Beyond De-Westernization: Transcultural Communication Studies Perspectives From the Global South

Communication Strategies Revisited: Looking beyond Interactional and Psycholinguistic Perspectives

Second language (L2) communication strategies (CSs) have traditionally been dealt with through either interactional or psychological perspectives. However, this paper is a critical attempt to question the status of the particular kinds of psycholinguistic and interactional approaches that currently dominate the field of second language acquisition (SLA). In this way, it expands the significance...

Transcultural Perspectives on Eating Disorders

I t is commonplace that one man's meat is another man's poison. Since the fact of cultural variability is well known, this paper will not attempt to catalogue the range of eating phenomena that illustrate the diversity of human experience. Rather, we will focus on three seemingly bizarre and to us almost unthinkable phenomena and attempt to illuminate the human function of each. We will conside...

Historic perspectives from anthropology. Reflections proposed to Transcultural Nursing.

History brings together meanings related to earlier periods, being aware of the past as a panorama to reread the present. Madeleine Leininger presented in 1970 an implicit and respectful message to the Nursing Profession when introducing Nursing and Anthropology. Two Worlds to Blend. Implicitly: Nursing you disregard culture. This article shows the absence of the history of anthropology and of ...

Short Communication: Chromosome studies on the marine shrimp Penaeus (Fenneropenaeus) merguiensis from the Persian Gulf

Short Communication: Chromosome studies on the marine shrimp Penaeus (Fenneropenaeus) merguiensis from the Persian Gulf