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Desata tu creatividad: los desafíos de escritura de ChatGPT al descubierto
by Sophie RossDa rienda suelta a tu creatividad con el poder de la inteligencia artificial en «Desata tu creatividad: los desafíos de escritura de ChatGPT al descubierto». Esta completa guía ofrece una perspectiva única sobre el uso de ChatGPT de OpenAI para mejorar tu proceso de escritura, y te proporciona una gran variedad de consejos prácticos y propuestas generados por la IA para escritores de todos los niveles. Desde la exploración de distintos géneros de escritura hasta la creación de personajes y tramas cautivadores, este libro lo abarca todo. Aprende a superar el bloqueo del escritor con estrategias innovadoras y utiliza la IA para reavivar tu chispa creativa. Descubre cómo afinar las respuestas de ChatGPT, adaptar los estímulos a tu voz personal y combinar estímulos para enriquecer la escritura. El libro también hace hincapié en la importancia de las comunidades de escritores y de compartir tu trabajo, con ideas para aprender de las experiencias de los demás con ChatGPT. Tanto si eres un escritor experimentado en busca de nueva inspiración como un principiante que explora el ámbito de la escritura creativa, «Desata tu creatividad: los desafíos de escritura de ChatGPT al descubierto» es tu guía. Embárcate en este viaje y deja que la IA transforme tu proceso de escritura para siempre.
Desayuno en Tiffany
by Truman Capote"No entregues nunca tu corazón a un ser salvaje porque, si lo haces, se vuelve más y más fuerte hasta que adquiere la fuerza suficiente para volver al bosque o volar hacia un árbol. Y luego, a otro más alto hasta que desaparece en el cielo."Holly Golightly es, tal vez, el personaje más cautivante creado por Truman Capote. Atractiva sin ser linda, tras haber rechazado una carrera de actriz en Hollywood se convierte en una de las figuras de la Nueva York más sofisticada, tomando cócteles por las noches, saliendo con hombres adinerados y rompiendo corazones. Mezcla de picardía e inocencia, de astucia y autenticidad, Holly se contenta con vivir el presente, sin mencionar su pasado y sin aferrarse a nada ni a nadie. Pero, pese al glamour que la rodea, soñando siempre con ese paraíso de lujo que representa la joyería Tiffany, de a poco revela una personalidad mucho menos resplandeciente.
The Descendants of Cain
by Ji-moon Suh Sun-won Hwang Julie Pickering J. SuhHwang Sun-won, perhaps the most beloved and respected Korean writer of the 20th century, based this extraordinary novel on his own experiences in his North Korean home village between the end of World War II and the eve of the Korean War when Korea had been divided into North and South by its two "liberators" - the United States and the Soviet Union. In this story the Soviet-backed communist party, using the promise of land reform, sets people at each other's throat. Portrayed here is an entire community caught in the political and social firestorm that brings out the selfishness, cruelty and ignorance of simple people, but also shows their loyalty and nobility. Compelling here, too, is a heroine who represents the "eternally feminine" for all Korean men, and the setting, the harsh political, psychic and physical landscape of rural postwar North Korea rarely glimpsed by the outside world. Hwang Sun-won is an artist of consummate delicacy and subtlety, and his writing is marked by keen psychological insight and steely asceticism. While three collections of his short stories have appeared in Hong Kong and the West, "The Descendants of Cain" is the first English translation of a Hwang Sun-won novel.
The Descent of the Imagination: Postromantic Culture in the Later Novels of Thomas Hardy
by Kevin Z. MooreThe Descent of the Imagination places Thomas Hardy's writing within the context of nineteenth-century fiction writing as a genre. Moore therefore regards his examination of Hardy's work as a form of archaeology as well as a genealogy of the romantic figure in fiction, from Wordsworth through Hardy. The book provides a new interpretation of Hardy's method of composition and uses new source material that will interest Hardy scholars. It offers an original view of the novelist that argues that his work, especially his later writings, were a deliberate rewriting of romanticism.
