Vvelo! Beginning Spanish

¡Vívelo! offers a fresh approach to learning the Spanish language. This text emphasizes what readers know and can readily do with the language. The book includes activities that are designed to encourage readers to make cultural comparisons and connections. These activities, such as signature searches, information gap and jigsaw, are incorporated throughout the chapters to encourage a better comprehension of meaning with a purpose. ¡Vívelo! also offers metacognitive strategies to facilitate processing of advanced structures. The heavy emphasis on content and experiential learning empowers ...

A QUE SÍ! is a provocative post-intermediate Spanish conversation book designed to increase students' awareness of Hispanic culture. The text encourages critical thinking while challenging the students' ability to express themselves in Spanish, by providing them with an opportunity for in-depth exploration of relevant contemporary issues. The Fourth Edition presents four main themes around which all the text and supplemental materials revolve: Espacios: Publicos y privados, Encuentros y desencuentros, Patria/Nacion: Acercamientos, and De acá para allá. Each thematic unit is supported by...

Le terme de polyphonie, emprunté à la musique, dénote, en linguistique, le fait qu'un énoncé est susceptible de véhiculer des traces d'autres "voix", "opinions" ou "points de vue" que ceux du locuteur. Les recherches portant sur la polyphonie linguistique visent à identifier les éléments linguistiques observables qui instaurent des constellations polyphoniques. Les analyses strictement linguistiques peuvent servir d'input à des études littéraires et/ou culturelles. Le présent volume donne un aperçu sur la recherche actuelle présentant des analyses strictement linguistiques, des ...

The contributions gathered in this volume investigate the impact of shared knowledge on linguistic structure—whether shared knowledge determines the linguistic form or a given linguistic structure imposes a specific set of information. From an Ibero-Romance perspective, this book supports the necessity of a transversal approach to the grammar/pragmatics interaction.

La recepción entusiasta que Rayuela recibió desde su aparición, en 1963, proyectó a Julio Cortázar a un sostenido reconocimiento internacional. Su imagen de escritor quedó por siempre asociada a las ideas de ruptura, novedad, rechazo del realismo telúrico; y su novela, al estatuto de jalón de la literatura hispanoamericana. Rayuela renovó experimentalmente los cánones de la composición novelística al aunar de manera lúdica un gesto narrativo: la fragmentación, con una heterogeneidad de lenguajes, discursos, géneros y registros que, en su entrevero, producen un efecto de...