Spanish C1 · Day 37
Day 37: Decrecimiento y poscrecimiento — Argument frames: ordering devices (part 1)
What you'll learn
- Grammar: Argument frames: ordering devices (part 1)
- Reading: Prosperidad sin expansión: el decrecimiento y el poscrecimiento como cambio de paradigma
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Grammar point: Argument frames: ordering devices (part 1)
At C1, you often need to organize a complex argument into clearly separated strands, rather than stacking ideas in a loose sequence. The correlative pair «por un lado…, por otro (lado)…» is an excellent tool for this, allowing you to mark two axes of the same issue in a formal and precise manner. The core meaning is "on the one hand...
Key vocabulary (8 of 32 words)
- la economía del poscrecimiento – post-growth economics
- el movimiento decrecentista – degrowth movement
- el imperativo del crecimiento – growth imperative/compulsion
- el consumo de recursos – resource consumption
- la estrategia de suficiencia – sufficiency strategy
- el modelo económico convencional – conventional economic model
- el indicador de prosperidad – prosperity indicator
- la economía del bien común – economy for the common good
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