Descolonizar la mente: La política lingüística de la literatura africana
by Ngugi wa Thiong'oUn compendio de los temas centrales de la obra del autor: la confrontación entre el neocolonialismo y la clase trabajadora, y su reflejo en la cultura africana. Descolonizar la mente es una referencia ineludible en el debate lingüístico que tiene lugar en el marco de los estudios poscoloniales. Reúne cuatro conferencias que el autor realizó entre 1981 y 1985, cuyo hilo conductor no es solo una reflexión sobre el papel de la lengua en la construcción de la identidad nacional, cultural, social e histórica, y su función en la descolonización, sino también sobre los acontecimientos vitales que han contribuido a elaborar el pensamiento del autor. En última instancia, Ngugi wa Thiong'o -escritor, pensador, humanista y exiliado- concibe este libro como una declaración de intenciones: en la medida en que la lengua materna es un aspecto crucial de la propia identidad, cree necesario despedirse del inglés y utilizar el kikuyu como su principal lengua de creación literaria. La presente edición contiene un prólogo de Marta Sofía López Rodríguez, reputada especialista en literatura africana y estudios postcoloniales. La crítica ha dicho...«Un clásico controvertido.»Gayatri Spivak «Ngugi es el escritor africano más célebre. Ofrece ni más ni menos que un nuevo camino para la literatura africana.»British Book News «En la cima de sus logros como artista de gran imaginación, la decisión del autor keniano de escribir en kikuyu es realmente valiente.»The Guardian
Describing and Explaining Grammar and Vocabulary in ELT: Key Theories and Effective Practices (ESL & Applied Linguistics Professional Series)
by Dilin LiuLanguage description plays an important role in language learning/teaching because it often determines what specific language forms, features, and usages are taught and how. A good understanding of language description is vital for language teachers and material writers and should constitute an important part of their knowledge. This book provides a balanced treatment of both theory and practice. It focuses on some of the most important and challenging grammar and vocabulary usage questions. Using these questions as examples, it shows how theory can inform practice and how grammar and vocabulary description and explanation can be made more effective and engaging. Part I describes and evaluates the key linguistic theories on language description and teaching. Part II discusses and gives specific examples of how challenging grammar and vocabulary issues can be more effectively described and explained; each chapter focuses on one or more specific grammar and vocabulary. An annotated list of useful free online resources (online corpora and websites) for grammar and vocabulary learning and teaching, and a glossary provide helpful information.
Describing Discourse: A Practical Guide to Discourse Analysis
by Nicola WoodsFor anyone approaching Discourse Analysis for the first time, theory means little when it is not related to actual knowledge and experience of language in use. Describing Discourse takes the unique approach of introducing discourse studies through the hands-on analysis of linguistic data. The book introduces students to specific discourses constructed for particular purposes, for example, from the domains of advertising, law, medicine and education. Each chapter provides examples, exercises and commentary designed to develop the analytical abilities needed in describing the characteristic forms and typical functions of different discourses. Describing Discourse provides the ideal entry into the study of discourse for students new to the subject.
Describing Prescriptivism: Usage guides and usage problems in British and American English
by Ingrid Tieken-Boon van OstadeDescribing Prescriptivism provides a topical and thought-provoking analysis of linguistic prescriptivism in British and American English, from a historical as well as present-day perspective. Focusing on usage guides and usage problems, the book takes a three-fold approach to present an in-depth analysis of the topic, featuring: a detailed study of the advice provided in usage guides over the years; an authoritative comparison of this advice with actual usage as recorded in British and American corpora, including the HUGE (Hyper Usage Guide of English) database – developed specifically to enable this line of study – as well as more mainstream corpora such as COCA, COHA and the BNC; a close analysis of the attitudes to particular usage problems among the general public, based on surveys distributed online through the "Bridging the Unbridgeable" research project’s blog.* With extensive case studies to illustrate and support claims throughout, this comprehensive study is key reading for students and researchers of prescriptivism, the history of English and sociolinguistics. *Found at https://bridgingtheunbridgeable.com/
Describing Spoken English: An Introduction
by Charles W. KreidlerDescribing Spoken English provides a practical and descriptive introduction to the pronunciation of contemporary English. It presumes no prior knowledge of phonetics and phonology.Charles Kreidler describes the principal varieties of English in the world today. Whilst concentrating on the phonological elements they share, the author sets out specific differences as minor variations on a theme. Although theoretically orientated towards generative phonology, theory is minimal and the book is clear, comprehensive and accessible to undergraduate and postgraduate students of linguistics and English Language. Numerous exercises are included to encourage further study.
Describing Verb Valency
by Mário Alberto PeriniThe elaboration of linguistic theories depends on the existence of adequate descriptions of particular languages; otherwise theories will be poorly grounded on empirical data. This book starts from theoretical points of wide acceptance among linguists and goes on to present a descriptive metalanguage, able to express the facts of verb valency, which constitute one of the core areas in linguistic description. Most of the data come from an extensive survey under way of the valency of Portuguese verbs; but the present work's relevance goes well beyond that, and incorporates a proposal applicable to other European languages, illustrated by the wealth of English examples included in the exposition. Among the topics discussed are the syntactic component of constructions (following here a proposal recently published in Culicover and Jackendoff's Simpler Syntax); delimitation and definition of semantic roles; the role of linking rules and their relation to prototypes; and the connection between linguistic expressions and cognitive units such as frames and schemata. The result is a notational system flexible and robust enough to describe all aspects of verb valency.
