La puerta de la esperanza

Seleccionar mis cuentos… Qué difícil, cuando suelo decir que todas mis criaturas, incluso las menos dotadas, son para mí igualmente queridas. Pero la vida exige escoger, y este asunto literario, también. Todos estos relatos parten de hechos reales, de ahí los nombres propios que aparecen, con desarrollos que solo en una mínima proporción son ficticios. Esa mínima proporción que les permite pasar por cuentos y no por crónicas. Aunque la realidad de la vida pueda ser tan asombrosa o más que cualquier ficción imaginada. La selección se corona con una novelita corta “Juan Palomo...

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.

"Oye Broder, Get a Load of These Palabras!"They're all Spanglish words -- and you can hear them on the streets of Miami, Los Angeles, Nueva York, and lots of otherciudadesacross the country where English and Spanish seem to blend and bend into a mind-boggling, veryfonihybrid of two different languages -- or are they sodiferente?Mira:lonchando:Having lunch. "I'mlonchando,I don't wanna talk to him now."yogur:Yogurt. "Este yogurdoesn't really hit the spot when you'relonchando.Maybe I need to order ajambergueand some fries."bacuncliner:Vacuum cleaner. "Aye!I think thebacunclinerjust swallowed my...

Impartial, modern, and friendly, this book introduces readers to the civilization and culture of Latin America-- from the most obscure beginnings to the present--and at the same time provides them with opportunities to improve their listening, speaking and writing skills. Comprehensive and chronological in approach, it offers well-researched coverage that goes beyond historical facts to include aspects of modern interest, sociology, economy, politics, philosophy, literature, arts, and communication. It covers the traditions in all of Spanish America--"Mesoamerica" and the Caribbean, as well...