Tok Pisin A Comprehensive Guide
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Tok Pisin: A Comprehensive Guide
Author: Pasquale De Marco
language: en
Publisher: Pasquale De Marco
Release Date: 2025-07-13
Embark on a linguistic adventure with "Tok Pisin: A Comprehensive Guide," your ultimate companion to mastering this vibrant language spoken in Papua New Guinea and beyond. This comprehensive guidebook is carefully crafted to provide you with the essential knowledge and skills to navigate the intricacies of Tok Pisin, from its captivating history and diverse dialects to its rich vocabulary and cultural nuances. Uncover the secrets of Tok Pisin pronunciation and spelling, unlocking the mysteries of its unique sounds and orthography. Delve into the complexities of its grammar, mastering the art of sentence structure, verb conjugations, and expressing yourself with precision and clarity. Explore the colorful tapestry of Tok Pisin vocabulary, discovering the hidden gems of everyday phrases, idiomatic expressions, and cultural references that bring this language to life. Engage with the vibrant culinary scene of Papua New Guinea, learning the names of traditional dishes and ingredients in Tok Pisin. Embark on a journey through the natural world, expanding your vocabulary with terms for plants, animals, and the breathtaking landscapes of this diverse region. Prepare yourself for meaningful interactions with locals as you navigate the social and cultural intricacies of Tok Pisin. Learn the art of greeting and introducing yourself, ensuring that you make a positive and lasting impression. Discover the nuances of Tok Pisin etiquette, ensuring that you interact with respect and sensitivity. Unleash your storytelling prowess as you delve into the rich tradition of Tok Pisin storytelling, crafting narratives that captivate and entertain. Engage in lively debates on current events and issues, expressing your opinions and perspectives with confidence and clarity. Whether you're a traveler seeking authentic connections, a business professional seeking to expand your horizons, or simply a language enthusiast captivated by the beauty of Tok Pisin, this comprehensive guide will empower you to unlock the secrets of this remarkable language and immerse yourself in the vibrant culture of Papua New Guinea. If you like this book, write a review!
The Complete Guide to National Symbols and Emblems
Author: James B. Minahan
language: en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date: 2009-12-23
These two volumes offer an unprecedented collection of flags, seals, and symbols used every day around the world. In today's global society it is necessary to recognize and identify not only our own symbols, but symbols from nations and territories far removed from home. Empowering readers to identify symbols in daily use all over the world, The Complete Guide to National Symbols and Emblems features an extensive collection of international symbols and cultural emblems never before compiled in such a concise and easy-to-use work. It is inclusive of all the UN member states and some of the most prominent stateless nations. This refreshing alternative to other commonly used sites blends both the political and cultural, including not only flags, national seals, and national anthems, but also foods and recipes, national heroes, sports teams, festivals, and pivotal events that figure in the formation of national identity. This versatile source will prove valuable to a wide audience, benefiting not only high school and undergraduate student researchers, but international businesses, journalists, and government offices.
The Global Encyclopaedia of Informality, Volume 1
Alena Ledeneva invites you on a voyage of discovery, to explore society’s open secrets, unwritten rules and know-how practices. Broadly defined as ‘ways of getting things done’, these invisible yet powerful informal practices tend to escape articulation in official discourse. They include emotion-driven exchanges of gifts or favours and tributes for services, interest-driven know-how (from informal welfare to informal employment and entrepreneurship), identity-driven practices of solidarity, and power-driven forms of co-optation and control. The paradox, or not, of the invisibility of these informal practices is their ubiquity. Expertly practised by insiders but often hidden from outsiders, informal practices are, as this book shows, deeply rooted all over the world, yet underestimated in policy. Entries from the five continents presented in this volume are samples of the truly global and ever-growing collection, made possible by a remarkable collaboration of over 200 scholars across disciplines and area studies. By mapping the grey zones, blurred boundaries, types of ambivalence and contexts of complexity, this book creates the first Global Map of Informality. The accompanying database is searchable by region, keyword or type of practice, so do explore what works, how, where and why! Praise for The Global Encyclopaedia of Informality ‘The Global Encyclopaedia of Informality represents the beginning of a new era in informality studies. With its wealth of information, diversity, scope, theoretical innovation and artistic skill, this collection touches on all the aspects of social and cultural complexity that need to be integrated into policy thinking.’ Predrag Cveti?anin, Centre for Empirical Cultural Studies of South-East Europe, Belgrade, Serbia ‘This is a monumental achievement – an indispensable reference for anyone in the social sciences interested in informality.’ Martin Holbraad, Professor of Social Anthropology, UCL, and editor-in-chief of Social Analysis ‘This impressive work helps us understand our complex times by showing how power develops through informal practices, mobilizing emotional, cognitive and relational mechanisms in strategies of survival, but also of camouflage and governance.’ Donatella della Porta, Director of Centre of Social Movements Studies, Scuola normale superiore, Firenze, Italy ‘An impressive, informative, and intriguing collection. With evident passion and patience, the team of 250 researchers insightfully portrays the multiplicity of informal and often invisible expressions of human interdependence.’ Subi Rangan, Professor of Strategy and Management, INSEAD, Fontainebleau, France ‘This compendium of terms used in different cultures to express aspects of informal economy provides a unique supplement to studies of a major (yet understated by academic economics) social issue. It will be of key significance for in-depth teaching of sociology, economics and history.’ Teodor Shanin, OBE Professor and President of the Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences ‘Modern states have sought to curb, control and subdue informality. The entries in the Global Encyclopaedia demonstrate the endurance of informality over such efforts. More recently, the rise and political success of anti-establishment movements in so many parts of the world is a wide-ranging challenge and delegitimisation of national and transnational formal institutions of governance. Understanding the perceived shortcomings of formal institutions and the appeal of anti-establishment movements must at least in part be informed by a study of informality and its networks. This Encyclopaedia is essential reading if we wish to understand and engage with these challenges of our age.’ Fredrik Galtung, Chairman, Integrity Action