This paper examines the signifying mechanism of gift-giving in ancient China from the perspective of semiotic rhetoric,aiming to answer the question of what can be regarded as li(roughly meaning ceremony,rite,courtesy...
supported by the grant from the National Social Science Fund of China(Grant No.:19BGL262).
In e-commerce live streaming,sellers choose the most suitable streamers to endorse their products.The streamer introduces the main functions of the goods,organizes marketing activities,improves the consumers’shopping...
The existence of“taboo”is ubiquitous in all cultur es.Since language and culture are closely related to each other.This article aims to make a comparative study of taboos in gift-giving by taking intercultural commu...
Besides attitude,language and behavior,gift-giving can also express politeness toward people and companies.Through exchanging gifts,people come to know each other and strengthen understanding and friendship,which will...
This study compares the practice of gift-giving between Chinese and Germans from the perspective of intercultural communication. Starting from two real cases which resemble each other but set in sharply different cult...
On January 29,the Hurun Research Institute released the Hurun Best of the Best Awards 2015 in Beijing,based on the results of the Hurun Report Chinese Luxury Consumer Survey2015.This is the eleventh consecutive year H...
Males of the nursery web spider Pisaura mirabil usually offer an insect prey wrapped in white silk as a nuptial gift to facilitate copulation. Males exploit female foraging preferences in a sexual context as females f...
We thank Fernando Costa,Macarena Gonzalez,Anita Aisenberg,Soledad Ghione,Rodrigo Postiglioni and Carlos Toscano-Gadea for their help in the collection of spiders.We thank Nicolas Grasso and Wanda Iriarte for kindly helping with the techniques and software images.We also would like to thank Fernando Costa for the constructive discussions,Estefania Stanley and Ted Henderson for the English corrections and 3 anonymous referees for valuable comments on the manuscript.
Preliminary genetic studies in Trechaleidae spider family show high variation in sex chromosomes and high heterocigocity,suggesting high chromatin plasticity.The trechaleids Paratrechalea ornata,Trechalea bucculenta a...