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Excerpt from Coa, Jerga de los Delincuentes Chilenos: Estudio y Vocabulario Las manifestaciones primarias de las jergas hay que buscarlas en los apodos, que nacen mu chas veces enel seno de la familia. No hay duda que toda colectividad, toda aso ciación ...propende a tener una jerga, en la cual sus individuos gustan de entenderse, especial mente delante de extraños, por cautela algunas veces, por comodidad otras, y a falta de razones más calificadas, por divertirse con la perplejidad de los no iniciados. A procurarse estos modos de decir los lleva, un poco inconso1entemente. About the...

Caló Orbis examines a Chicano language variety from a historical, social, ideological, and theoretical framework. It gathers information, on how the urban Chicano often reduces his/her experience into thematic contents of family, home, employment, education, religion. This book takes the reader into a semiotic point of view in order to bring a deeper awareness of the symbolic activity between language style and the speaker's attitude toward the urban experience. The perspective maintained is epistemological in the broadest sense, in that the inquiry includes lexical, poetical, philosophical...

In Mexico, a mixture of many cultures, the tradition of oral literature is very prominent & quite varied. These tales which are passed on from generation to generation refer to history, beliefs, myths & religion & continue the culture in which they were created. In this volume you will find the stories & legends from 12 indigenous groups & those from 2 cities with mixed population. This is an enchanting anthology which will help the reader understand the development of Mexican culture.

Cuban intellectual Eliades Acosta examines the rise of fascism in 1930s Europe; the massive anti-fascist movements and cultural conferences organised to defeat it; and how the worldwide anti-fascist struggle has progressed and been set back through the 20th century.