Download or read book Words of Love Piropos written by Carla Zarebska and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2005-12-29 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here's an irresistible little book with a whole lot of heart. In Mexico, there is a rich heritage of folk endearments to compliment that special someone (or maybe that someone you wish was special). Words of Love collects the most charming and colorful of these expressions, or piropos, along with other local romantic proverbs and wisdom, each printed in Spanish and English. Wittily capturing both the joys and the agonies of love, this delightfully illustrated ode to amantes is the perfect gift for those who are courting or well on their way to a golden anniversary.
Download or read book Fat in Four Cultures written by Cindi SturtzSreetharan and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique comparative ethnography uses a systematic and nuanced approach to delve into the myriad meanings of being fat within and across different global sites.
Download or read book Love Language written by Ilan Stavans and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surprising readers again and again, cultural critic Ilan Stavans creates a dialogue with Vernica Albin to explore love in its many variations.
Download or read book The Handbook of Communication in Cross cultural Perspective written by Donal Carbaugh and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-08-19 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook brings together 26 ethnographic research reports from around the world about communication. The studies explore 13 languages from 17 countries across 6 continents. Together, the studies examine, through cultural analyses, communication practices in cross-cultural perspective. In doing so, and as a global community of scholars, the studies explore the diversity in ways communication is understood around the world, examine specific cultural traditions in the study of communication, and thus inform readers about the range of ways communication is understood around the world. Some of the communication practices explored include complaining, hate speech, irreverence, respect, and uses of the mobile phone. The focus of the handbook, however, is dual in that it brings into view both communication as an academic discipline and its use to unveil culturally situated practices. By attending to communication in these ways, as a discipline and a specific practice, the handbook is focused on, and will be an authoritative resource for understanding communication in cross-cultural perspective. Designed at the nexus of various intellectual traditions such as the ethnography of communication, linguistic ethnography, and cultural approaches to discourse, the handbook employs, then, a general approach which, when used, understands communication in its particular cultural scenes and communities.
Download or read book One Hundred Names for Love written by Diane Ackerman and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2012-03-27 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No other writer can blend the science of the brain with the love of language like Diane Ackerman. In this extraordinary memoir, she opens a window into the experience of wordlessness--the language paralysis called aphasia. In narrating the recovery of her husband, Paul West, from a stroke that reduced his vast vocabulary to a single syllable, she evokes the joy and mystery of the brain's ability to find and connect words. Deeply rewarding to readers of all kinds, Ackerman has given us a literary love story, accessible insight into the science and medicine of brain injury, and invaluable spiritual sustenance in the face of life's myriad physical sufferings.
Download or read book Islands Under Fire written by Kevin McCarey and published by Square One Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2016-08-02 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A portrait of an often overlooked part of America—Puerto Rico and the Spanish Virgin Islands—this is the little-known story of how the U.S. government, in particular the Navy, almost destroyed a pristine coral reef to provide a target for gunners. The author’s true and humorous account of his role in this sometimes bizarre tale reveals how locals, politicos, and mariners came together to save a coral reef from certain destruction, and how the need to protect the fragile marine environment can bring meaning and direction to anyone’s life, young or old. The conservation efforts represent a perfect example of what highly motivated citizens and political leaders can achieve when taking action to protect what they love. The author, hired as captain of a small research vessel, led the underwater search for evidence of the coral reef damage that would be used to convince the U.S. government to stop its bombardment of the island. While he did not have a direct role in the legal activities of Washington, DC, his efforts to collect factual evidence that would be used by the lawyers proved to be of immeasurable importance. His role enabled the Culebrans, the residents of this tranquil island paradise, to gather proof of the destruction, which ultimately convinced everyone—including President Nixon—to stop the carnage. This triumphant tale serves as an inspiration for anyone wanting to make a difference in environmental conservation. Video link about the title https://vimeo.com/115834587
Download or read book Pragmatics written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book My Nerves Are Bad written by Sana Loue and published by Vanderbilt University Press. This book was released on 2011-06-11 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over a two-year period, author Sana Loue and her research team followed the lives of fifty-three Puerto Rican women living with severe mental illness as they coped with daily challenges in the areas of family, romantic relationships, employment, social services, substance use, and health care. The team interviewed the women and shadowed them at their homes, churches, schools, physicians' offices, family events, and other occasions in order to understand how their mental illness, their gender, their language, and their culture affected their relationships with others, their understandings of their own situations, and their hopes for themselves and their families. Sana Loue lets us see the remarkable strength of many of the women and hear in their own words about their efforts to survive, despite long histories of childhood physical and sexual abuse, partner violence, substance use, poverty, and severe mental illness. We also witness the violence that surrounds them and the HIV risk that becomes a part of their lives in their efforts to survive economically and emotionally.
Download or read book Parsing through Customs written by Alan Dundes and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2003-03-28 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In these stimulating essays, Alan Dundes presents a history of psychoanalytic studies of folklore while also showing how folklore methodology can be used to clarify and validate psychoanalytic theory. Dundes’ work is unique in its symbolic analysis of the ordinary imagination. His data are children’s games, folktales, everyday speech, cultural metaphors for power and prestige, and rituals associated with childbirth.
Download or read book Latino Fiction and the Modernist Imagination written by John S. Christie and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-08-08 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. The aim of this book is to approach Latino fiction from a wider perspective, and to cross the standard critical boundaries between Latino groups in order to focus upon the literary language of a collection of complicated novels and stories.
Download or read book Fiesta for the Hispanic Soul written by Ruben Soto and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2003-12 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ruben Soto shares some of his personal stories, poems, and tales that will touch your heart. Soto offers you hope, encouragement, peace for your soul, and taking pride in being Hispanic in today's America. Latinos are now America's largest minority group, and they come from different and diverse backgrounds. They have a unique culture, and the extended family plays a very important role in their daily lives. This book will make you see Hispanics in a totally different way, and show you how they are changing our nation. It celebrates the Hispanic culture of today. It celebrates the America of today. It's fiesta time in America! So get ready to take your heart to places it's never been before!
Download or read book In Strangers Arms written by Beatriz Dujovne and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2011-09-07 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tango is easily the most iconic dance of the last century, its images as familiar as an old friend. But are they the whole story? Peeling back the poster propaganda that has always characterized the tango publicly, this intimate study shows the invisible heart of the dance and the culture that raised it. Drawing on direct experience and conversations with dancers, it reveals much about the role of the tango in Argentinean culture. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.
Download or read book Teaching Culture written by H. Ned Seelye and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teaching Cultureprovides practical strategies for integrating language and culture study and outlines six goals for cultural instruction. Sample learning units, abundant activities, cultural mini-dramas, and student performance objectives help teachers illustrate how the cultural context of communication is vital to understanding the message.
Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 996 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book CultureShock Costa Rica written by Claire Wallerstein and published by Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd. This book was released on 2010-08-15 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Politeness Impoliteness Divide written by Saida Anssari-Naim and published by Universitat de València. This book was released on 2016-06-13 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Madre Perilous Journeys with a Spanish Noun written by Elizabeth Bakewell and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2011 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How could madre mean whore as much as virgin? What happens to the ninety-nine madres when one father enters the room and they become a group of padres? And why can't a bien educada woman in Mexico say the word madre without raising eyebrows? --
