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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.
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.
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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.
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