Workbook/Laboratory manual t/a Pasajes

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...

Brazil at the crossroads. A debate about the future after eight years of President Lulu's government.

Sobre el proyecto HISPANOLUSO y este libro: El principal objetivo es documentar, organizar y publicar de forma independiente la mayor cantidad posible de palabras, frases y textos sobre situaciones que ayuden a comprender las verdaderas dificultades en la comunicación entre hablantes de español y de portugués brasileño. Eso me ha llevado a definir, comprender y estudiar el fenómeno del “portuñol”. Si bien existen muchos trabajos académicos el objetivo que el Hispanoluso quiere alcanzar esta basado en una aproximación empírica y usando textos, situaciones y definiciones simples y...

A very accurate symbolic representation of the way in which the intellectual as a social role expresses himself in relation to other estates within the medieval world is the exordial miniature of a Milanese Codex, the ms. Biblioteca Nationale Braidense AD XIII 30 (ca. 1400), preserving Petrarch’s moral treatise De remediis utriusque Fortunae. The symbolism of the image refers not only to the diversification of society and the recognition of this diversity as a defining vision of human community, it also casts a special light on the position of the intellectual as a public dignity, as a...