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Lola helps her neighbor Carmela uncover the truth behind the suspicious suicide of Carmela's boyfriend, a millionaire widower.
Finales de los 80. Madrid. Una tarde de domingo. Un cafe emblematico de la ciudad repleto de gente. Una mesa ocupada por una mujer. Un hombre que le pregunta si puede sentarse en una silla libre que hay junto a ella. Y, una vez sentado, el desprevenido interlocutor se encuentra envuelto en un torrente de palabras, en una suerte de catarsis de su desconocida y ocasional companera de mesa que, de manera desgarrada a veces, liviana y jocosa otras, lo envuelve con su monologo para ir, pagina tras pagina, analizando, con la precision y rigor de un medico forense, la condicion existencial de aquellos que no caben en esta sociedad, como indica el grito que da titulo a la novela."
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Cities are both real and imaginary places whose identity is dependent on their distinctive heritage: a network of historically transmitted cultural resources. The essays in this volume, which originate from a lecture series at the Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies, University of London, explore the complex and multi-layered identities of European cities. Themes that run through the essays include: nostalgia for a grander past; location between Eastern and Western ideologies, religions and cultures; and the fluidity and palimpsest quality of city identity. Not only does the book provide different thematic angles and a variety of approaches to the investigation of city identity, it also emphasizes the importance of diverse cultural components. The essays presented here discuss cultural forms as various as music, architecture, literature, journalism, philosophy, television, film, myths, urban planning and the naming of streets.
In the last 25 years foreign language teaching has been able to increase its efficiency through an orientation towards authentic language materials, pragmatic language functions and interactive learning methods. However, so far foreign language teaching has lacked a sufficiently strong theoretical framework to support the teaching of language in all its aspects. Arguably, such a linguistic theory has to be usage-based and cognition-oriented. Since cognitive linguistics - and especially cognitive grammar - is concerned with conceptual issues against the larger background of human cognition and because it is based on actual language use, it becomes a powerful tool for dealing adequately with t...
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This book on applied linguistics presents new trends and improvements on the teaching of Spanish. It deals with two major scopes in the field of linguistics that have a crucial role in the development of language teaching in general and of the teaching of Spanish in particular: Interaction and Grammar. The topics chosen coincide with the areas in which the communicative approach to language teaching, dominant in European and American language programs since the 1970s and 80s, has been the object of most revision. In its first part, the book appeals both to pragmatics and to discourse analysis to research the specifics of classroom discourse and classroom interaction, as well as the differenc...
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Lectura graduada para el aprendizaje del español como lengua extranjera. Nivel básico-intermedio (A2+).