Trampantojos

This book examines the resources that speakers employ when building conversations. These resources contribute to overall coherence and cohesion, which speakers create and maintain interactively as they build on each other s contributions. The study is cross-linguistic, drawing on parallel corpora of task-oriented dialogues between dyads of native speakers of English and Spanish. The framework of the investigation is the analysis of speech genres and their staging; the analysis shows that each stage in the dialogues exhibits different thematic, rhetorical, and cohesive relations. The main...

Thirteen-year-old Marta decides to write a diary about the end of the school year, life with parents who do not understand her, a brother she cannot stand, and her grandmother, and her summer search for adventure--or at least amusement.

The collection of the Gold Museum of the Banco de la República de Colombia—one of the most impressive gold collections in the world—is explored in this anthropological commemoration of the goldwork mastery of indigenous peoples. An essential part of the pre-Colombian world, gold was considered by natives to be a sacred element and was used by artisans to create offerings presented by Shamans to the Gods as both prayerful sacrifices and symbols of gratitude. La colección del Museo del Oro del Banco de la República de Colombia—una de las colecciones de oro más importantes del...

En este episodio de la vida de nuestros dos fantásticos hermanos, Juan enseña a Tolola cómo reciclar. Al principio, Tolola apilará todos los rollos de papel de water de su casa para mandarlos a reciclar. Al poco, Juan le explicará que, para respetar el medio ambiente, primero se debe reducir el consumo, luego reutilizar los materiales y, al final, reciclar. Gracias a Juan, Tolola se convertirá en una campeona del reciclaje junto a toda su clase.