Chapter 8, by María Isabel González Cruz, “Interdisciplinarity in Romance Fiction”, aptly closes the volume by illustrating through a wide range of examples how the chosen corpus can be approached from the perspectives of Sociolinguistics, Pragmatics or Applied Linguistics, and how the conclusions extracted from these particular novels can be clearly applicable to other geographical or cultural areas experienced through similar cultural encounters. (236)
This is a version in English of a chapter which appeared earlier in the volume in Spanish. In her review of the volume, Paloma Fresno Calleja states that: