DEL PERGAMINO A LA CINTA DE OCHO MILÍMETROS

Impartial, modern, and friendly, this book introduces readers to the civilization and culture of Latin America-- from the most obscure beginnings to the present--and at the same time provides them with opportunities to improve their listening, speaking and writing skills. Comprehensive and chronological in approach, it offers well-researched coverage that goes beyond historical facts to include aspects of modern interest, sociology, economy, politics, philosophy, literature, arts, and communication. It covers the traditions in all of Spanish America--"Mesoamerica" and the Caribbean, as well...

The contributions gathered in this volume investigate the impact of shared knowledge on linguistic structure—whether shared knowledge determines the linguistic form or a given linguistic structure imposes a specific set of information. From an Ibero-Romance perspective, this book supports the necessity of a transversal approach to the grammar/pragmatics interaction.

Seminar paper del año 2013 en eltema Romanística - Español, literatura, cultura general, Nota: 1,3, Universität Leipzig (Institut für Romanistik), Materia: Spanische Varietätenlinguistik, Idioma: Español, Resumen: Die vorliegende Arbeit behandelt die allgemeinen Charakteristika des Spanischen in Südamerika mit dem Fokus auf Kolumbien. Betrachtet werden hierzu Phonetik und Phonologie, Morphologie sowie Lexik. Im praktischen Teil wurde eine Umfrage durchgeführt über die bekanntesten Charakteristika des kolumbianischen Spanischen.

What cities were there in early 16th-century Spain? With how many inhabitants? Were they fortified? And how many leagues apart were they? Those are the questions that Ferdinand Columbus tried to answer in his Vocabulary containing the names of the places and kingdoms of Spain. The present edition reconstructs the "cosmographic" endeavor of Christopher Columbus’ youngest son based on two codices from the Biblioteca Capitular y Colombina of Seville.