Iberoamérica

"Fue la primera novela escrita por Miguel Angel Asturias y sigue siendo la mas famosa y la mas leida. Ocupa un lugar privilegiado entre las 'novelas de la dictadura', que han llegado a constituir un genero en la literatura hispanoamericana. Esta novela representa una exploracion de la condicion humana percibida a traves del lente distorsionador de una oscura dictadura centroamericana, y es una de las primeras novelas que intenta y logra una revolucion del lenguaje literario, explotando la relacion entre el mito y el lenguaje hallando el modo de revolucionar el aspecto formal del texto dentro...

One year just after Christmas when Ximena is thirteen, she overhears her parents talking - a conversation she is not supposed to hear. She catches the word, "father," but wonders why they are whispering? Federico is the only father Ximena has ever known since he and her mom married six years ago. Of course, she knows she has a biological father, but her mom never talks about him - and Ximena never asks. All she knows is that he is "away" and doesn't live near them. But after overhearing her parents' discussion, she starts to wonder why she has no contact with him. At the same time, too, life...

The Workbook Activities section, correlated with the text lessons, offers: An array of writing activities that reinforce the structures and vocabulary Reading comprehension passages The Laboratory Activities section accompanies the Lab Audio CD Program, and includes: listening, speaking, and writing practice pronunciation exercises textbook dialogues The Video Activities section accompanies the ¡Hola amigos! video, and includes: Preparacin pre-viewing activities Comprensin post-viewing comprehension Ampliacin post-viewing expansion

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.