Itipurú y el monstruo del océano

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.

Provides Spanish and English translations for thousands of medical terms, along with introductions to pronunciation and grammar, and advice on interviews, symptoms, tests, diagnoses, specialized words and phrases, and common verb forms.

Designed to help the reader become more proficient at communicating in Spainsh about the tourist trade and the hospitality industry.

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...