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Drawing on authentic cultural materials ranging from thought-provoking artwork to classic literature and short contemporary films, Retratos: Arte y sociedad en Latinoamérica y España offers a fresh and inspired approach to the teaching of advanced Spanish Composition. In each of the eight thematically-organized chapters, these primary source materials are used to illustrate—to provide a “portrait” of—a historically or culturally important figure in the Hispanic world. These first-hand introductions to such personalities offer students rich opportunities to explore cultural...

A bilingual dictionary with 175,000 entries also offers cultural notes, background information on life in English- and Spanish-speaking countries, and verb tables.

El objetivo de este libro es exponer un método de análisis del discurso centrado en las ideas del emisor pero no ceñido a las ideas de propio discurso, sino a toda la concepción del mundo emisor: al modelo del mundo que ha dirigido la formación de dicho discurso, sobre el cual éste nos dará pistas exactas. Por tanto, no se trata de un tipo de análisis estrictamente lingüístico, sino de un análisis psicolingüístico del discurso, que estudia cómo se relacionan, específicamente, las emisiones lingüísticas completas –los discursos- con la mente del emisor –su conciencia, su...

Approximately 2000 idiomatic expressions are presented in English, with their meanings or equivalents expressed in Spanish.