilities of application and transfer of the research about communication in different professional contexts.