Conversacion y repaso/ Conversation and Review

The highly successful intermediate Spanish three volume program provides instructors with a wealth of materials unified in content and offering a variety of teaching and learning options for successful outcomes. Students benefit from the abundant grammar and conversation practice in all three volumes, and learn to approach a topic or issue from multiple viewpoints. Conversacion y repaso is the grammar and conversational text designed to be used with one or both of the accompanying readers, Civilizacion y cultura and Literatura y arte. The purpose of the text is to review and expand upon the...

This book offers an in-depth study of the internal structures of Popol Vuh, the Sacred Book of the Maya-Quiche people of Guatemala, and of the ways in which the main characters of this text are configured. This is accompanied by a similar, comparative analysis of the three novels widely known in the Hispanic world as the Banana Trilogy, written betweem 1950 and 1960 by the winner of the 1967 Nobel Prize for Literature, Miguel Angel Asturias. By showing a direct relationship between the macro-structure of Popol Vuh and its literary devices (including character configuration) and those of the...

This innovative textbook fulfills the needs of upper-division Spanish students who are pursuing degrees in the health professions, plan to become medical interpreters or just want to improve their proficiency in the language. It provides multiple opportunities to learn vocabulary related to the medical field, reviews hard-to-understand grammatical concepts, describes health-related cultural competence and presents opportunities to discuss issues of concern about the health of Hispanic communities in the US and abroad.

Todos están obsesionados con Unison, la red social que te conoce mejor que tú mismo, es decir, todos los que pueden permitírselo. Y Mistletoe, la chica de la trenza azul que sobrevive en Little Saigon, el suburbio marginal separado de la ciudad superior, no puede permitírselo. Así que, cuando ayuda a un desconocido con problemas en las peligrosas calles del Little Saigon no imagina que abrirá el contacto entre ambos mundos. El joven es Ambrose Truax, el heredero del privilegiado imperio Unison. Ambos proceden de ambientes opuestos, pero descubrirán que comparten los mismos sueños...

Este libro sobre las funciones y características de la cortesía valorizadora en la conversación coloquial española concluye que los españoles dedican mucho esfuerzo a la constitución y refuerzo cortés de la imagen y que al hacerlo consiguen también la valorización de su propia imagen, lo que repercute en beneficio de su éxito comunicativo y social.