Tales of Hi and Bye : Greeting and Parting Rituals Around the World
Book Details
Format
Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0521117542
ISBN-13
9780521117548
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
AU
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Oct 27th, 2009
Print length
262 Pages
Weight
384 grams
Dimensions
20.00 x 13.90 x 2.10 cms
Product Classification:
Sociolinguistics
Ksh 4,500.00
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All around the world, people say hi and bye in innumerable languages and countless ways. Tales of Hi and Bye provides a delightful, witty, and intriguing insight into the sometimes strange and often wonderful customs associated with greeting and farewell rituals around the world.
We do it over and over again, day after day, and never seem to get enough of it. Albanians do it. Zulus do it. Movie stars and plumbers do it. All around the world, people say hi and bye in innumerable languages and countless ways: they wave and bow and curtsey and shake hands and rub noses and fist-bump and mwah-mwah and perform a vast array of greeting and farewell rituals, so common and natural that no-one stops to notice … Tales of Hi and Bye provides a delightful, witty, and intriguing insight into the sometimes strange and often wonderful customs associated with an ordinary, everyday event. For more information, book extracts and cartoons visit www.talesofhiandbye.com
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