This dissertation investigates the construction of regional identities from the infancy representations verified in Contos gauchescos and Lendas do Sul, by João Simões Lopes Neto. For that, there have been discussions about ...

This is a study on the existing relation between lexis and culture. The names of dishes found in 4 menus of restaurants in Gramado (RS) which have their practices aimed at tourism are analysed. We take culture as a system ...

This essay will try to promote a study about the language used in The Hour of The Star, by Clarice Lispector. A special attention will be given to the use of the metaphor as a way of understanding the many interpretations ...

Linguistic contacts between the national official language, Portuguese, and the ones from migration settlements are due to linguistic and cultural diversity presents in Brazil, leading to a linguistic and cultural exchange ...

This study analyzes the religious lyrical aspect of three Marian songs, collected from the book Cancioneiro Popular do Imigrante Italiano na Região de Colonização Italiana, and also intends to clarify, using metaphors and ...

The aim of this research on radio´s role in preserving a language is to discover why thousands of people still sintonize radio programmes transmitted in talian dialect in the Region of Serra Gaúcha, Rio Grande do Sul State, ...

The following study recognizes the traditional singing and the popular songs as pertinent elements of the culture of the Italian immigration to the Northeast of Rio Grande do Sul and attempts at revealing them under the ...

The school environment is a place where culture is revealed by the integration of different values. This study aims at analyzing cultural values that are disclosed in adolescents written productions assigned in drama ...

Aiming at specifying the relation between metaphor and culture, this investigation approaches universality and variation in the metaphorical and metonymyal conceptualization of happiness. The analysis is made from data ...