México - Como México no hay dos

This intensive course is expressly designed to lead the adult beginner to a comprehensive knowledge of Spanish. The course gives balanced attention to the four key language skills: the development of listening comprehension and speaking skills is supported by quality audio materials recorded by native speakers, while answer keys support written work and grammar-acquisition exercises, and facilitate independent study. Authentic written materials develop important receptive skills and encourage the transition to independent reading. - Based on a style of Spanish easily understood by most...

This book offers an in-depth study of the internal structures of Popol Vuh, the Sacred Book of the Maya-Quiche people of Guatemala, and of the ways in which the main characters of this text are configured. This is accompanied by a similar, comparative analysis of the three novels widely known in the Hispanic world as the Banana Trilogy, written betweem 1950 and 1960 by the winner of the 1967 Nobel Prize for Literature, Miguel Angel Asturias. By showing a direct relationship between the macro-structure of Popol Vuh and its literary devices (including character configuration) and those of the...

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.

Jordi Bas i Vidal es licenciado en Derecho por la Universidad de Barcelona, donde también cursó estudios de Filosofía y Letras. Es autor de varios libros relacionados con la onomástica, entre los que se encuentra Els noms propis catalans.