1.

Record Nr.

UNISALENTO991002863339707536

Autore

Decret, François

Titolo

Essais sur l'Eglise Manichéenne en Afrique du Nord et à Rome au temps de saint Augustin : Recueil d'études / F rançois Decret

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Roma : Institutum Patristicum "Augustinianum", 1995

Descrizione fisica

289 p. ; 24 cm

Collana

Studia Ephemeridis ʼAugustinianum' ; 47

Lingua di pubblicazione

Francese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910782405503321

Autore

Kelly Patty

Titolo

Lydia's Open Door : Inside Mexico's Most Modern Brothel / / Patty Kelly

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2008]

©2008

ISBN

1-281-38573-5

0-520-94161-6

Edizione

[Reprint 2019]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (296 p.)

Disciplina

306.74/2097275

Soggetti

Prostitutes

Tuxtla Gutie ́rrez

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction -- ONE. Modern Sex in a Modern City -- TWO. Hidden in Plain Sight -- THREE. Inside the Galactic Zone -- FOUR. Convergence -- FIVE. "It Began Innocently" -- SIX. Sellers and Buyers -- SEVEN. The Secrets We Keep -- EIGHT. Final Thoughts -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography --



Index

Sommario/riassunto

Examines the lives of the women who work in the Zona Galactica, a state-run brothel in Chiapas' capital city. By delving into lives that would otherwise go unremarked, this book documents the modernization of the sex industry during the neoliberal era in the city of Tuxtla Gutierrez.

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910815984003321

Titolo

Colour studies : a broad spectrum / / edited by Wendy Anderson, University of Glasgow [and three others]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , [2014]

©2014

ISBN

90-272-6919-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (431 p.)

Disciplina

401.43

Soggetti

Color

Colors, Words for

Language and culture

Color - Psychological aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"The contributions to this volume are based on papers and posters presented at the 'Progress in Colour Studies 2012' conference (PICS12), held at the University of Glasgow, Scotland, from 10 to 13 July 2012."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Colour Studies; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Section I. Prehistoric colour semantics; Prehistoric colour semantics: A contradiction in terms; 1. Introduction ; 2. Lexical form ; 3. Semantic content ; 4. Core concepts and core vocabulary ; 5. The evolutionary sequence ; 6. Cognates ; 7. The situation so far ; 8. Prototypes ; 9. Archaeology and colour prototypes ; 10. Anthropology and colour concepts ; 11. Art and colour terms ; 12. The earliest recorded Indo-European colour terms ; 13.



Conclusion ; References

Section II. Colour and linguisticsPreface to Section II; Towards a historical and cultural atlas of colour terms in the Near East; 1. Introduction ; 2. Brightness versus hue ; 3. The data ; 4. The grue (green+blue) category in contemporary Aramaic ; 5. Conclusion ; References ; The evolution of GRUE: Evidence for a new colour term in the language of the Himba; 1. Introduction ; 2. Experiment 1: colour list task ; 2.1 Introduction ; 2.2 Method ; 2.3 Results ; 2.4 Discussion ; 3. Experiment 2: colour naming task ; 3.1 Introduction ; 3.2 Method ; 3.3 Results ; 3.4 Discussion

4. General discussion Acknowledgements ; References ; Linguistic categorization of blue in Standard Italian; 1. Background and objectives ; 2. Methodology ; 3. A description of the subjects ; 4. Results and discussion ; 4.1 The list and colour-naming tasks ; 4.2 Free-sorting and best-example tasks ; 4.3 Collocation-association task and reference to objects ; 5. Discussion ; Acknowledgements ; References ; From blood to worms: The semantic evolution of a Portuguese colour term; 1. Introduction ; 2. Portuguese roxo and vermelho ; 3. Evidence and timeline of semantic change

4. Processes of change 4.1 The internal process ; 4.2 The external processes (Iberian dyeing trade) ; 5. Conclusion ; References ; The motivational analysis of some Finnic colour terms; 1. Introduction ; 2. Ruskea ; 3. Raudjas ; 4. Lepp ; 5. Leet ; 6. Paat ; 7. Conclusion ; References ; Her blue eyes are red: An idealized cognitive model of conceptual color metonymy in English; 1. Introduction ; 1.1 Activating metonymy for color conceptualization ; 1.2 Definition and discernment of conceptual metonymy ; 1.3 Phrasing and definition ; 1.4 Discernment of conceptual metonymy

1.5 Conceptual metonymy and image schemas 2. Past research on conceptual metonymy ; 3. Corpus-based analysis ; 3.1 Methodology ; 3.2 Results ; 4. Discussion of conceptual color metonymy ; 5. Conclusion ; Acknowledgements ; References ; The spread of red in the Historical Thesaurus of English; 1. Introduction ; 2. The problem of pink ; 3. The rise of red ; 3.1 The effect of pink on red ; 4. red and BCC sub-category size variance ; 5. The salience of red ; 5.1 Back to BCCs ; 6. Conclusion ; References ; A metaphorical spectrum: Surveying colour terms in English; 1. The ubiquity of colour terms

2. Mapping Metaphor with the Historical Thesaurus

Sommario/riassunto

The Jacobean artificial light - candlelight - was as important to the playwright as lighting effects are to a modern-day designer. This chapter explores the recreation of candlelight using a safe alternative, the most modern of technology and the future of stage lighting: LEDs. In order to recreate the candlelight of Shakespeare's stage, the research is categorized into three sections: replicating the Jacobean stage accurately, achieving a colour match for the tallow candles using LEDs and creating the ambience and "flicker" a candle emits. This is then applied practically and allowed a play t