Historias

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...

Así Me Gusta is a new three-level course for learners of Spanish. It focuses on communication needs, presents vocabulary and grammar in context, and deals with the multicultural aspects of the Spanish language. The course involves students emotionally in their learning process and is fully endorsed by the Insitituto Cervantes. Así Me Gusta fulfils the requirements of the Common European Framework of reference for languages and prepares students for the DELE exams.

What cities were there in early 16th-century Spain? With how many inhabitants? Were they fortified? And how many leagues apart were they? Those are the questions that Ferdinand Columbus tried to answer in his Vocabulary containing the names of the places and kingdoms of Spain. The present edition reconstructs the "cosmographic" endeavor of Christopher Columbus’ youngest son based on two codices from the Biblioteca Capitular y Colombina of Seville.