Vitamina

One year just after Christmas when Ximena is thirteen, she overhears her parents talking - a conversation she is not supposed to hear. She catches the word, "father," but wonders why they are whispering? Federico is the only father Ximena has ever known since he and her mom married six years ago. Of course, she knows she has a biological father, but her mom never talks about him - and Ximena never asks. All she knows is that he is "away" and doesn't live near them. But after overhearing her parents' discussion, she starts to wonder why she has no contact with him. At the same time, too, life...

This rich textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to the principal concepts and thematic areas of Spanish pragmatics. It is aimed at advanced students of Spanish—upper-level undergraduates and beginning graduate students—who need to hone their language skills for contextually sensitive use of the language. Written entirely in Spanish, with Spanish examples, this volume introduces basic pragmatics, methods of analysis, and new thematic areas such as language and the press and globalization. Theoretical explanations combine with practical exercises in each chapter to help...

Documento del año 2011 en eltema Romanística - Portugués, literatura, cultura general, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Materia: Lingüística - Portugués, Español., Idioma: Español, Resumen: Procedentes de una idéntica raíz etimológica, las lenguas portuguesa y española, como lenguas románicas que son, comparten diversos aspectos lingüísticos en común, tanto en el nivel semántico como estructural, dada la gran similitud tipológica existente entre ambas. Los varios aspectos de similitud, ya sean parciales o totales, se manifiestan con gran contundencia en el nivel...

SPANISH FOR ORAL AND WRITTEN REVIEW is designed to review what beginning students have already learned and add to their knowledge of the language at the intermediate or advanced level.