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Writers and editors of Spanish have long needed an authoritative guide to written language usage, similar to "The MLA Style Manual" and "The Chicago Manual of Style". And here it is! This reference guide provides comprehensive information on how the Spanish language is copyedited for publication. This book covers these major areas: language basics: capitalization, word division, spelling, and punctuation; language conventions: abbreviations, professional and personal titles, names of organizations, and nationalities; bibliographic format, particularly how Spanish differs from English; Spanish language forms of classical authors' names; literary and grammatical terminology; linguistic terminology; biblical names and allusions; and, a dictionary of grammatical doubts, including usage, grammatical constructions of particular words and phrases, verbal irregularities, and gender variations.David William Foster is Chair of the Department of Languages and Literature and Regents' Professor of Spanish, Interdisciplinary Humanities, and Women's Studies at Arizona State University. Daniel Altamiranda has taught at the Universidad de Buenos Aires and Arizona State University. Carmen de Urioste is Assistant Professor of Spanish at Arizona State University.

Book details

Book category Books in English Language Language: reference & general Usage & grammar guides

• Full title: Writer's Reference Guide to Spanish
• Author: David William Foster, Daniel Altami randa, Carmen De Urioste
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 284
• EAN: 9780292725126
• ISBN: 0292725124
• ID: 04873150
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Weight: 396 g
• Dimensions: 155 × 231 × 22 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. January 2000

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