The Description of Egypt from Napoleon to Champollion (War, Culture and Society, 1750–1850)
by Tamar SarfattiThis book is the first study in English of the multi-volume set of texts and engravings of the Description of Egypt, a work produced following the three-year-long Egyptian campaign led by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1798. The book challenges the conventional and rather reductive interpretation of the Description that followed Edward Said's Orientalism, as a summation of an orientalist colonial project. It re-centres the Description in the much more complex and dynamic political and intellectual world of France of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century and its colonial aspirations. It follows closely the notes, texts, and illustrations of the contributors to the work, the majority of whom were graduates of the first years of the Polytechnic school in Paris, and the well-documented editing process that continued for almost thirty years, in which France moved from Revolution to Empire and Restoration. It shows the ways in which scholarly traditions and newly acquired skills interplay with Enlightenment texts, contemporary politics, and received ideas about antiquity, and how these were reinterpreted and modified – in texts and illustrations – through the encounter with the physical and social worlds of Ottoman Egypt. Using the rich repository of the Description of Egypt the book demonstrates the contribution of antiquarian methods of research to the emerging disciplines of the social sciences.
Description & Setting (Write Great Fiction)
by Ron RozelleShows writers how to master the challenging and often overlooked subjects of description and setting, offering hands-on action-and-results exercises.
Descriptional Complexity of Formal Systems
by Cezar Câmpeanu Florin Manea Jeffrey ShallitThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Descriptional Complexity of Formal Systems, DCFS 2015, held in Waterloo, ON, Canada, in June 2015. The 23 full papers presented together with 2 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 29 submissions. The subject of the workshop was descriptional complexity. Roughly speaking, this field is concerned with the size of objects in various mathematical models of computation, such as finite automata, pushdown automata, and Turing machines. Descriptional complexity serves as a theoretical representation of physical realizations, such as the engineering complexity of computer software and hardware. It also models similar complexity phenomena in other areas of computer science, including unconventional computing and bioinformatics.
Descriptional Complexity of Formal Systems
by Giovanni Pighizzini Cezar CâmpeanuThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Workshop of Descriptional Complexity of Formal Systems 2011, held in Limburg, Germany, in July 2011. The 21 revised full papers presented together with 4 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 54 submissions. The topics covered are automata, grammars, languages and related systems, various measures and modes of operations (e. g. , determinism and nondeterminism); trade-offs between computational models and/or operations; succinctness of description of (finite) objects; state explosion-like phenomena; circuit complexity of Boolean functions and related measures; resource-bounded or structure-bounded environments; frontiers between decidability and undecidability; universality and reversibility; structural complexity; formal systems for applications (e. g. , software reliability, software and hardware testing, modeling of natural languages); nature-motivated (bio-inspired) architectures and unconventional models of computing; Kolmogorov complexity.
Descriptionary (3rd edition)
by Marc MccutcheonAre you exerting your corrugator overmuch trying to remember what to call more than one ferret? This combination of a reverse dictionary and thesaurus groups terms by basic themes, making it easy to find that ferrets in a communal situation constitute a "business." The groups include animals, architecture, clothing, electronics, finance, the human body, language, medicine, the military, music, performing arts, the physical sciences, religion, sports, tools, transportation, and weapons, with categories such as British terms, Internet chatting, and street slang added for this edition. The book is rounded out with an index that helps readers locate words they think they might know, and a list of words and expressions that they really should know. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Descriptions in Context (Routledge Library Editions: Semantics and Semiology #4)
by Cleo A. CondoravdiFirst published in 1997, this book focuses on the semantics of definite and indefinite descriptions — taking the presuppositional theory of definiteness and indefiniteness proposed by Heim as a starting point. It seeks to show that there exists a special type of indefinites that have an interpretation commonly associated with definites. It further argues that the felicity conditions associated with indefinite NP’s can vary and develops a more fine-grained theory of novelty within the framework of File Change Semantics. More generally, this work can be seen as providing an empirical argument in favour of a dynamic theory of meaning and against the more traditional truth-conditional theory.
Descriptions, Translations and the Caribbean
by Rosanna Masiola Renato TomeiThis book offers a new perspective on the role played by colonial descriptions and translation of Caribbean plants in representations of Caribbean culture. Through thorough examination of Caribbean phytonyms in lexicography, colonization, history, songs and translation studies, the authors argue that the Westernisation of vernacular phytonyms, while systematizing the nomenclature, blurred and erased the cultural tradition of Caribbean plants and medicinal herbs. Means of transmission and preservation of this oral culture was in the plantation songs and herb vendor songs. Musical creativity is a powerful form of resistance, as in the case of Reggae music and the rise of Rastafarians, and Bob Marley's 'untranslatable' lyrics. This book will be of interest to scholars of Caribbean studies and to linguists interested in pushing the current Eurocentric boundaries of translation studies.
