NTC's Spanish Grammar

Conversar en español B1 B2 es un manual destinado a universitarios que estudian español como segunda lengua y que, habiendo adquirido las competencias comunicativas básicas, necesitan reforzar la fluidez expresiva, el léxico y la adecuación a distintas situaciones cotidianas. Está dirigido a estudiantes y profesores de los niveles B1 y B2 del Marco Común Europeo de Referencia. La obra se fundamenta en el principio de que es posible sistematizar la enseñanza de los modelos conversacionales a partir de las funciones básicas que estructuran los discursos cotidianos. Los temas propuestos ...

Caló Orbis examines a Chicano language variety from a historical, social, ideological, and theoretical framework. It gathers information, on how the urban Chicano often reduces his/her experience into thematic contents of family, home, employment, education, religion. This book takes the reader into a semiotic point of view in order to bring a deeper awareness of the symbolic activity between language style and the speaker's attitude toward the urban experience. The perspective maintained is epistemological in the broadest sense, in that the inquiry includes lexical, poetical, philosophical...

* Approach reflects a belief in the value of discourse analysis, pragmatics, and sociolinguistics in the fields of second language acquisition and applied linguistics. * Goal is to train teachers to teach the Spanish language as a communicative system rather than as a set of grammatical rules--therefore it includes relevant information on Spanish pragmatics and sociolinguistics. * Written entirely in Spanish. * Each chapter includes review questions and exercises. * CD-ROM integrates samples of the course material so that the readers can see and hear native speaker examples of aspects of...

This book was born out of the idea that domain-specific knowledge has two major dimensions, since, on the one hand, peer-to-peer communication is primarily intended to further research within specific disciplines, while, on the other, domain-external, asymmetric communication of ‘filtered’ knowledge caters to different types of lay-audiences. Collectively, the chapters in the volume take the reader on a journey through knowledge communication and knowledge (re)presentation strategies that are able to successfully disseminate and communicate. The domains under scrutiny are medicine and...