AND-languages and WITH-languages

Metacognitive (Rending) Strategies Across Languages and Techniques

efl students gender and socioeconomic status: the use of politeness strategies in the first and second languages

within the components of communicative competence, a special emphasis is put on the “rules of politeness,” specifically the politeness strategies (brown and levinson, 1978) that speakers deploy when performing the request speech act. this is because the degree of imposition that making a request places upon one’s interlocutor(s) has been seen to be influenced by several factors among which, as ...

Transculturation and Multilingual Lives: Writing between Languages and Cultures

This paper looks at the issues of transculturation as explored in auto and semi-autobiographical accounts of linguistic and cultural transitions. The paper also addresses a number of questions about the structure of these texts, the authors’ linguistic competences, as well as questions about the theoretical and conceptual tool which may help us to discuss the issues the writers are reflecting o...

Iranian Languages as Gardens

Petri Net DAG Languages and Regular Tree Languages with Synchronization

A true-concurrency semantics is often given via pomsets. A pomset is an abstract directed acyclic graph that is in addition transitive: any grandson of a node is also a son of that node. We will drop this rather artificial transitive property in this paper and research abstract directed acyclic graphs (dags) as a true-concurrency semantics for Petri nets and their relation to regular languages ...