Vistazos: Un curso breve

This highly innovative beginning Spanish text is both task-based (requiring students to use Spanish to complete specific goals or tasks) and content-based, including readings from a variety of disciplines. ¿Sabías que...? represents the practical application of the theories and research presented in Lee and VanPatten's methods text, Making Communicative Language Teaching Happen (a natural companion volume for instructors using this text). The new edition is accompanied by a new CD-ROM, a new Online Learning Center, and more!

Three boys. Three stories. And one sport that unites them - and maybe not the one you'd expect.For as long as they can remember, best friends Mario and Carlos have talked about playing professional baseball one day like one of their idols, Rafael Soriano of the Yankees. Though they have only played the game on the streets of the neighborhood, growing up the boys often repeated the same conversation about someday wearing the pinstriped uniform and giving post-game interviews to the press - in English and Spanish! It was wishful thinking, to be sure, but common for many young boys raised in the ...

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...

El desarrollo de la ciencia tiene como uno de sus aspectos fundamentales la codificacion lingueistica por cuanto la lengua se constituye en la base de su expresion y de su comunicacion. Tomando como punto de partida la importancia del sistema lingueistico como vehiculo de comunicacion de la ciencia, la Red Tematica Lengua y ciencia reune 28 grupos de investigacion de seis paises diferentes (Alemania, Austria, Canada, Espana, Italia y Portugal) que desde las mas diversas perspectivas comparten en sus lineas de investigacion la interseccion entre estos dos parametros. La publicacion que se...

Über die reine Inspiration hinaus können Film und Literatur die gesellschaftliche Entwicklung in all ihren Grenzen aufzeigen und ausdrücken. Der vorliegende Band versammelt Beiträge, die dem deutschen Kino und der zeitgenössischen deutschen Literatur gewidmet sind. Untersucht werden darin die Serie Holocaust – Die Geschichte der Familie Weiss (1978), die Filme Der Wolfsmensch (1941) und Unter Verdacht (1944/1945) sowie Christa Wolfs Medea (1996), der Roman Las Casas vor Karl V. von Reinhold Schneider (1938), Eugen Ruges In Zeiten des abnehmenden Lichts (2011) und Uwe Tellkamps Der Turm ...