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Wiley proudly announces a new, brief version of our best-selling beginning Spanish textbook, Dicho y hecho. Shorter in scope, Dicho y hecho, Brief Edition will provide even more flexibility to fit a variety of course formats, without sacrificing the quality you’ve come to expect from the Dicho program. Dicho y hecho, Brief Edition provides students with abundant input, using new forms and structures, before moving them through guided practice to output. This empirically proven language teaching methodology, based on over 30 years of research, informs activity sequences throughout the...

In Mexico, a mixture of many cultures, the tradition of oral literature is very prominent & quite varied. These tales which are passed on from generation to generation refer to history, beliefs, myths & religion & continue the culture in which they were created. In this volume you will find the stories & legends from 12 indigenous groups & those from 2 cities with mixed population. This is an enchanting anthology which will help the reader understand the development of Mexican culture.

La pragmática es una disciplina nueva y floreciente. Se multiplican sus revistas, foros de discusión y no parece descabellado imaginar que pronto habrá departamentos universitarios y centros de investigación con ese nombre. Como toda disciplina nueva, una parte de su energía está dedicada a afirmar su autonomía y a precisar la propia metodología. En este volumen el lector podrá apreciar los esfuerzos de orientación analítica empeñados en clarificar los problemas filosóficos de fundamentación y también aquellos otros que la remiten a consideraciones éticas o trascendentales....

This study presents a corpus-based semasiologial and onomasiological analysis of the paradigm of adjectives and adverbs of accuracy. Looking specifically at justo / justamente, cabal / cabalmente, preciso / precisamente, and exacto / exactamente, it is above all concerned with the development of three pragmatic-discursive functions: focalization, affirmation, and reformulation.