Portugués esencial para Dummies

Introduccion a la linguistica hispanica actual: teoria y practica has been specially designed for students of Spanish with little or no linguistic background, who need to understand the key concepts and constructs of Hispanic Linguistics. The book has been carefully crafted to introduce the reader to the main areas of linguistics, both theoretical and applied. General Linguistics, Phonology and Phonetics, Morphology, Syntax, Semantics and Pragmatics, History of the Spanish Language, Language Variation, and Second Language Acquisition are concisely and accurately outlined, providing a...

The Manual presents the state of the art of the research about discourse and communication within the Romance languages. It offers introductory articles which explain in a simple and clear way the current research topics of a broad variety of disciplines like Linguistics, Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis, Communication Theory, Text Linguistics and Philology. The authors of the Manual collectively explain complex theoretical problems concerning communication and discourse, and texts as its products. The contrastive descriptions contain examples in different Romance languages which show the...

La violencia, ese instinto animal arraigado en el hombre desde tiempos remotos, se institucionaliza a través del Estado, poseedor de su monopolio bajo el amparo de la ley, para impartirse desde motivaciones supuestamente legítimas; entre otras, la de salvaguardar la paz social mediante esa represión que trata de mantenernos alejados de la barbarie. Intrínseca a esa prerrogativa del Estado está la facultad de obligar a sus ciudadanos a secundar esa violencia, aportando su sufrimiento e incluso su propia vida y la de sus seres queridos. El cine, reflejo de todas las facetas que engloba la...

This collection of fifty-seven essays, manifestos, and other prose writings on literature, painting, music, and cinema is drawn from various "little magazines" published in Spain from 1919-1930. This volume, edited by Paul Ilie, is intended to serve as a tool with which to break new ground in the study of the Spanish vanguard.