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Pueblos is a complete Intermediate Spanish program that systematically presents culture within the context of the historical and political forces that have shaped and continue to shape the Spanish-speaking world. Grammar, vocabulary, and content are merged in a way that emphasizes communication, cultures, comparisons, connections and communities and a comprehensive historic-to-contemporary view of the Spanish-speaking populations and civilizations. The word pueblos refers to places, settlements, civilizations, and nations, but also to groups of people who speak Spanish. Pueblos focuses on how ...

Designed to meet the needs of the high school and undergraduate market for texts in the Spanish language

* 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...

En esta obra el autor analiza el papel de la etimología en el estudio del vocabulario de las lenguas. También estudia la historia del español exponiendo la herencia que diversas lenguas le legaron a lo largo de los siglos, de las prerromanas a las modernas, poniendo especial atención al español de México. El autor establece un puente entre lengua y cultura, y toca otros temas como el uso y desuso de vocabulario, las diferentes ideologías lingüísticas y su actitud hacia los extranjerismos, y la importancia de usar el español como lengua de conocimiento.