El libro sin autor

Collectes the contents presented in the class: Mitos y realidades sobre el español en el Uruguay dictated at the Facultad de Información y Comunicación, Universidad de la República.

An exciting new entry in the beginning Spanish market, Entrevistas (Interviews) fulfills the market demand for an innovative treatment of culture within a four-skills approach. A manageable fifteen chapters, Entrevistas has as its principal objective the development of communicative language proficiency. Entrevistas sets itself apart from other first-year Spanish texts through the integration and treatment of authentic (real) speech samples in the text, video, audio, and website.

"This volume (written entirely in Spanish, with English abstracts) contains 17 studies on a variety of aspects of Spanish in the United States, including topics such as: a socio-demographic analysis of the US Hispanic population, bilingual first language acquisition of English and Spanish, cross-generational maintenance of Spanish, steps toward a dialectology of US Spanish, dialect contact in the United States, conceptual convergence with English in the speech of US Hispanics, Spanglish as an identity marker, language policies in the US health delivery system to Hispanics, and several...

"Explica el significado y evolución de cada palabra y cada acepción por siglos, con la autoridad de más de 1500 autores medievales, renacentistas, modernos y contemporáneos, la comprobación de sesenta dicionarios preacadémicos, del célebre Diccionario de Autoridades de 1726 (6 vols.), de las dieciocho ediciones del Diccionario Académico (1780 a 1956) y de más de quinientos diccionarios y glosarios de especialidades" (t.p.).