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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.

"Since the publication of the still very valuable Biblioteca histâorica de la filologâia by Cipriano Muänoz y Manzano, conde de la Viänaza, (Madrid, 1893), our knowledge of the history of the study of the Spanish language has grown considerably, and most manuscript and secondary sources had never been tapped before Hans-Josef Niederehe of the University of Trier courageously undertook the task to bring together any available bibliographical information together with much more recent research findings, scattered in libraries, journals and other places. The resulting Bibliografâia...

"La Constitución establece las grandes líneas del régimen jurídico de la lengua castellana, pero no determina el alcance y los efectos de la oficialidad de las demás lenguas españolas. De forma que quedan abiertas al debate relevantes cuestiones, tales como el deber de conocimiento de las lenguas autonómicas, el uso de las mismas en las instituciones básicas del Estado o el modelo lingüístico en la enseñanza. De estos y otros temas relativos al régimen jurídico constitucional de las lenguas se ocupan, con visiones y argumentos distintos, los estudios de los profesores Jaume...

"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...