The Writer's Reference Guide to Spanish - Softcover

Foster, David William; Altamiranda, Daniel; De Urioste, Carmen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0292725124 ISBN 13: 9780292725126

Publisher: University of Texas Press, 2000

Synopsis

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. The 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. A dictionary of grammatical doubts, including usage, grammatical constructions of particular words and phrases, verbal irregularities, and gender variations.

About this title

Review

"The importance of this book ... is indisputable... Its usefulness will apply to an audience far beyond students of Spanish; it will, in fact, become a companion text, like the MLA Style Manual, to a larger audience of users running the gamut from bilingual writers, i.e., fiction writers and journalists, to editors who are unsure about proper usage." --Dick Gerdes, Professor and Chair of Modern and Classical Languages, George Mason University

About the Author

David William Foster is Regents' Professor of Spanish and Women and Gender Studies at Arizona State University, where he also leads the Brazilian Studies Program. Daniel Altamiranda has taught at the Universidad de Buenos Aires and Arizona State University. Carmen de Urioste is Professor of Spanish at Arizona State University.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0292725124
• ISBN 13: 9780292725126
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 284