Politische und mediale Diskurse

Learning Spanish can be a difficult process but ¡Vívelo! makes it easier by offering a fresh approach. It emphasizes what readers know and can readily do with the language. The book includes activities that are designed to encourage readers to make cultural comparisons and connections. These activities, such as signature searches, information gap and jigsaw, are incorporated throughout the chapters to encourage a better comprehension of meaning with a purpose. ¡Vívelo! also offers metacognitive strategies to facilitate processing of advanced structures. The heavy emphasis on content and...

La rica tradición épica castellana, de la que dan abundante testimonio las prosificaciones de las crónicas medievales, alcanzó tempranamente su cota más alta con el "Poema de Mio Cid". En su prólogo, José Jesús de Bustos Tovar examina los orígenes de la épica castellana, analiza la datación y autoría del manuscrito y estudia su estructura temática y técnica literaria. Lejos del tópico que pretende encarnar en el Cid un inexistente espíritu nacional, el poema «es ante todo la historia de un hombre que recupera su honra por el esfuerzo de su brazo, es decir, la historia de un...

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...

This monograph focuses on modality in Spanish. It presents the theoretical approach to this category formulated by Bohumil Zavadil and, consequently, it analyses its possible application to Spanish. We concentrate on specific areas of the Spanish modal system where two modal meanings combine. Theoretical analyses are combined with corpus-based studies concentrating on the choice of mood or contextual interpretation of selected constructions. We veryfied that areas where two modal meanings meet are a natural part of the Spanish modal system and that the combination of modal meanings has...