CONCEPT RELIGION IN EURO-ENGLISH LYRIC TEXTS: COGNITIVE-DISCOURSIVE ASPECT

Religion in Taiwan How can religion without texts be transmitted ?

Writing Techniques in the English Love and Lyric Poems

In the poetry creation, poets use many different writing techniques. This paper expounds the image expressions in British love poems and lyrics from four aspects: description, symbolism, figure of speech and personification. Man has been singing for love since written language was invented. Love has been the eternal subject theme of poems and become perpetual singing. Many poets also worship na...

Concept-based Instruction and Teaching English Tense and Aspect to Iranian School Learners

The present study examines the role of Gal’perin’s Concept-based Instruction (CBI) as a pedagogical approach in teaching cognitive grammar-based (CG-based) concepts of tense and aspect to EFL students. Following the sociocultural theory of L2 Acquisition (SCT), arming L2 learners with scientific concepts can lead to L2 development by deepening their understanding and raising awareness of L2 str...

Paraphrasing Controlled English Texts

We discuss paraphrasing controlled English texts, by defining two fragments of Attempto Controlled English (ACE): Core ACE and NP ACE. We show that these fragments have features that one would usually expect from paraphrases. We also describe a tool that paraphrases ACE sentences into these fragments.

Lyric Mining: Word, Rhyme & Concept Co-occurrence Analysis

Computational creativity is one area of NLP which requires extensive analysis of large datasets. Laalalaa [1] framework for Lyric analysis and generation proposed a lyric analysis subsystem that required statistical analysis of Tamil lyrics. In this paper, we propose a data analysis model for words, rhymes and their usage in Tamil lyrics. The proposed analysis model extracts the root words from...