: Cross-Cultural Universals of Affective Meaning . Charles E. Osgood, William H. May, Murray S. Miron.

History and Human Nature: Cross-cultural Universals and Cultural Relativities

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Looking across human societies reveals regularities in the languages that people speak and the concepts that they use. One explanation that has been proposed for these “cultural universals” is differences in the ease with which people learn particular languages and concepts. A difference in learnability means that languages and concepts possessing a particular property are more likely to be acc...

William Maley , Charles Sampford and Ramesh Thakur

As the Western world enters a new millennium, the seemingly settled parameters of a global politics based on the interaction of sovereign states appear increasingly threatened. On the one hand, processes of globalisation, especially in the economic sphere, have limited the freedom of action of those political elites who do not wish to bear the costs of pursuing autarkic policies. The debate bet...

Cross-Cultural Time Sensitivity in a Bilateral E-Negotiation System

For a long time, culture has been an influencing parameter in negotiations. Growth of international trades and business competitions has increased the importance of negotiations among countries and different cultures. Developing new technologies, particularly the use of artificial intelligence in electronic trading areas, has provided us with the application of intelligent agents to resolve cha...

Cross-Cultural Issues in Survey Translation: Translation of Meaning and Meaning of Translation

The paper outlines the translation process involved in the ORC Macro’s evaluation of the State Department’s International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP) in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, and Georgia. The IVLP is a long-running program in which foreign professionals and prospective leaders from all over the world have the opportunity to participate in funded short-term visits to the United Stat...