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The editors and fourteen other research linguists discuss--in English and in Spanish--the African influence on Caribbean phonology, dominant sociolinguistic attitudes in Puerto Rico, and historico-legal aspects of bilingualism in colonial Hispanic America.

La gramática no está para fastidiar e incordiar, sino para allanar y simplificar el camino del aprendizaje de los idiomas. Es la base que nos da seguridad y aplomo. Por fin vas a dominar cuestiones gramaticales básicas de la lengua inglesa que te parecían imposibles de entender. Presentadas sin artificios ni mareantes galimatías. Simplificación y claridad serán las guías que afiancen tu inglés de manera seria para que lo hables y escribas con soltura y confianza. Aquí tenemos por fin, al alcance de todos, la Gramática inglesa comparada con la española. Delfín Carbonell está...

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...

LOVE In The Taming of the Shrew, Katharina learns to love Petruchio only after she has learnt to be an obedient wife. Romeo and Juliet’s love is destined to end in tragedy. In Twelfth Night, love is romantic but also painful, while in Othello love turns into jealousy. And in the final story, Antony and Cleopatra’s passionate love has tragic consequences. Dossiers: The Life of William Shakespeare Courtship and Marriage in Elizabethan Times