Language Studies at the UTM Library

El Diccionario de la RAE es la obra de referencia para más de 500 millones de hablantes de español en todo el mundo.

Authoritative and up-to-date, this fourth edition of the Pocket Oxford Spanish Dictionary covers over 90,000 words and phrases, and 130,000 translations of contemporary Spanish and English.

Provides a list of the 5,000 most commonly used words in the language, based on a twenty million word corpus evenly divided between spoken, fiction and non-fiction texts from both Spain and Latin America.

Gramática fundamental del español abarca una amplia gama de temas relacionados con la morfología, la sintaxis y la escritura del español.

Introduces intermediate to advanced students of Spanish to the main grammatical features of the language in a way that emphasizes the social underpinnings of language.

Palabras clave para organizar textos en españolse fundamenta en el uso de la lengua en contextos de comunicación real. El libro puede utilizarse de manera independiente o como material de clase.

The book provides students with a detailed and accurate yet accessible introduction to Spanish phonetics and phonology.

Diccionario Bilingüe de Metáforas y Metonimias Científico-Técnicas presents the extensive range of metaphoric and metonymic terms and expressions that are commonly used within the fields of science, engineering, architecture and sports science.

El español es la cuarta lengua más hablada en el mundo.

Variedades de la lengua española ofrece un panorama general de la variación dialectal y sociolingüística en el espacio hispanohablante.

Guía práctica de pragmática del español es un texto introductorio en español.

Este libro provoca una reflexion en torno al uso y las posibilidades de la lengua espanola en los medios de comunicacion masiva.

This practical text is specifically tailored for advanced undergraduate and graduate students with little or no background in linguistics.

Chapters cover in detail both pragmatic foundations (e.g. speech act theory, implicature and relevance, deixis) and interfaces with other concepts, including: * Discourse * Variation; Culture and interculture * (Im)politeness; Humor * Learning contexts and teaching * Technology

Idiomatic expressions are the 'salt and pepper' of any language. They give Spanish its colour and imagery, its richness and variety.

Gives an interdisciplinary overview of Spanish culture and society, and offers directions for further reading.

Provides insights into recent cultural and political developments within Spain, including the cultures of Catalonia, Galicia and the Basque country.

Spanish drama: History and criticism.

A comprehensive overview of Spanish history from the Napoleonic era to the present day.

With essays on politics and government, family and daily life, religion, nobles and court culture, birth and death, intellectual currents, ethnic groups, the plastic arts, literature, popular culture, law courts, women, literacy, libraries, civic ritual, illness, money, notions of community, philosophy and law, science, colonial empire, and historiography, it offers breath-taking scope.

The Handbook introduces Spanish politics to an international audience of scholars and practitioners.

For students of American studies, the Social Sciences, and the Humanities. The volume is organized around seven critical domains in Chicana/o Studies.

The handbook traces the emergence of Latino studies as a vibrant and interdisciplinary field of research starting in the 1980s.