Descriptive Archaeoastronomy and Ancient Indian Chronology
by Amitabha GhoshThis book presents the basic fundamentals of descriptive archaeoastronomy and its application to the astronomical descriptions found in ancient Indian scriptures. Archaeoastronomy is a branch of positional astronomy that helps to determine the epochs of ancient astronomical alignments and special astronomical events. In this book, only the descriptions of special stellar alignments and events found in ancient texts can identify the antiquity of the descriptions. India possesses a large volume of ancient scriptures like Vedas and Puranas which contain many astronomical descriptions as in ancient India positional astronomy was well developed. The antiquities of these texts are determined through archaeoastronomical techniques. Major events like Mahabharata War are dated and using these dates a chronology of ancient India is determined. The astronomically determined chronology is compared with the results from various archaeological, palaeoclimatological, geological and genealogical investigations of ancient India. This introductory book interests readers interested in unveiling the mystery involved with the protohistory of this ancient civilization.
Descriptive Metadata for Television: An End-to-End Introduction
by Mike Cox Ellen Mulder Linda TadicDescriptive Metadata for Television is a comprehensive introduction for television professionals that need to understand metadata's purpose and technology. This easy-to-read book translates obscure technical to hands-on language understandable by real people.
Descriptive Syntax and the English Verb (Routledge Library Editions: Syntax Ser.)
by David KilbyIntended for advanced students and researchers in linguistics, Descriptive Syntax and the English Verb, first published in 1984, focuses on the syntax of the English verb and notions of tense/aspect, transivity, passive, phrasal verb constructions, nominalisations and complement sentence types are explored. These constructions are shown t
Descriptor Revision
by Sven Ove HanssonThis book provides a critical examination of how the choice of what to believe is represented in the standard model of belief change. In particular the use of possible worlds and infinite remainders as objects of choice is critically examined. Descriptors are introduced as a versatile tool for expressing the success conditions of belief change, addressing both local and global descriptor revision. The book presents dynamic descriptors such as Ramsey descriptors that convey how an agent's beliefs tend to be changed in response to different inputs. It also explores sentential revision and demonstrates how local and global operations of revision by a sentence can be derived as a special case of descriptor revision. Lastly, the book examines revocation, a generalization of contraction in which a specified sentence is removed in a process that may possibly also involve the addition of some new information to the belief set.
Descriptosaurus: Genres: Action And Adventure
by Alison WilcoxDescriptosaurus: Ghost Stories builds on the vocabulary and descriptive phrases introduced in the original bestselling Descriptosaurus and, within the context of ghost stories, develops the structure and use of the words and phrases to promote colourful cinematic writing. This essential guide will enable children to take their writing to the next level, combine their descriptions of setting and character and show how the two interact. Children can then experiment with their own ghost stories, armed with the skills, techniques and vocabulary necessary to describe their ghostly scenes in a way that allows the reader to feel the characters’ fear and visualise the source of their terror within the setting. This new system also provides a contextualised alternative to grammar textbooks and will assist children in acquiring, understanding and applying the grammar they will need to improve their writing, both creative and technical.
Descriptosaurus: Genres: Action And Adventure
by Alison WilcoxDescriptosaurus: Action & Adventure builds on the vocabulary and descriptive phrases introduced in the original bestselling Descriptosaurus and, within the context of adventure stories, develops the structure and use of the words and phrases to promote colourful cinematic writing. This essential guide will enable children to take their writing to the next level, combine their descriptions of setting and character and show how the two interact. Children can then experiment with their own adventure stories, armed with the skills, techniques and vocabulary necessary to describe their action scenes in a way that allows the reader to feel the characters’ fear and excitement, and visualise the action within the setting. This new system also provides a contextualised alternative to grammar textbooks and will assist children in acquiring, understanding and applying the grammar they will need to improve their writing, both creative and technical.
El descubrimiento de la pintura
by Jorge EdwardsEl retrato de vida de un personaje sensible al arte en un Chile cargado de prejuicios. Jorge Rengifo Mira, Rengifonfo o Fonfo, para los más cercanos, trabaja vendiendo artículos de cerrajería en la Sociedad Comercial Saavedra Balfour, aunque su gran pasión es la pintura. Es un artista de fin de semana: los domingos suele viajar en micro con su caja de pinturas y su atril a cuestas hasta los faldeos cordilleranos de Santiago para solazarse y retratar el paisaje. Pero su singularidad es incomprendida, y su familia y amigos más bien lo ignoran o se ríen a sus espaldas. El descubrimiento de la pintura retrata la vida de un personaje sensible al arte en un Chile cargado de prejuicios. Una novela inteligente, de dulce ironía y hasta catártica cuando el destino de Rengifo da una sorpresiva vuelta de tuerca.